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UpdatedThu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:02 am ET Reply (Mike Carraggi/Patch) MELROSE, MA — When Councilors Shawn MacMaster and Cory Thomas pitched their emergency order last week to require some developers to report weekly acoustic monitoring data to the city for public consumption, they said the developers were already recording the data and it would cost them nothing extra. This order was just to help the city enforce what the developers already agreed to — which is keeping track of the noise coming from some larger construction projects. But a letter from an attorney for one of the projects read...
Braithwaite, Kelly, Reid Keep Leads In Final Evanston Vote Count Patch 1 hr ago Jonah Meadows © Jonah Meadows/Patch Tuesday was the last day for votes to be counted in the April 6, 2021, consolidated elections. The Cook County Clerk's Office plans to certify final results prior to April 27. EVANSTON, IL — Two weeks after last day of voting in the April 6 municipal elections, the Cook County Clerk's Office has released a preliminary final count of ballots, which is scheduled to be certified by Tuesday. The results (below) show four new aldermen now set to join five incum...
UpdatedMon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:36 am ET Reply(1) This 2018 photo shows construction at 419-429 Main St., one of the major projects that have taken place in Melrose in the last few years. (Mike Carraggi/Patch) MELROSE, MA — The City Council is poised to pass an emergency order requiring many construction projects to provide noise monitoring reports to the city, which must then make the information available on its website. The proposal from Councilors Shawn MacMaster and Cory Thomas comes after what they said have been hundreds of complaints about relentless construction noise at a time when...
UpdatedWed, Jan 27, 2021 at 8:03 pm ET Replies(13) Melrose has all but done away with Columbus Day. (Mike Carraggi/Patch) MELROSE, MA — Two city councilors were notably absent from the long list of elected officials who supported Mayor Paul Brodeur's proclamation Wednesday to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on the day traditionally reserved for Columbus Day. Councilors John Tramontozzi and Cory Thomas did not join nine other councilors and others in backing Brodeur's proclamation, which did not erase Columbus Day as it is a federal holiday, but made clear an intent to instead celebrate and...