Melrose News

MELROSE — Coolidge Road’s Dorie Withey will join the School Committee after receiving the second-most votes in a four-way contest for three available seats during Tuesday’s 2021 city election.

About 16 percent of the 20,819 voters registered to participate did so this week.

Withey was elected Tuesday along with incumbent School Committee members Jennifer McAndrew…

MELROSE — Scott Macaulay is at it again.

In his annual effort to make sure people who need a Thanksgiving meal get one, Scott has more certificates for a full holiday dinner with all the fixin’s from the great J. Pace’s in Saugus.

As of earlier this week, Scott had certificates for 100 dinners. Each…

MELROSE — Four people are running for three School Committee seats up for election on Tuesday, November 2.

Incumbents Jennifer McAndrews and Jennifer Razi-Thomas are two of the candidates. The others are John P. Connelly and Dorie Withey.

We asked all four to answer a couple of questions.

DORIE WITHEY

1) Why are you running…

MELROSE — School officials were dealing this week with the fallout caused by a much-criticized plan to celebrate the seasons in class rather than emphasize traditional individual observances like Halloween.

As rumors swirled that the schools would not allow kids to celebrate Halloween, a letter from Supt. of Schools Dr. Julie Kukenberger seemed to confirm…

MELROSE — As inventory levels across Massachusetts continued to shrink, the median sale price for both single-family homes and condominiums climbed in September on a year-over-year basis, according to a new report from The Warren Group, a leading provider of real estate and transaction data.

In Melrose, 14 single-family homes sold last month at a…

MELROSE — Over the summer, Melrose High Principal Jason Merrill announced a plan to create a new name and possible mascot for Melrose High.

Now he’s looking for ideas.

In a release announcing that suggestions of possible names and mascots for Melrose High’s sports teams and extracurricular clubs are now being accepted, high school administrators…