New School Leadership, Essex Street Housing Development and Overdoses

The Melrose School Committee, during the course of its annual evaluation of Superintendent Joe Casey last night, sent a message to the superintendent: Someone 

The Melrose Planning Board will send a letter to the Zoning Board of Appeals   a former church at 99-111 Essex St. into commuter-friendly, energy efficient housing. The developers are seeking a parking variance as the units will be offering fewer than two parking spots per unit.

Two men  in the  parking lot on early Monday evening and taken to , while a third man who left the area was later found and also taken to the hospital.

Schools

The Melrose School Committee is using a projected year-end budget surplus to for the elementary schools, and to address deficiencies cited by recent reviews intextbooks and the district's English Language Learners program.

MWRA is pleased to announce that Julia Talbot, a fifth grader at the Horace Mann School, Melrose, 

Government 

Gov. Deval Patrick said in a radio interview today that he thinks the —including the Lloyd Memorial Pool on Tremont Street in Melrose—in time for the Fourth of July weekend,the Worcester Telegram and Gazette reports.

The Blueberry Hill townhouse development proposal , when the Melrose Planning Board will plan to hold a special meeting to review the project.

The  on Tremont Street in Melrose and 29 other swimming pools operated by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) are c after a woman's body was found floating in a Fall River DCR pool last night, the Boston Globe reports.

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