Melrose News

MELROSE — This Friday’s Melrose Kids Club will feature legendary children’s performer Jeannie Mack. Jeannie always gets the crowd going with great music and lots of interaction with the kids.

As always, the Kids Club is FREE and takes place at Memorial Hall, 590 Main Street, beginning at 10 a.m.

Please be advised that this…

MELROSE — Need some cheering after this winter? Of course you do! Would a Red Sox game help? They have tickets. Rather hang out on your own couch? Then how about a 55-inch LED full HD TV? Warm weather has to come sometime, so how does a fire pit at your house sound? They…

MELROSE — The play Beauty and the Beast will be performed at the Melrose Performing Arts Center in the Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School next week.

The play will be performed on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11, both beginning at 7 p.m. The play will also be performed on Sunday, April 12…

MELROSE — Beanstalk Toy Shop and Beansprout Gifts is proudly presenting the 4th Annual Melrose Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4, at 10 a.m. (sharp!) at the location of Fred Green Field Melrose High (rain or shine). This year’s event, open to all children ages 3-8, is sponsored in part by Music 101, the City…

MELROSE — The roadway phase of the reconstruction of Lebanon Street will begin on Monday, April 6.

This is a state project, run by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. City officials have met with state officials, and they have given the town a project calendar with 100 percent completion by October 2015.

On Monday…

MELROSE — The Melrose Franklin School/ Early Childhood Center is coordinating a fundraiser to revamp and renew the current playground through a brick sale. These bricks can be engraved with residents’ own special message, dedication or business name and will be placed in the playground entrance.

Purchasing a brick for the ECC playground means…

MELROSE — Police dealt with a variety of reports between March 23 and March 30, including one where they had to arrest a 22-year-old Upham Street man for assault and battery after he and his brother allegedly got into a fight over a box of cereal.

Police said Jesse J. McCallum, 47 Upham St…

BOSTON – State Senator Jason Lewis and Representative Paul Brodeur announced last week that the City of Melrose has been awarded $79,353 in state road and bridge repair assistance as part of the Winter Recovery Assistance Program (WRAP) through the Massachusetts Governor’s Office.

A total of $30 million has been allocated through WRAP to assist…