Melrose News

MELROSE — An important downtown business owner is telling Mayor Robert J. Dolan this week to forget dumping $5.3 million into Melrose High and instead concentrate on more parking spaces.

Steven Trulli, co-owner of Whittemore Hardware, writes in a letter that he disagrees with a new technology center at the city’s flagship school as the…

MELROSE — Police dealt with a couple more drug overdoses last week, made a heroin possession arrest, investigated some motor vehicle break-ins and responded to the usual wide variety of calls for assistance.

On Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, police were able to revive a woman and a man who had overdosed on…

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By HOLLY PIERCE and WENDY DENNIS

MELROSE — The Melrose/Wakefield Monthly Winter Farmers Market will hold its next market day on Sunday, March 15 from noon to 4 p.m. at Memorial Hall, 590 Main St. in Melrose, and will continue on with its final winter season market day on April 19.

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MELROSE — The Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church, 70 West Emerson St., will host a benefit show called “Folk Helping Folks” on Saturday, March 14.

You can shake off the winter blues with three of Melrose’s most accomplished musicians during a night of folk and blues at the UU Church. Performers will be Barnstar! frontman Mark…

By BOB BURGESS

MELROSE — After a couple fits and starts, Melrose is ready to continue its discussion on the future of its alcohol service in restaurants.

The city’s Liquor License Commission will hold a public hearing Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall on various proposals put forth by Mayor Robert J…

MELROSE — Mayor Robert J. Dolan has requested authorization from the Board of Aldermen for a $5.3 million…

U.S. Congresswoman Katherine Clark of Melrose was invited by fellow U.S. Rep. John Lewis to attend an event marking the 50th anniversary of the major Civil Rights movement march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Clark will also receive the Mass. Democratic Party’s prestigious Eleanor Roosevelt Award at a ceremony next month.

SAUGUS — A 15-foot by 30-foot exterior deck on the back of the Melrose Fish and Game Club reportedly collapsed Wednesday night and fell on three large propane tanks below.

Someone at the club, located at the end of Melrose’s Slayton Road but which is actually in Saugus, called the Saugus Fire Department shortly after…

BOSTON (AP) — Police have charged a homeless man with stealing an aircraft warning beacon from atop Boston’s distinctive Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge.

Authorities allege that early last month, 34-year-old Clifford Beckford Jr., a Melrose High School graduate, broke through a locked door, climbed a ladder to the top of one of…