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Weekly Recap: MHS Renovations, Superintendent Contract, Next Year's Budget

A look back at Melrose's top stories of the week.

A look back at Melrose's top stories of the week.

Here are some of the highlights from Melrose Patch's news coverage this past week. This is only a small sample—to see all the coverage, click on the News tab on the navigation bar.

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Top Three Articles of the Week

The aldermen's Appropriations Committee on Monday night unanimously for design and project management services for what city officials say would be a three-year renovation project at Melrose High School.

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Incoming Melrose Schools , according to the three-year contract approved Tuesday night by the School Committee. .

Mayor Rob Dolan held a press conference to go over some of the , including a goal to start weekly recycling pickup, a new citywide facilities manager, regionalized veteran services and more.

Schools

Proposals to tap the Melrose Schools' technology and legal budgets to fund a part-time webmaster and a expand a summer program for at-risk kids failed at Tuesday's School Committee meeting, .

The majority of people who voted in last week's poll thought that the city should .

MVMMS 7th grader Dylan Nottingham will compete in the Ohio Wrestling Tournament of Champions in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, April 21—

Opinion

Our poll about took off this week. Have you voted?

Police and Fire

A driver shows a handgun to another driver and .

Government

and pay any tax due, according to the IRS.

House and Home

Is housing and transportation affordable in Melrose? Here's one calculation that says ...

Boston Marathon 2012

Planning to head from Melrose into Boston for the 116th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 16? From which T stops are closed, to parking, to the race schedule and map of the finish line,.

Here are submitted profiles of Melrose marathoners:

From Patch

Patch is holding a Video Battle of the Bands contest in which local bands will square off for musical supremacy. !

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Best Of Patch Readers' Choice

This week, Melrose Patch polled you on the best place in the city to buy sporting goods, and .

This coming week's contest: ""

Local Voices Bloggers

Melrose Veteran Services Officer Ryan McLane asks the community to spread the word about the city's taking place in Melrose in the next two weeks.

Matthew Kruse, one of the pastors at Seven Mile Road, writes about over and over and over.

Four Mystic Valley basketball players were recently .

Hair extensions have grown so much in popularity over the last few years, they are no longer just for celebs and Real Housewives. .

If you’re relatively young, and you’ve only been investing for a few years, Chris Cinella says


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