Weekly Recap: A Selfless Thanksgiving Host, Tax Hikes, and Scott Brown

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, and to see your neighbors' news, check out our Announcements section under News.

Top Three Articles of the Week

On Thursday, for the 26th year running, Scott Macaulay hosted, cooked and served a Thanksgiving dinner—.

The Melrose Board of Alderman approved a at Monday night's meeting when they effectively set the tax rate.

last Friday afternoon, popping into local businesses with Mayor Rob Dolan and attending a ribbon cutting at Melrose Animal Clinic.

Sports

and the Wakefield defense stopped them well shy of the goal line, preserving a narrow 3-0 Thanksgiving Day win for Wakefield before a standing room-only crowd of over 2,000 spectators at the newly refurbished Fred Green Field at Melrose High. .

Police and Fire

Reported sex offense at MHS under investigation, a student carrying a knife, an overdose and more in .

Schools

Our Whiz Kids of the Week: The at the New England Scholastic Band Association (NESBA) Championship Competition at Lawrence Veterans’ Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 6.

More than on Saturday, Nov. 19. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Education and Math education in local schools. The expo—sponsored by Mayor Rob Dolan and the Melrose Education Coalition—showcased current STEM programs including the middle and high school robotics programs along with some Lego activities for younger students.

Holidays

For this week's Patch Picks, we asked for the best places in Melrose or nearby to get a Christmas tree. .

For the next Patch Picks, the holiday season is a good reason to buy some flowers for a loved one. Or, maybe you want the dinner table to look spectacular and the only thing missing is a floral arrangement at the center (maybe flanked by a candle or two). So tell us: ?

We asked in a poll: ?

Melrose Patch businesses to . Stay tuned this week for Home for the Holidays deals this coming weekend.

Opinion

We brought you the results of last week's poll, and most of people said they .

A report this month from NPR says that a growing number of hospitals in Massachusetts, and across the country, are saying no to elective inductions and C-sections before 39 weeks. Melrose-Wakefield Hospital delivered 45.7 percent of babies through cesarean section in 2008. So for this week's Moms Talk, , and a discussion broke out on Facebook.