Melrose News

MELROSE — Mayor Robert J. Dolan has requested authorization from the Board of Aldermen for a $5.3 million…

U.S. Congresswoman Katherine Clark of Melrose was invited by fellow U.S. Rep. John Lewis to attend an event marking the 50th anniversary of the major Civil Rights movement march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Clark will also receive the Mass. Democratic Party’s prestigious Eleanor Roosevelt Award at a ceremony next month.

SAUGUS — A 15-foot by 30-foot exterior deck on the back of the Melrose Fish and Game Club reportedly collapsed Wednesday night and fell on three large propane tanks below.

Someone at the club, located at the end of Melrose’s Slayton Road but which is actually in Saugus, called the Saugus Fire Department shortly after…

BOSTON (AP) — Police have charged a homeless man with stealing an aircraft warning beacon from atop Boston’s distinctive Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge.

Authorities allege that early last month, 34-year-old Clifford Beckford Jr., a Melrose High School graduate, broke through a locked door, climbed a ladder to the top of one of…

By BOB BURGESS

MELROSE — In a wide-ranging discussion before the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning, Mayor Robert J. Dolan said Melrose faces a lot of challenges, not the least of which is “building a community built to last.”

During his annual breakfast meeting appearance in Windsor at Oak Grove, Dolan rallied business leaders and…

By BOB BURGESS

MELROSE — Supt. of Schools Cyndy Taymore on Tuesday presented her educational budget proposal for next year, a $27,065,941 spending plan that brings the city a little closer to meeting the challenges it faces.

Taymore’s budget proposal, like any other education budget in any other year, is subject to change.

On March…

The March 10 Author’s Corner with Bob Ryan scheduled for the Melrose Public Library has been canceled.

WOBURN — A Middlesex grand jury this week indicted the former owner of RD’s Deli on Franklin Street for allegedly trying to dupe a mentally challenged woman out of Lottery winners.

Chang Cho, of Churchill Circle in Winchester, was indicted a charge of larceny over $250 against a disabled person. He will be arraigned sometime…

By BOB BURGESS

MELROSE — The winter of 2014-15 was already a record breaker before the city saw another 15 inches of snow fall Valentine’s Day night and Sunday, February 15. It now may be a bank breaker too.

The city will spend at least $1.5 million on snow and ice removal this winter, according…