Melrose Advances $10.3 Million Ell Pond Park Overhaul Plan

MELROSE — The city is advancing a proposed $10.3 million improvement project for Ell Pond Park that would add new pickleball courts among other upgrades, one of several city initiatives to surface this week alongside a new online tool aimed at making public records easier to find.

TOWN HALL City officials are moving forward with plans to transform Ell Pond Park through the proposed $10.3 million improvement project, which would include new pickleball courts, Patch reported. The project remains in the planning stage.

Separately, the city has launched a new website tool intended to make thousands of public documents easier for residents to find and search, according to Patch. The tool is billed as an effort to improve accessibility to public records held by the city.

COMMUNITY & ARTS One of the city's biggest annual celebrations of local businesses is returning later this month, bringing an evening of live music back to Melrose, Patch reported. The event has become a summer fixture for the city's downtown business community.