Melrose News

By DAN TOMASELLO

MELROSE — In a surprising turn of events, Republican state Senate candidate Monica Medeiros failed to win her home city in the state election Tuesday.

State Senator Jason Lewis (D-Winchester) defeated Medeiros, an Alderman at-Large, with 48.41 percent (5,714) of the vote compared to Medeiros’ 45.72 percent (5,396). Lewis carried Ward 1…

By GAIL LOWE

WAKEFIELD — Some marriages, it seems, were made in heaven. How else to explain the love and endurance these couples demonstrate.

But there’s another kind of marriage that also may…

MELROSE — Mayor Rob Dolan and other city and state officials announced this week that Melrose has received $500,000 through the MassWorks Infrastructure Program for improvements to the Essex Street Corridor.

The proposed scope of work for the estimated $750,000 project will include Essex Street, beginning at Main Street and continuing to the intersection of…

MELROSE — The four people running to represent us on Beacon Hill were asked the following question: What is the November 4 election about? Here are their answers.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE

32nd MIDDLESEX DISTRICT

Incumbent Paul Brodeur of Melrose is being challenged by Greenwood Republican John Lock.

PAUL BRODEUR

Next week’s election is about the quality…

MELROSE — A hard-charging nor’easter kept public safety and public works crews busy last week, with high winds snapping tree limbs and a whipping rain causing various neighborhoods and homes to take on water.

Police began getting calls Wednesday, October 22, around 4 p.m. The first was for a tree branch down on wires on…

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Last week in a front page Political Notebook, state Senator Jason Lewis was critical of Alderman-at-Large Monica Medeiros’ position on MWRA water and sewer rates. They are running against each other in the November 4 election for the Fifth Middlesex District seat in the state Senate. Here is Medeiros’ response.

As an alderman and…

Please note: For the past few years, Veterans Day, November 11, has fallen on either a weekend or a Monday, meaning popular Veterans Memorial Middle School observance has been on a Friday during that time. Many local veterans have come to assume the VMMS event is always on a Friday, which is not the case.…

MELROSE — The Boston Cardiac Foundation team has just returned from Africa, where they performed several pacemaker operations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and helped advancement of cardiac care by educating local doctors to aid those in need at Rwanda Military Hospital, Kigali.

This included lectures on Cardiac Arrhythmias…

Following are press releases sent by the campaigns of those running for elected office in our area. Election Day is Nov. 4.

MELROSE – State Senator Jason Lewis highlighted a City of Melrose official memo showing that Alderman-at-Large Monica Medeiros’ plan for changing MWRA rates would more than double the percentage increase in water and…

MELROSE — A local 16-year-old will be summonsed to court for allegedly stealing an Apple iPhone from the downtown YMCA Saturday afternoon, October 11.

Police reported around 2:10 p.m. that someone said his smart phone had been stolen from the 497 Main St. facility. The phone was soon tracked to a Goss Avenue residence.

After…