MELROSE — A hard-charging nor’easter kept public safety and public works crews busy last week, with high winds snapping tree limbs and a whipping rain causing various neighborhoods and homes to take on water.
Police began getting calls Wednesday, October 22, around 4 p.m. The first was for a tree branch down on wires on…
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THE MELROSE HIGH SCHOOL girls’ track team will be holding a haunted house fundraiser on November 1 from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The haunted house is located on 223 Washington St., Melrose. Tickets for the event are available for pre-sale up until October 30. The pre-pricing is $2 for children and $4 for adults.
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Last week in a front page Political Notebook, state Senator Jason Lewis was critical of Alderman-at-Large Monica Medeiros’ position on MWRA water and sewer rates. They are running against each other in the November 4 election for the Fifth Middlesex District seat in the state Senate. Here is Medeiros’ response.
As an alderman and…
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Please note: For the past few years, Veterans Day, November 11, has fallen on either a weekend or a Monday, meaning popular Veterans Memorial Middle School observance has been on a Friday during that time. Many local veterans have come to assume the VMMS event is always on a Friday, which is not the case.…
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MELROSE — The Boston Cardiac Foundation team has just returned from Africa, where they performed several pacemaker operations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and helped advancement of cardiac care by educating local doctors to aid those in need at Rwanda Military Hospital, Kigali.
This included lectures on Cardiac Arrhythmias…
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Following are press releases sent by the campaigns of those running for elected office in our area. Election Day is Nov. 4.
MELROSE – State Senator Jason Lewis highlighted a City of Melrose official memo showing that Alderman-at-Large Monica Medeiros’ plan for changing MWRA rates would more than double the percentage increase in water and…
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MELROSE — A local 16-year-old will be summonsed to court for allegedly stealing an Apple iPhone from the downtown YMCA Saturday afternoon, October 11.
Police reported around 2:10 p.m. that someone said his smart phone had been stolen from the 497 Main St. facility. The phone was soon tracked to a Goss Avenue residence.
After…
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MELROSE — City officials and representatives of Melrose’s various condominium associations sat down last week to talk water and sewer rates.
On Wednesday, October 1, in a morning meeting in City Hall, the condo residents asked those who are in charge of setting Melrose’s water and sewer rates to consider assessing them at a lower…
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GREENWOOD REPUBLICAN John Lock (left) listens as incumbent state Rep. Paul Brodeur (D-Melrose) makes a point during a debate last Wednesday, Oct. 1. (David Watts Jr. Photo)
WAKEFIELD — Both candidates running for the 32nd Middlesex District seat in the House of Representatives want to keep casino gambling in Massachusetts but incumbent…
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BOSTON – Later this month, state Senator Jason Lewis, the Reading Coalition Against Substance Abuse and the Mystic Valley Public Health Coalition will present a regional dialogue on opioid abuse. Residents of the Fifth Middlesex district and neighboring communities are encouraged to attend and share their thoughts and feedback.
The presentation will take place on…
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WITH APPLE RECENTLY releasing its newest smartphones, it seems pay phones like this one in front of Shaw’s supermarket are fading from memory. Particularly when they have to to share space with pumpkins. (Donna Larsson Photo)
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