Home/Education/Parents Fight To Save Melrose Elementary School From Closure, Await Feb. 16 Vote Parents Fight To Save Melrose Elementary School From Closure, Await Feb. 16 Vote By Kala Parkinson February 12, 2021 Melrose Elementary School parents have been on edge over the past month, as their school district flirted with a plan to close the building as part of a plan to revitalize facilities across Putnam County. But the community responded to the plan with a coordinated fight to save the school, and the Putnam County School Board heard a revised bid to keep it open in a workshop Wednesday. “It’s become very evident that that school is tied directly into the very life of the community of Melrose,” Putnam County Associate Superintendent Thomas Bolling said.