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The cool sounds of Jazz Fest 2025

May 9, 2025

THANKS to a generous grant from the Melrose Cultural Council, Melrose Jazz Fest was held on Sunday, May 4 at Follow Your Art Community Studios, 647 Main St. This event was free, family friendly, open to everyone and produced some awfully good music. (Photos by Dan Murphy, murphymediagroup.org)

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Scenes from Melrose’s 175th birthday

May 9, 2025

KRIS RODOLICO (right) of Follow Your Art Community Studios helped organize some of the city’s 175th birthday events, as did the office of Mayor Jen Grigoraitis. (Photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

CITY COUNCILORS helped celebrate Melrose’s 175th anniversary Saturday. From the left are Ward 6’s Cal Finocchiaro, council President Leila Migliorelli and Ward

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Take a bow

May 8, 2025

LYNNFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL’s cast and crew put on the original play “Sonder,” written by eighth-graders Nora Hutter and CC Ragalevsky, during METG’s Drama Festival on Saturday, May 3. (Shay Wainwright Photo)

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Celebrating seniors

May 8, 2025

THE MELROSE High girls’ tennis team will celebrate their hard working seniors on Thursday, May 15, prior to their match with Stoneham at 4:15. Being honored are seniors (pictured, from left) Natalia Menjivar, Aarya Ayal, Nancy Lau, Mina Zheng and Charlotte Demers. (photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

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Featured MHS Athlete of the Week: Dylan Harrington

May 8, 2025

Published May 9, 2025

Dylan Harrington

Senior
Baseball

THIS WEEK’S MHS Athlete of the Week came up victorious for the Melrose High baseball team, who earned their 8th win of the season against a tough Woburn Tanners team last week, by earning the win on the mound in relief pitching. Senior hurler Dylan

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Giving back

May 8, 2025

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LYNNFIELD ROTARY hosted its fourth annual Bed A Bed event in the Lynnfield High School cafeteria on Saturday, May 3. Over 100 volunteers from Lynnfield Rotary, A Healthy Lynnfield and the Interact Club at LHS assembled beds for needy children. (Courtesy Photo)

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Sunny days

May 8, 2025

THE MELROSE High girls’ softball team has a busy week ahead against Middlesex Freedom League competition as they look to get back into the win column after losses to ML Large teams. After press time, they fell to Wakefield and Burlington on May 7 and 8. They hope to get back into the winning

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Thank you for your service

May 8, 2025

THE SELECT BOARD recognized Jeff Strong Monday night for the 47 years of service he dedicated as a Call Firefighter and dispatcher of the North Reading Fire Department. Strong’s tenure began when he graduated from NRHS in 1978 and he served the maximum length of time — retiring upon reaching his 65th birthday. From left:

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Gators, start your engines!

May 7, 2025

THERE WAS A nice turnout for this year’s 12th Annual Gator Gallop 5K Fun Run/Walk on Sunday, May 4 at Lake Quannapowitt. The Gator Gallop benefits the Greenwood School PTO and Wakefield Educational Foundation (WEF). This 5K was a chip timed race around the lake. Those who registered received a free shirt.

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Join the Hartshorne House Association

May 6, 2025

WAKEFIELD — The Col. James Hartshorne House Association invites you to join! The house, whose oldest section dates to around 1681, is the oldest public building in the Town of Wakefield.

Owned by the town since 1929, the National Register-listed property has been managed since the 1930s by the nonprofit Col. Hartshorne House Association, which…

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In bloom

May 2, 2025

THE WEEPING CHERRY TREE in front of this Bellevue Avenue adds brilliance as spring marches on. (Photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

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In Berlin

May 2, 2025

A GROUP OF MELROSE HIGH history students and their chaperones recently returned from a great trip to Europe. They remembered the past with visits to parts of Germany and the Czech Republic, and were good enough to take the Weekly News along. Here they are in front of Berlin’s Neptune Fountain. (Photo courtesy of Kim

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