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POLICE ARE ASKING FOR the public’s help in identifying a man suspected in a home invasion on Wednesday morning. The man also is suspected in other attempted vehicle and house break-ins, such as the one shown above caught on home surveillance, and the theft of two cars in the neighborhood. (Photo Courtesy Melrose Police Department…

IN 2019, local Vietnam-era vets, were able to take a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial thanks to The Roll to Washington Committee.

MELROSE — The Roll to Washington Committee (R2DC) is providing Vietnam-era veterans from Melrose, Saugus and Wakefield with an all-expenses-paid four-day tour of Washington, D.C. this coming September as part of…

By BOB BURGESS and MAUREEN DOHERTY

WAKEFIELD – In a landslide decision Tuesday, voters in communities that send students to Northeast Metro Tech approved building a new $317 million, state-of-the-art vocational school.

Unofficially, a total of 9,036 voters in the 12 Northeast communities voted for a new school and 1,567 opposed it. In Melrose, over…