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FROM THE LEFT ARE Mayor Paul Brodeur, Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian, Fifth Middlesex District Director Sarah Zeiberg, City Council President Jennifer Grigoraitis, Tappe Architects President Charles Hay, City Planner Denise Gaffey, Municipal Building Consultants President Patrick Saitta, City Councilor Ryan Williams, Library Board of Trustees Chair Carol Hoffman, Massachusetts Library Board Commissioner Mary Ann Cluggish, Director…

WARD 6’s Jen Grigoraitis will lead the City Council this year.

MELROSE — Ward 6 representative Jen Grigoraitis will serve as the City Council president for 2023, voted in by her peers last week as the board reorganized for the new year.

She said, “I am honored and humbled to serve as the City Council…

ON DECEMBER 28, the Melrose Lions Club presented Mayor Paul Brodeur with a $1,000 donation to the Melrose Emergency Fund. Pictured left to right: Brad Hutchinson, Paul Brodeur, and Kevin Erb.

MELROSE – In the month of December alone, the Melrose Emergency Fund Donation received over $32,000 in donations, with nearly $6,000 of those donations…

SO ONE OF THESE two is making a list, and the other wants to make sure they’re on it. (Photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

THE LEARNING COMMONS at Melrose High were officially named in honor of Dr. David Driscoll last week. Driscoll, a member of a large, well-known Melrose family, was the city’s longtime superintendent of schools and also served as the state’s education commissioner. Here, the honoree (seventh from the left) stands with members of his own extended…

THE FOUR STUDENTS who will participate in the Northeastern Sr. District Music Festival. From left to right they are Dom Quinci, string bass; Kate Urchuk, soprano; Jonah Tully, trombone; and Jonah Peters, percussion.

MELROSE — The Melrose Music Department announces that four Melrose High School students: Jonah Peters, percussion; Dom Quinci, string bass; Jonah Tully…

THE MELROSE HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING COMMONS has been named for Dr. David P. Driscoll, who served as the 22nd Commissioner of Education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from March 1999 to August 2007. Dr. Driscoll also served as Melrose Superintendent of Schools from 1984 to 1993. Seated, from left: MHS junior Alison Doherty, Dr. Driscoll…