$10 Bike Helmets, a Farmers Market & Today in City History

1. Cooler Thursday: Thursday will be overcast with a 20 percent chance of rain and cooler highs near the mid-70s.

2. Water flushing program: Don’t forget the city’s annual water flushing program is underway. Here’s a schedule with information on when your street may receive service interruptions.

3. Cheap bike helmets: The Melrose Health Dept sells bike helmets for just $10, and are available in a range of colors and sizes - from toddlers to adults.

4. Farmer’s Market today: Get ya kale heah - the Melrose Farmers’ Market will be held from 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Bowden Park. If you can’t make it today, the program will continue to run every Thursday through Oct. 26.

5. This day in Melrose history: A few interesting tidbits from town history on July 25:

• 1892: The Boston Daily Globe reports a “lively town meeting” over railroad construction that blocks residents from accessing a long-time shortcut to the city’s train station.
  
  The Board of Aldermen pass a resolution for the Maine and Boston Railroad Co. to remove their new construction, and a company representative promises to “remedy the matter in some way satisfactory to the people of the town.”
  
  
• 1925: Police take their search for a man who abducted and assaulted an eight year old Melrose girl to Wakefield, where investigators then believed he lived.
  
  Police later arrest William F. App, of Medford, whom the victim and other witnesses positively identify as her assailant. While out on bail, App strikes again, this time assaulting the 14-year-old daughter of a Winchester selectmen.
  
  
• 1926: Melrose gang leader Clifford Blauvelt is arrested for assault and battery on a police officer. A judge later bans the Nova Scotia native from the United States for five years, after prosecutors argue his deportation would likely lead to the dissolution of his “particularly obnoxious” criminal organization.