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In today's newsletter:

• Melrose bookstore owner earns major immigrant entrepreneur honor
• How Melrose's tax override just put two new cops on duty

Also on today's calendar: Prince VFW Post 1506 Melrose Is Forming An Auxiliary! and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: An a.m. shower; partly sunny, with a high of 72 and low of 49 degrees.
• Friday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 69, low: 44.
• Saturday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 66 and low of 48 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Melrose Business Owner Honored With Immigrant Entrepreneur Award (patch.com) — Melrose readers can celebrate local entrepreneur Andrea Iriarte Dent, whose Main Street shop Molly's Bookstore has become a vibrant community hub and is now earning her a statewide immigrant entrepreneur award. The article highlights how her Melrose location hosts book clubs, children's storytimes, author talks, and fundraisers, underscoring the store's growing role in the city's cultural life.
   

• Melrose Police Swears In 2 New Officers (patch.com) — Two newly sworn Melrose police officers are filling positions restored by last year's $13.5 million Proposition 2½ override, which also funded school and public works jobs across the city. Both Melrose High graduates will now enter 12 weeks of field training, helping the department move closer to its budgeted staffing level of 50 sworn officers after years of vacancies and turnover.
   

📸 Around Melrose

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Melrose

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★ Featured events ★

Sunday October 11
• Prince VFW Post 1506 Melrose Is Forming An Auxiliary! →
  Lt. Norman Prince VFW Post 1506, 428 Main St, Melrose
  2:00 pm
• 2026 Peabody Community Market →
  Community Covenant Church, 33 Lake St, Peabody
  3:00 pm
Sunday October 18
• Austin Prep: Fall Open House →
  Austin Preparatory School, 101 Willow St, Reading
  10:00 am
Tuesday October 20
• Melrose Landlord - Energy Saving Workshop →
  Melrose Public Library, 69 W Emerson St, Melrose
  6:30 pm

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Other local events

Thursday October 8
• What's at Stake in the Midterms? Thoughtful Thursday with Sen. Jason Lewis →
  Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church, 70 W Emerson St, Melrose
  7:00 pm
Saturday October 10
• Jannie Ho Book Signing: Pumpkin & Beetle: Super Secret Garden →
  Molly's Bookstore Melrose, 667-669 Main St, Melrose
  10:30 am
Saturday October 17
• No Kings: Vote Early →
  Stoneham Town Common, 340 Main St, Stoneham
  10:30 am
• Author Event "What Marcel Found" with Cedar Pruitt →
  Molly's Bookstore Melrose, 667-669 Main St, Melrose
  10:30 am
• Mahjong Tile Painting @ Molly's Bookstore →
  Molly's Bookstore Melrose, 667-669 Main St, Melrose
  6:00 pm
• Children's Own School Open House →
  Children's Own School • 86 Main St • Winchester, MA
  9:00 pm
• Six Annual Sarah Bradlee Fulton Day →
  Medford's Historic Salem Street Burying Ground
  10:00 pm
Sunday October 18
• Author Event "Snickerdoodle" with Victoria Kann →
  Molly's Bookstore Melrose, 667-669 Main St, Melrose
  10:30 am

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Thank you 👏👏👏 to these businesses for making Melrose PatchAM possible:

• Boston Construct, LLC — (617) 697-1719
• Harbor View Real Estate Corp. — (781) 661-8021
• Austin Preparatory School — (781) 944-4900
• VNA Senior Living — (617) 776-9800
• All Sport Skills Training — (781) 268-8970
• Buyers Brokers Only, LLC — (978) 835-5906
• Noelle Salon — 7813249779

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🗞 Nearby News

Malden

• Malden River Works Park Officially Opens To The Public (patch.com)
• Malden Nonprofit Honors 22 At Annual Spirit Awards (patch.com)

Stoneham

• Cheapest gas stations in Boston (homenewshere.com)

Medford

• Medford Launches Study For Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?" — A chalk board (Thank you Charlie H. for sending it in!)
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