Andover News

New parking fines may have residents thinking twice about where they leave their car.

A proposal by National Grid to increase the average residential customer's utility bill by 5.5 percent next year has come under scrutiny by the state Attorney General's office.

There will be no room at the inn until 2011. The upscale Andover Inn on Chapel Avenue on the campus of Phillips Academy closed yesterday, July 1, for a renovation project that will last 18 months.

ANDOVER, MA Standard Finishing Systems has christened a new 15,000 square-foot National Customer Demonstration and Training Center as part of a year-long renovation of their corporate headquarters.

A deaf American Sign Language teacher at Andover High School may lose her job because she has failed the English competency exam to become a certified teacher in Massachusetts.

The effort spearheaded by Jerry Silverman to raise the $3,000 needed to continue the town's popular July 4 pancake breakfast and Horribles Parade has not fallen on deaf ears.

Police Chief Brian Pattullo has proposed raising the fine for illegally parking in a handicapped space from $100 to $250, which the Board of Selectmen plans to discuss at its next meeting on July 6. Police issued 51 tickets for such violations last year, Pattullo told selectmen last week.

It's become as big a town tradition as the fireworks on the Fourth of July. The Kelly Miller Circus is coming to the North Andover Middle School fields for two days starting July 1. To usher in the Independence Day weekend, the circus has announced that all active duty military personnel and their families will get into the circus free of charge.

The Society for Historically Informed Performance of Boston is returning to Andover this summer.

Imagine hiking through cool, dark forests, by babbling brooks, silvery streams, and along a mighty river.

Months of trash talk may result in a decision to kick the current six trash-bag allowance to the curb at the June 22 selectmen's meeting.

Anthony, Matt, Mike and Brian Galluzzo will all be riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge in August, but maybe at different paces.

As the H1N1 "swine" flu outbreak has been elevated to global pandemic status, Andover Public Schools continue to see a spike in student absences due to flu-like symptoms.

Andover's BoomerVenture Campus, which offers activities designed to meet the needs and interests of residents in their mid-40s to mid-60s, plans to host two new yoga classes starting next month.

With dresses made of magazines and designs featuring henna tattoos and body paint, the Keep It Wild fashion show put on by Andover Youth Services has lived up to its name for more than a decade.

Calling its townwide reading program "Andover Reads" proved prophetic for Memorial Hall Library.

The Andover Police Department was recently awarded state accreditation again from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission.

Bernie Mango returns the nozzle after pumping gas in North Andover, Mass. Monday, June 15, 2009.

How much state funding will Andover lose this year? Which of your taxes will be raised? How will state employee benefits be reined in? The answers are largely in the hands of six state legislators.

The Andover teachers union has voted against taking less of a raise next year, saying the town's typical family income suggests it instead "could be exploring ways to raise more revenue." On Thursday, June 4, the Andover Education Association voted against reopening its contract, refusing to bow to the School Committee's request it consider salary ...