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Downtown Andover could see more pay and dispay parking units. Andover selectmen will be asked this year to replace parking meters behind Old Town Hall with pay-and-display parking units, and to move the existing meters to the library parking lot, at a cost of $60,000. Town Manager Buzz Stapczynski released his Capital Improvement Program this week, ...

RISO, Inc., a leader in digital printing technology, announced today that it has donated a fully configured "see-through" HC5500 high-speed inkjet printer along with service and supplies to the Museum of Printing in Andover, MA.

The Andover Bookstore, the second oldest continuously operating bookstore in the country and the oldest establishment in Andover, will celebrate its 200th birthday next Thursday, Nov.

Andover residents Deb and Steve Rusckowski were given the Service Club of Andover's "Make a Difference" award recently for their tireless work and philanthropy, including "a commitment to providing quality healthcare and education to the sick and the poor in the Boston area and in Haiti, Ireland and Kenya," according to a club release.

Andover senior Jenn O'Connor will appear in Lawrence Academy's production of Moliere's Tartuffe this week, on Nov.

Andover resident Kathleen Dalton is among the cast of Theatre III's production of "City of Angels," opening this Friday, Nov.

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The average resident will pay $32 more on their water bill beginning Dec. 1. The Board of Selectmen unanimously raised the water rate Monday night from $2.65 per 100 cubic feet to $2.92. The average annual household water bill in town is now expected to increase from $318 to $350. Selectmen also raised the water rate in July 2008.

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Recently, I asked a friend to show me his favorite new iPhone apps. He shrugged and said he didn't have any.

Residents of a neighborhood dotted with million-dollar homes are continuing their fight against a recently-expanded development proposal in the south of town.

Andover will know who will be running the town for the next five years by March 2010.

The fall season always steps off in high fashion as the popular women's group in town, The Andona Society, hosts an annual fashion show.

The "Greening Andover" event on Oct. 24 brought together nearly 100 participants, including residents, business owners, and town leaders to hear from representatives from Sierra Club, National Grid, Bay State Gas, and the Massachusetts School Building Authority about ways that they, and Andover, can be more energy and resource efficient.

What Massachusetts community started a charter school in the 1970s? It was part of the public schools.

Andover now has four options for where it could move its town yard. With bidding closed, Andover has received four offers from land owners willing to sell their parcels, including two West Andover sites not previously on the table.

Ex-head football and baseball coach at Andover High School Ken Maglio said he finally gets to meet with the School Committee to find out why he was not rehired just six weeks before this year's football season started.

The FBI has released photographs in hopes they will generate tips from the public as to the identity and location of the subject who is believed to be responsible for three recent bank robberies.  The Merrimack Valley Credit Union on Osgood Street in North Andover was held-up on AUgust 17th, the Citizens Bank branch on Main Street in Sharon on ...

With the death of Theodore R. Sizer, precollegiate education has lost one of its most influential thinkers and a founder of the contemporary movement to improve schools.

From a North Andover apartment complex, Rancis Osiris Santana allegedly sold cocaine that he had smuggled from Mexico to many on the North Shore, a business that ended when he and six others were arrested earlier this month, according to federal authorities.