Melrose News

MELROSE — Melrose-based nonprofit The Food Drive is grateful to announce the Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation as the “Harvest Hero Presenting Sponsor” for their Harvest 2025 Fall Fundraiser to be held at Memorial Hall in Melrose on Saturday, November 8. As the top…

MELROSE — The City of Melrose is sharing the following updates for the upcoming week:

Overdose Awareness Week

The City of Melrose is participating in Overdose Awareness Week — a time to remember lives lost to overdose, raise awareness, and act. Learn more about preventing and ending overdose and find resources to help those affected…

A REPURPOSED WOOD storage room at the middle school has been transformed into something very different and certainly quite impressive.

MELROSE — The Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School Drama Department has unveiled its newly renovated vanity room, once a repurposed wood storage room.

Sometimes all it takes is for a person to…

MELROSE — The Melrose Community Book Project (MCBP) is celebrating five years of free virtual and in-person reading and writing enrichment programming for Melrose community youths. In the wake of school and library closings, social distancing and many canceled summer…

Medford veteran is first in region to receive innovative radiation therapy at MelroseWakefield Hospital

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MELROSE — Do you enjoy singing and meeting interesting people? Polymnia Choral Society is looking for singers of all skill levels. For more than 70 years, Polymnia has been entertaining audiences with performances that include pieces from a wide variety of musical styles including classical, pop, musical theater and more. Come join a community of…

MERRIMACK — Matthew Ormond of Melrose graduated from Merrimack College during the school’s 75th commencement exercises held in May 2025 at Lawler Arena. Ormond earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, completing his studies in just three years. He distinguished himself academically by earning a place on…

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Porchfest Committee has launched the first official schedule at wakefieldporchfest.com for the 2025 event including an interactive map that allows attendees to discover the 66 homes and businesses that will host more than 130 local musical acts on Saturday, September 6.

The 2025 event offers a solid mix of venues across…

MELROSE — A comprehensive calendar of everything Arts and Culture in Melrose. Here are just a few arts and culture events happening around Melrose this week:

Music Monday Mark Perry: September 1, 6-8 p.m.; enjoy a range of classics from the 70’s to 90’s with Mark Perry.

Instructional Knitting at Sit & Knit: September 1, 6-8…

How would an override impact individual taxpayers? 

MELROSE — Earlier this year, Mayor Jen Grigoraitis appointed and convened a Financial Task Force to formulate and propose a Proposition 2 1⁄2 override referendum based on an analysis of the city’s budgetary needs, examples from Melrose’s peer communities, and input from the Melrose public. 

Based…