Melrose News

MELROSE — Donations to the Melrose Emergency Fund topped $43,000 this week, surpassing the total amount donated in last year’s fundraising drive.

“While we do our main fundraising during the holiday season, the Emergency Fund works year-round to support Melrose families who are going through difficult times,” said Mayor Rob Dolan. “Over the past…

MELROSE — Local authorities may come down hard on the owner of a Franklin Street market accused of trying to dupe a mentally challenged woman out of Lottery winnings.

The owner of RD’s Deli & Market, Chang Cho of Churchill Circle in…

MELROSE — A donation from the Melrose Rotary Club helped bring this year’s total donations to the Melrose Emergency Fund to over $25,000 this week.

The Rotary Club donation is earmarked for heating oil.

“Melrose Rotary’s motto is ‘Service…

MELROSE — The aldermen this week won high praise from people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities for amending an ordinance to state the city will not descriminate based on “sexual orientation, gender identity (or) gender expression.”

The order, sponsored by Alderman At Large Jaclyn Lavender Bird, was the result of a request…

(The following was submitted by the Melrose High Bandaiders.)

On Friday afternoon, the band came to unload the trees but the trees didn’t come. On Friday night, the people of Melrose came to buy the trees but the trees didn’t come. On Saturday, the buses came to take the band to Gillette Stadium but the…

MELROSE — The Melrose Education Foundation announces that it has awarded over $27,000 in grants to Melrose Public Schools educators during its fall 2014 grants cycle. The Foundation made the awards in partnership with the City of Melrose and the grants will directly impact students at every school in the district, from the Early Childhood…

MELROSE — Residential property tax owners will be paying a rate of $12.96 for each $1,000 of value in the coming year. The aldermen agreed Monday night to set a shift factor of 1.42, which now means the “average” homeowner will be paying $5,549 in property taxes in the year ahead, up from $5,383.

Commercial…

MELROSE — Tuesday’s nasty nor’easter dumped plenty of rain on the city, causing streets to flood and about 2,200 National Grid customers to lose electricity during parts of the storm

Between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. the city saw all manner of localized street flooding, the major ones being at the corner of Lebanon and…

32 years after 4 Raiders charged to Foxboro, their sons return

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