Melrose News

MELROSE – With Melrose’s Earth Week festivities underway, Mayor Paul Brodeur announces the completion of the City’s Net Zero Action Plan, designed to be a road map to reducing local greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by the year 2050.

The plan’s 31 strategies include electrifying residential heating systems, switching to electric vehicles, introducing greener…

MELROSE — Following is a letter from Rebecca Mooney, executive director of the Melrose Alliance Against Violence.

Dear MAAV Friends & Supporters,

It is with mixed emotions that I’m writing to announce that after 25 years as Executive Director of the Melrose Alliance Against Violence, I will be retiring at the end of August. I…

MELROSE — For now, the teams and clubs at the city’s flagship school will be known as Red Hawks.

On Tuesday, the School Committee narrowly approved changing the decades-long Red Raider moniker at Melrose High to something which supporters of the move call “less offensive.” While all seven board members voted to discontinue the Raider…

MELROSE — The School Committee has given educators $40,253,740 to run things during the 2022-23 academic year.

On Tuesday, the committee approved the schools’ budget for fiscal year 2023, which begins July 1. Of the total, the city would contribute $25,883,829; the school appropriation request is $25,946,518; offsets account for another $4.6 million and aid…

MELROSE — The School Committee voted Tuesday to allow the Melrose Public Library to set up temporarily in the Beebe School on West Foster Street.

Library Director Linda Gardener and city Planning and Community Development Director Denise Gaffey successfully pitched their plan to school board members as Melrose prepares to see its iconic West Emerson…