Melrose News

MELROSE — The Mt. Hood Park Association is sponsoring its Annual July 4th Concert in front of the clubhouse at Mount Hood Memorial Park & Golf Course, 100 Slayton Rd., Melrose. This concert is being supported in part by a grant…

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 pm 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. And back…

MELROSE — Chris Di Pietro, a lifelong resident of Melrose set out to pursue his dream at the age of 22. After completing Barber School, Chris opened his first location in the Whole…

MELROSE — Longtime Melrose resident Howie Newman and Joe Kessler, also known as Knock on Wood are anything but…

By GAIL LOWE

MELROSE — If it is true that everyone is born for a specific life purpose, then it would follow that it is up to the individual to discern what that purpose might be. Dr. Salil K. Midha, former chief of cardiology at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital…

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…