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UPDATE: Track boys place 3rd at ML12 Championship following 4th place finish at State Relay Finals

May 22, 2025

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Melrose Boys’ Track places 3rd at ML12 Championship (May 21)

Published May 23, 2025

Track boys earn 4th at State Relay Finals

Guzman earns state relay title in javelin

By JENNIFER GENTILE

MELROSE COLLECTED plenty of medals at the Div. 4 State Relay Championship, and many of them are

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UPDATE: Middlesex Freedom League champ Melrose falls to Cambridge and Masconomet to wrap up regular season

May 22, 2025

Post publication updates:
Melrose falls to Masconomet 4-1 (May 25)
Melrose falls to Cambridge 9-1 (May 21)

Published May 23, 2025

Melrose High baseball is league champs after 34 years

By CORY THOMAS

IT WAS 34 years in the making for the Melrose High baseball team, who on Tuesday became league champs

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UPDATE: Tennis girls strong play down stretch earns #31 seed in MIAA D2 state tournament

May 22, 2025

Post publication update:
Melrose qualifies for MIAA Div. 2 state tournament, earning the #31 seed and will face Malden Catholic in their first game.
For more details and to view the bracket, click here.

Published May 23, 2025

Tennis girls are poised for a playoff run

Three straight wins keep playoff…

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UPDATE: Tennis boys finish with three straight Freedom wins, earn #27 seed in D2 state tournament bid

May 22, 2025

Post-publication update:
Melrose earns #27 seed and will face #6 Scituate in the MIAA Div. 2 state tournament.
For more game details and to view the bracket, click here.

Published May 23, 2025

Tennis boys finish with three straight Freedom wins

Div. 2 playoff run is likely for Melrose

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Rededication Day will be about history and community

May 22, 2025

THESE COINS will be included in a time capsule planned for Rededication Day.

By MICHELLE VISCO

WAKEFIELD — On Saturday, May 31, the town will hold a Rededication Day to honor the 123-year-old Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the Upper Common. Events will be held from 12 noon to 4 p.m. on and around the…

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Wakefield boys’ track defends Div. 4 state relay championship

May 22, 2025

PEMBROKE — The collection of hardware seems to be the norm for the boys on…

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Throwback Thursday 1917

May 22, 2025

ONE OF THE worst train wrecks in Wakefield history occurred at 10:30 on the night of Aug. 2, 1917. The head-on crash at Wakefield Junction involved a freight train locomotive and a shifting engine. (A shifting engine was a smaller locomotive that was used to move rail cars short distances within a railroad yard.) A…

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Mary Jessica Scalley, 78

May 22, 2025

WAKEFIELD — Mary Jessica Brennan Scalley of Wakefield and formerly New Castle, NH, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on May 19. Known by family and friends as Jess, she was 78.

Jess was born in Boston to Ruth (Chisholm) and John Brennan, spending her early years in Somerville before moving to Wakefield…

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Special Town Meeting added to June 9 docket

May 22, 2025

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — If voters were expecting a long night at the annual Town Meeting on Monday, June 9 with a total of 31 warrant articles on the docket, they’d be right.

But the Select Board also made things a little more interesting this past Monday night when they voted to squeeze…

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