Melrose News

MELROSE — The roadway phase of the reconstruction of Lebanon Street will begin on Monday, April 6.

This is a state project, run by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. City officials have met with state officials, and they have given the town a project calendar with 100 percent completion by October 2015.

On Monday…

MELROSE — The Melrose Franklin School/ Early Childhood Center is coordinating a fundraiser to revamp and renew the current playground through a brick sale. These bricks can be engraved with residents’ own special message, dedication or business name and will be placed in the playground entrance.

Purchasing a brick for the ECC playground means…

MELROSE — Police dealt with a variety of reports between March 23 and March 30, including one where they had to arrest a 22-year-old Upham Street man for assault and battery after he and his brother allegedly got into a fight over a box of cereal.

Police said Jesse J. McCallum, 47 Upham St…

BOSTON – State Senator Jason Lewis and Representative Paul Brodeur announced last week that the City of Melrose has been awarded $79,353 in state road and bridge repair assistance as part of the Winter Recovery Assistance Program (WRAP) through the Massachusetts Governor’s Office.

A total of $30 million has been allocated through WRAP to assist…

MELROSE — An elderly woman was taken to Mass. General Hospital Monday night, March 23, after firefighters rescued her from a burning apartment in the Levi-Gould complex at 200 West Foster St.

Six other residents of the sixth floor of the six-story, 104-unit facility were taken to the lobby and to safety as smoke…

MELROSE — With the first day of spring here and the long winter of 2014-15 hopefully behind us, the impact of an ambitious educational plan is starting to rouse residents’ attention.

School administrators are proposing a spending package for the 2015-16 educational year that is about 11 percent more than the current allocation. In…

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MELROSE — Organizers of the Melrose Veterans Memory Project will be hosting a dinner on Sunday, March 22, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Sgt. Harold O. Young VFW Post on Chipman Avenue.

Tickets are $20 and include dinner, entertainment from members of the MHS Honors Chorus, presentations by MHS students who are part…

WAKEFIELD — The going may be a little slow tomorrow on Route 128 in Wakefield and Lynnfield.

According to the Mass. Department of Transportation, two lanes will be closed on I-95 northbound and southbound in Lynnfield and Wakefield between Exit 43 (Walnut Street) and Exit 38 (Route 28) between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m…