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Melrose High School Drama puts on a Grease performance

March 28, 2025

MELROSE — Tickets are now on sale for the Melrose High School spring musical Grease! Join us as we travel back to the rockin’ 1950s and meet the students of Rydell High. You will be swept away by the unforgettable songs and dance numbers as the Pink Ladies and T-Birds navigate friendship, love and…

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Kingpins

March 27, 2025

LYNNFIELD RECREATION held its very popular Mother and Son Bowling event at Town Line Luxury Lanes in Malden on Sunday March 23. Friends, from left, Jax Corlett, Nathaniel Uiyl, Zac Mancinelli, Jack Esposito, Colin George, Luke Angilly, Greyson Senat and Ben Luongo were among the 176 Mother-Son teams who enjoyed the day. (Courtesy Photo)

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Front Page: March 27, 2025

March 27, 2025

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March 27, 2025

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School Committee finalizes budget

March 27, 2025

School start debate continues

By NEIL ZOLOT

WAKEFIELD – The School Committee approved its Fiscal 2026 budget ask for Town Meeting, but tabled action on changing school start times, at their meeting Tuesday.

The proposed budget request is $55,425,161, a 5.94 percent increase over the $52,319,699…

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Women in Wakefield: Ida Louise Miller, a civic dynamo

March 27, 2025

This is part of a series. It was submitted by Nancy Bertrand.

Today’s “Women in Women” profile spotlights Ida Louise Farr Miller. Born in Littleton, NH in 1863, Ida Louise counted among her ancestors two different presidents of Harvard College. Since her father was a NH Congressman, she spent part of her childhood in Washington DC and…

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Goals for Warrior baseball in 2025: Some new, some old

March 27, 2025

By DAN PAWLOWSKI

WAKEFIELD — The 2025 Wakefield High baseball team has goals. That’s nothing new. In fact, a couple of goals might be old.

Last…

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Shirley Jabor, 90

March 27, 2025

Love of her children and family always came first

WAKEFIELD — Shirley Ann Jabor, age 90 of Wakefield, died peacefully on Monday, March 24 at the Melrose-Wakefield Hospital with her sister Nancy Heselton and her son Bobby’s best friend Rob Murley.

She was born in MelroseWakefield Hospital on January 30,1935 and was the daughter of…

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The sounds of solidarity

March 27, 2025

EARLIER THIS MONTH, Melrose-based The Opening Doors Project hosted a great free concert at the Unitarian Church on West Emerson Street. A performance by the Black Legacy Project, based in Atlanta, had the crowd thinking. And jumping. (Photos by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

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Parents urge SC to save positions, services

March 27, 2025

MELROSE — During a public hearing this week, residents urged the School Committee to save the computer science class at Melrose High, keep the full-time principal position at Veterans Memorial Middle School, do more long range planning with an eye toward financial responsibility and to get creative when it comes to finding more money to…

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Mayor: Police have new pacts with city

March 27, 2025

Agreements include cost-of-living adjustments, promotional procedures

MELROSE — Mayor Jen Grigoraitis announced this week that the City of Melrose reached new collective bargaining agreements with the Melrose Patrol Officers Association and the Melrose Superior Police Officers Association. The previous contracts for both bargaining units expired on June 30, 2024.

These new agreements provide for…

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Tough budget decisions in FY26

March 27, 2025

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — Town and elected officials tasked with crafting the FY26 budget to present to voters at Town Meeting in June have hunkered down in workshops this week.

To date in March, the Select Board has taken under advisement the budget requests of two-thirds of the town’s department heads, along with…

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