Melrose News

OUR NURSING TEAM recently celebrated national Nurses Month with a themed party with old-fashioned nurses caps, trivia and more. Members of our teams are from your towns, as well as individuals who we serve in your towns.

MALDEN — In May, the Nursing Department at Mystic Valley Elder Services (MVES) celebrated National Nurses Month…

BOSTON — Malden resident Gabriella Snyder Stelmack, who serves as the executive director of Bread of Life, was recently recognized as a 2024 Commonwealth Heroine. She was nominated for this honor by State Senator Jason Lewis. Commonwealth Heroines are recognized each year in a…

MELROSE — The June 23 Pantry of Hope benefit concert by local duo Knock on Wood raised $1,060. It was hosted by the First…

MELROSE — The Northeast Metro Tech celebrated the graduation of 292 students this year. In a ceremony held Friday, June 7 at Fred Green Memorial Field, Northeast Metro Tech bid congratulations and goodbye to students from the Class of 2024, several…

MELROSE — On Thursday, June 20, the City Council unanimously approved Mayor Jen Grigoraitis’s proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget of $104,140,412, a budget that is balanced without the use of anticipated free cash at the end of the fiscal year. 

In order to deliver a balanced budget, the mayor proposed and the Council enacted…

(The following is a statement on the city’s education budget for fiscal year 2025 from Jen McAndrew, chair of the School Committee’s Finance & Facilities Subcommittee.)

When we started this FY25 budget process, Superintendent (John) Macero and his team made a bold decision: to lay out for us, and for this community, a full, needs-based…

MELROSE — Plastic plant containers, the hard pots and the flimsy eight pack ones are not recyclable curbside or at the DPW Yard. Why not? It’s because three primary resins are used to manufacture horticultural pots and each is processed differently.

But there is good news! We checked with garden centers such as Lowe’s and Home Depot and…

BOSTON — State Senator Jason Lewis joined his colleagues in the state Senate to pass the Massachusetts Plastics Reduction Act, comprehensive legislation to reduce and eliminate single-use plastics that threaten our environment and human health. The bill passed with a bipartisan vote of 38-2.

Senator Lewis…