Melrose News

MELROSE — On Thursday, February 17, the School Committee will hold a public hearing and allow feedback on a proposal to change the name and logo of the teams and extracurricular clubs at Melrose High.

The hearing will begin at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chamber at Melrose City Hall. All interested persons will…

WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Health Department — which shares a health director with Melrose — will host a COVID booster vaccination clinic on Wednesday, February 9, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Hurd School, located at 27 Cordis St. in Wakefield. The clinic is open to individuals aged 12 and over. The Pfizer…

MELROSE — Home prices continue to rise in the city, with the median price of single-family houses sold here last year topping off at $769,950.

According to a new report from The Warren Group, a leading provider of real estate and transaction data, 274 houses were sold in Melrose in 2021 for a median price of $769,950…

POLICE ARE ASKING FOR the public’s help in identifying a man suspected in a home invasion on Wednesday morning. The man also is suspected in other attempted vehicle and house break-ins, such as the one shown above caught on home surveillance, and the theft of two cars in the neighborhood. (Photo Courtesy Melrose Police Department…

IN 2019, local Vietnam-era vets, were able to take a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial thanks to The Roll to Washington Committee.

MELROSE — The Roll to Washington Committee (R2DC) is providing Vietnam-era veterans from Melrose, Saugus and Wakefield with an all-expenses-paid four-day tour of Washington, D.C. this coming September as part of…

By BOB BURGESS and MAUREEN DOHERTY

WAKEFIELD – In a landslide decision Tuesday, voters in communities that send students to Northeast Metro Tech approved building a new $317 million, state-of-the-art vocational school.

Unofficially, a total of 9,036 voters in the 12 Northeast communities voted for a new school and 1,567 opposed it. In Melrose, over…