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Sliski earns the Rollins Award from the Meghan Burnett Foundation

KATHRYN SLISKI, pictured here with Bob Burnett of the Meghan Burnett Foundation, earned this year’s Charlie Rollins Award for graduating musician/athletes. (Courtesy Photo)

WAKEFIELD — Friday, May 15 was a gray, damp Senior Day for the Wakefield softball team but spirits remained high as the locals rolled to another decisive Freedom Division victory, this time…

 

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Celebrating graduating high school seniors at St. Theresa Parish

Published in the North Reading Transcript on May 21, 2026

NORTH READING — To help kick off the celebration and start of Senior Week in North Reading, St. Theresa Parish would like to invite all graduating high school seniors, and their families, to a Mass in their honor. Included are students who graduated from other…

 

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Find Waldo Local coming back this summer

Published in the Melrose Weekly News on May 22, 2026

 

MELROSE — Where’s Waldo? In Melrose, of course! Celebrating its fourteenth anniversary in July 2026, Find Waldo Local has become a beloved summertime event in communities nationwide. This year, Candlewick Press and the American Booksellers Association are again teaming up with 325 independent bookstores…

 

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Around the Schoolyard with North Reading Public Schools: Strengthening transparency and collaboration through parent orientation sessions

Published in the North Reading Transcript on May 21, 2026

By Cynthia Conant, Director of Student Services

As the school year winds down, the Office of Student Services is planning and preparing for our Extended School Year Program. We are excited to share that we will be hosting parent orientation sessions designed to provide families…

 

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5th annual Craft Market of BIPOC vendors May 30

Published in the North Reading Transcript on May 21, 2026

 

NORTH READING — The community is invited to the 5th annual Craft Market with BIPOC vendors on Saturday, May 30 at the Ipswich River Park gazebo. The market runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will feature local vendors who are all people…

 

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The Arbors at Stoneham invites community to “Your Passport to Assisted Living” interactive health fair

Published in the Melrose Weekly News on May 22, 2026

STONEHAM — The Arbors at Stoneham is inviting local seniors, families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals to attend Your Passport to Assisted Living, an engaging and informative health fair designed to make exploring assisted living feel approachable, supportive, and even fun.

The event will take place on…

 

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Four Melrose students placed on SNHU Spring President’s List

Published in the Melrose Weekly News on May 22, 2026

MANCHESTER, NH — Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) recently named Julianne Blanch, James Haggerty, Kaitlyn FitzGerald and Caitlin Quigley to its Spring 2026 President’s List. Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above for the reporting term are named…

 

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Mass. Senate passes PROTECT Act to defend residents from federal immigration overreach

Published in the Melrose Weekly News on May 22, 2026

BOSTON — State Senator Jason Lewis joined his colleagues in the Massachusetts Senate to pass sweeping legislation to protect residents from the Trump administration’s weaponization of federal immigration enforcement.

The PROTECT Act holds federal immigration agents legally accountable for civil rights violations, bans local and…

 

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Preservation carpentry program with Tim Fries May 28

Published in the North Reading Transcript on May 21, 2026

NORTH READING — A free talk open to the public on preservation carpentry will be hosted by the Historical and Antiquarian Society on Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m. at the Flint Memorial Library (lower level Activity Room).

Tim Fries is a preservation carpenter with…

 

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Editorial: Ambitious impaired-driving goal

Published in the Melrose Weekly News on May 22, 2026

We still have a long way to go in the quest to keep impaired drivers off the road.

According to AAA Northeast, the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration says traffic fatalities from crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers were down nearly 4% nationally in 2024 but still…

 

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How Did We Ever Survive? (Part 2)

Published in the North Reading Transcript on May 21, 2026

 

By VIRGINIA MCNEIL SLEP

Life these days is filled with warnings about all the practices and products that can kill you…but for those of us who grew up in the ’40s and ’50s, there weren’t many warnings at all. So we sprayed bug spray…

 

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Select Bd. designates May 31 as ‘Beyond Bagels Day’

Published in the North Reading Transcript on May 21, 2026

 

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — After more than two dozen years in business, a beloved bagel shop on Main Street will be closing its doors.

Beyond Bagels at 31 Main Street has been operated by the Chao family for 24 years and has…

 

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