Weekly Recap: Parking Rates; Superintendent Finalist; Consignment Store Opens

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.

To see your neighbors' news, check out our Announcements section under News, and read Local Voices bloggers' latest posts.

Top Three Articles of the Week

The Melrose Board of Aldermen approved City Hall's request to Also, the $35 monthly passes iwll be eliminated, replaced by the option of purchasing at new pay-and-display machines either a 10-day pass for $27.50 or a 20-day pass for $50.

Melrose Patch live blogged from the public meeting and School Committee interview with Melrose Schools superintendent finalist Dr. William Hart. You can read the full transcript or selected highlights.

The owner of the , Kathleen Kankel said that in addition to saving parents money when buying kids clothes, they can also make something back on their original investment on, say, a shirt that their child quickly outgrew.

Police and Fire

Two Melrose after a fight that allegedly took place on Melrose High School grounds on Friday.

Assault and battery on a police officer charge and more in .

Schools

Melrose School Commmitee member Carrie Kourkoumelis has in its handling of another complaint she had filed.

(New England Association of Schools and Colleges), outlining how the school is addressing areas of concern that resulted in the school being placed on warning in two accreditation categories last year.

The inaugural Lincoln School Science Fair was one of five fairs to be held throughout the district in the past weeks—Jamie Kelly, Veronica Meade-Kelly and Jessica Dugan put together this .

: "Hipster's Milk Dudes" from Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School—Chloe Melville, Isabel Bates, Alva Ronn and Emily DiPietro—created and starred in a video about a particular math problem that has received enough votes from the public to advance to the semi-final round of the Reel Math Challenge video contest.

Government

Mayor Rob Dolan joined us for our monthly live chat, taking questions from residents on the trash fee and recycling, charter schools, the budget and more. You can or .

Best of Patch Readers' Choice

This week we asked for the in Melrose, and the . We also rounded up .

MBTA

Some MBTA riders would like transit police to fine people who stretch out too far in a crowded T car or set their backpack in the next seat to avoid sitting beside someone else, according to a report by the Boston Herald.

Hundreds of seniors, people with disabilities, and other T riders were expected to show up at an MBTA Board meeting Wednesday to , according to a press release issued by Mass. Senior Action and Mass. Uniting.

After months of debate over the MBTA's two proposed scenarios for cutting services and raising fares to meet their projected $161 million budget deficit, MBTA GM Jonathan Davis said .

Opinion

Melrose is split on whether the state should require nationally chartered banks to according to our poll results.

Local Voices Bloggers

Moderno Salon and Spa offers up tips on .

Chris Cinella said it's time to .

Ron Sen touches on a Goldman Sachs executive's resignation in the New York Times and how it can .

Photographer Matt Wallace and is still looking for people to participate in his Millenium Falcon photo project.

Joe Ingemi shares details about this year's .