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World travelers

THE MELROSE GOOD GUYS, an adult soccer team, recently completed another international trip, this time to Prague in the Czech Republic. Previous destinations have been London, Berlin and Madrid. The team travels as a group of 10 and visited the home town (Pardubice) of Peter Drahos (an MGG player and fellow Melrosian), toured the sites

 

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The City Hall update

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

Upcoming holidays

Melrose Public Schools’ April break begins on Friday, April 18 at 12 noon. Schools will be closed during the week of April 21. City Hall is open for regular hours on Friday, April 18, but some offices may…

 

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Keep Melrose Beautiful: Help out at April 26 cleanup!

MELROSE — The Keep Melrose Beautiful community-wide cleanup happens Saturday, April 26 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

Keep Melrose Beautiful is a volunteer-led organization that is working to clean up and green up our city. KMB partners with Mayor Jen Grigoraitis, Melrose DPW, and other groups such as Zero Waste Melrose and the Ell…

 

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Remembering and honoring the Armenian Genocide 

Note: The writer is a sophomore at Melrose High.

By PAIGE TRENOUTH

Bedros Bahadourian recalls, as a 12 year old boy, the sight of dead bloated bodies afloat in the river. Haig Baronian remembers the sight of his grandmother being stabbed in front of him. Sam Kadorian can still feel the weight of dead bodies…

 

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What’s hop-ening?

SUNDAY is Easter and kids around the city await a very special visitor. (Photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

 

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LV Softball 2025

Softball beats Newburyport falls to Essex Tech and Georgetown to start season

Updates after press time:
Lynnfield falls to Lowell Catholic 4-2 (April 17)
Lynnfield defeats Hamilton-Wenham 10-2 (April 16)

 

 

By STEPHEN MARTELLUCCI

GEORGETOWN — On a sunny, warm day on Monday, the Lynnfield High softball team lost, 9-2, at Georgetown. With that result, the Pioneers’ record dipped to 1-2 overall and in the Cape Ann

 

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Jr. Prom 2025

Time for a special night

Jr. Prom 2025
PHILLIP YU AND JACKIE CHAVEZ had a great time at Lynnfield High School’s Junior Prom at Spinelli’s on April 11. (Dan Tomasello Photo)

 

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Front Page: April 17, 2025

 

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Sports: April 17, 2025

 

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News 2025

Wakefield’s Minutemen: The Revolution’s 250th anniversary begins

News 2025
AMERICAN REVOLUTION-related items from the Historical Society’s collection, including orders for town funding of the military and a blanket and cartridge box carried by Nathaniel Cowdrey, who saw considerable service during the War. Cowdrey lived on what is now Prospect Street in Wakefield

By NANCY BERTRAND

For the Wakefield Historical Society

WAKEFIELD — As the…

 

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Baseball 2025

Another slugfest leads Warrior baseball to 12-0 win over Stoneham

Baseball 2025
CAM DEPRIZIO had another strong day at the plate in Wakefield’s win over Stoneham, hitting a sac fly in the 1st, while getting on base and scoring during big innings in the 3rd and 5th. (Alicen Encarnacao Racca Photo)

 

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Throwback Thursday Wakefield Square 1930

THIS PHOTO is of Wakefield Square in 1930, looking north from the corner of Main and Water streets. In the foreground on the right, the ivy-covered edge of the old Town Hall is visible. Across Main Street is the W.T. Grant Co. department store, on the current site of the Farmland parking lot. Note that

 

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