Weekly Recap: Return to Steele House, Foreclosures Down

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

Residents of the Steele House elderly housing complex who were displaced by an early morning fire on Wednesday morning .

Matching a statewide year-over-year decrease in foreclosure activity, both the number of year-over-year in 2011, while auctions were down as well, according to the latest figures from The Warren Group.

Looking back at the top headlines from Melrose Patch for the month of July, in order, .

Business

There's a of Melrose in this week's Frugal Family.

Owners of local businesses: you get extra bonuses when you .

Police and Fire

Assault arrests, a Level 2 sex offender registered and more in .

Schools

MVMMS student Mia Francazio, our Whiz Kid of the Week, , an international Irish Step competition in Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 11 through Feb. 18, with other members of the O'Shea Dance Academy.

The Superintendent Search Committee said that and thanked those who have given their time and talents to help the search.

Super Bowl

Whether you're looking to impress the sports nerds in the room with a few of your own facts, or you're simply a true connoisseur of arguably useless knowledge, (along with kickoff time and more pragmatic info).

Soon-to-be-9 Melrosian Eric McGovern is going to the Super Bowl and blogging about it for Melrose Patch. !

We wanted to make sure that there was . Given that restaurants and bars are having food and drink specials—and even entertainment for the kids—it's a little more tempting to get out this weekend for the big game.

According to the last week's poll, it seems that most Melrose residents are either .

Opinion

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Local Voices Bloggers

It’s Super Bowl time again. And whether you’re a sports fan or not, you can probably learn something from the Super Bowl teams that you can apply to other endeavors—.

The Visual Geek Matt Wallace posts a .

Local artist Michele Lauriat is in the midst of a . Michele creates very large abstract landscapes. 

Ross Capobianco offers several tips for seniors (and everyone!) to help .

Building an effective LinkedIn network requires thoughtful communication, Arnie Fertig says.