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🌱 Patch AM: Melrose School Waiting To Open New Playground To Students Months After Tragedy

Coming up on the Melrose Patch calendar: Coins, Stamps & Collectibles: Free Appraisal Day at the Spellman Museum

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Greetings Melrose! We're your go-to source for what's happening in town. Read on to get plugged in! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Winthrop School playground stays closed as tree safety review continues
  • How could Melrose's electricity plan change—and what can you say?
  • How Saugus' new veterans officer could affect services for Melrose vets

Also on today's calendar: Coins, Stamps & Collectibles: Free Appraisal Day at the Spellman Museum and 11 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: An afternoon shower or two, with a high of 83 and low of 53 degrees.
  • Saturday: Mostly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 70, low: 46.
  • Sunday: Periods of sun, with a high of 64 and low of 50 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Melrose School Waiting To Open New Playground To Students Months After Tragedy (patch.com) — Families in Melrose's Winthrop Elementary community are watching a new playground go up months after a tragic tree collapse killed a nine-year-old student, but the area will stay closed for now. City officials are waiting on an independent arborist report about trees on the neighboring Phineas Upham House property before reopening, even though trees on school grounds have already been inspected and addressed.
   

• Melrose Residents Asked To Weigh In On Community Power Changes (patch.com) — Melrose residents are being asked to review and comment on proposed changes to the city's Community Power electricity aggregation plan during a 30-day public review period ending Oct. 30. The revisions aim to align Melrose's program with new state guidelines, potentially affecting reporting, flexibility, and how local renewable options like Melrose Local Green are offered and updated.
   

• Eager to help Saugus Veterans (advocatenews.net) — Melrose veterans may notice changes in regional support as Saugus now has a full-time Veterans Service Officer, ending the previous shared arrangement with Wakefield and Melrose. The new officer, retired Army Colonel Joseph Connell, is expanding job resources and planning monthly coffee meetings and updates to better connect North Shore veterans and their families with benefits and services.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • 1,000 Runners Expected to the Starting Line for the Melrose YMCA Spooky Sprint 5k! —Sandy St. Louis Read on Patch
  • Albertsons Company posted a job opening for Bookkeeper in Melrose. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Malden

  • Malden City Council working on plan to address safety issues arising from use of electric-powered e-bikes, scooters (advocatenews.net)

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Medford

  • Citywide Yard Sale Returning To Medford (patch.com)

Ok Melrose! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig?" — Because he was such a boar! (Thank you Theresa H. for sending it in!)
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