Medford News

Residents have until July 25 to purchase commemorative bricks to help raise money for the restoration of the Marion Tavern at Grand View Farm.

School Superintendent Roy Belson announced on Tuesday morning that a new principal has been selected for the McGlynn Middle School .

The budget for the fiscal year beginning Wednesday will force eight teacher layoffs in Medford, Police Department cuts, and belt-tightening at the city's Department of Public Works, among other lowlights.

The state on Monday revoked the driver's license of an 86-year-old woman whose car allegedly struck and severely injured an elderly pedestrian in Melrose Sunday.

An extension of the city's contract with Trinity Ambulance is in the works, and it's expected to add $150,000 a year to city coffers.

It's the eighth consecutive year that Medford has received less local aid from the state than it did in 2002, and again the Mayor, School Superintendent, school staff, and School Committee members have struggled to put together a budget that stretches each dollar more than the year before.

Tufts University Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel will receive the 2009 Disability Awareness Award in a special ceremony on Wednesday, June 24 at Medford City Hall.

Medford's weekly local newspaper, the Medford Transcript , is being forced to close its Medford Square office and will work out of the Somerville affiliate office.

A pair of former Tufts University administrators have admitted stealing nearly $1 million from the school, Massachusetts prosecutors say.

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The mayors of Melrose and Medford, joined by a group of citizens, are suing state environmental officials, seeking to overturn a recent decision that would allow construction of an office and residential development adjacent to the Middlesex Fells Reservation without a full environmental review.

The North Korean regime risks a tougher U.S. response should it press ahead with trying to become a nuclear weapons state, an American special envoy said, amid reports the nation plans to test a third atomic bomb.

View of the beaver dam at Whittemore Brook, with materials from Beaver Solutions.

Babe Ruth Summer Baseball Season: From July 6th - August 13th, two games per week are played on either Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday nights at 5:30 pm .

The town soon will begin the search for new police and fire chiefs. Police Chief Francis Hart and Fire Chief Lee Callahan are both retiring next year, Hart in March and Callahan in July.

Maria Lisa Davis, a math teacher at McGlynn Middle School, died after an apparent heart attack Thursday morning in her classroom.

Through Friday, residents can order rain barrels at a discounted rate from the New England Rain Barrel Co.

Medford Police are on the lookout for a Level 3 Sex Offender accused of indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen.

DRASTIC measures such as river barrages and floating buildings may be needed to protect people in New York, Boston and other US cities on the Atlantic coast from flooding.

A medical risk, or just hot air? Legislators debate requiring schools to sterilize wind instruments Tim Sullivan , Kathryn Long, and James Ball of the Somerville High's band.