Top 10 Melrose Headlines—April 2012

Here's a look at the top headlines from Melrose Patch for the month of April.

In order, these were the 10 most-read stories last month:

1) For our weekly Best of Patch Readers' Choice contest, we asked you which store was the best florist in Melrose. .

2) Our weekly round-up of news from Melrose's neighbors caught eyes with this story about a Malden convenience store owner who said he'd close up his shop after two armed robberies in three days. There's a happy ending, as the city helped coordinate local businesses who pitched in and remodeled the store, .

3) In this weekly contest we asked you to vote on the best breakfast in the city, and .

4) Roosevelt School Principal Kerry Clery is taking a curriculum director position in Groton-Dunstable Schools, Superintendent Joe Casey said, and Horace Mann School Principal Jeff Strasnick is taking the principal position at the Woburn Street and Wildwood Schools in Wilmington. The two principals join in their departure Hoover School Principal Dr. Dennet Sidell, (see number 10 below).

5) In our weekly poll, we asked which uneven road in Melrose rattles your car the most, makes you to tighten your seatbelt for the ride or just avoid the street altogether. .

6) : Every Saturday morning we round up the results of the past week's Readers' Choice contest from surrounding Patches, and this round-up of sit-down, table-service dinner spots clocked in at number 6 last month.

7) Our weekly look at the police log.

8) : Yet another addition of our weekly police log wrap-up.

9) : The regional round of Patch's Video Battle of the Bands contest ended with Melrose's own .

10) : Dr. Dennet Sidell is leaving Melrose after five years as principal of the Hoover School to take another principal position in Carlisle. Sidell will become the elementary principal at the Carlisle School, which is minutes from his home and family.