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MELROSE—On Tuesday, June 11, Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School Grade 8 students visited Memorial Hall and Melrose City Hall as a capstone for the year’s civics curriculum. Students met with municipal elected officials and representatives…

MELROSE — Voters rejected a plan Tuesday to raise taxes so $7.7 million could be added to budgets each year to help the city and its schools provide adequate services.

The operational override of tax-limiting Proposition 2 1/2 failed by a roughly 55 percent to 45 percent margin, with 5,150 voters rejecting it and 4,280…

MELROSE — The 59 single-family homes that have sold in the city through the first five months of 2024 have fetched a median price of $856,000, according to the latest report from The Warren Group, a leading provider of real estate and transaction data.

The median sales price of a single-family home through May was…

MELROSE — On Friday, June 7, more than 160 people turned out to celebrate Follow Your Art Community Studios’ (FYACS) fifth year as Melrose’s nonprofit arts center. Unexpected rainstorms bookended the event, but the…

MELROSE — It’s time again for jazz in Melrose. Temple Beth Shalom’s popular concert series, Keeping Jazz Alive will return to Melrose at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 29 at 21 E. Foster St., Melrose.

This year’s Irving Smolens Memorial Jazz Concert will feature bassist and Berklee College of Music professor Bruce Gertz. Back by…

MELROSE — Voters will decide whether property taxes will rise in order to spend more money on education and other municipal services during a $7.7 million Proposition 2 1/2 override election Tuesday.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Middle School gym accessed from Melrose Street.

This operational override…

MELROSE — City officials acknowledge there is a lot of work to do after reports surfaced recently about possible racist acts in Melrose schools.

According to a release, Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the Melrose Public School District…