Andover News Archives

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.

Real estate bill due Nov. 2 The town of Andover has mailed the real estate tax bill for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010.

The event is now called the Taste of the Andovers, as North Andover restaurants joined the party last year.

A Regency Ridge mansion has indeed made it to the big screen as it's featured in the movie "The Invention of Lying" now playing at local theaters.

Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society will hold its annual fund raiser on Thursday, Oct.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Caritas Holy Family Hospital and the Merrimack Valley YMCA is encouraging women to become proactive about their breast health.

Officials in Andover, Mass., say they are using goats to keep one of the town's public meadows trimmed, even as they trim a bit of government spending.

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Celebrating its second year of combining the restaurants of Andover and North Andover, the Taste of the Andovers is ready to roll to raise funds for scholarships.

West Elementary School has been selected as one of a handful of schools to participate in National Grid's "Power to Save" regional school tour, an innovative, energy-efficiency education effort.

Erland Construction, Inc. was recently awarded a major renovation of the 33,000-square-foot Andover Inn at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.

On Saturday, as Town Manager Buzz Stapcynzski cuts the ribbon on Main Street, one snip of the scissors will signify $4 million and a decade of planning, redesign and construction of Andover's downtown thoroughfare.

Michael Kaluzny, an eight-year Andover resident and recent graduate of Phillips Academy, will spend for the next 10 months as a resident of Neustadt am RA benberge, Germany.

The Andover Health Department has announced its schedule for public flu clinics to provide seasonal flu vaccinations.

The second floor of an Olde Berry Road home was damaged after a fire broke out in a bedroom yesterday afternoon.

Andover will know where it could move its town yard by next week. This summer, the town requested bids for a new town yard site, and has seen interest from three different parties, said Hooks Johnston, town yard task force chairman.

An overgrown meadow on High Plain Road will soon receive much-needed landscaping from local goats.

Residents will wait two weeks for the downtown party called Andover Day to be rescheduled - a long wait that is a necessary evil, according to the president of the downtown business group hosting the event.

Several Andover teens have been named as semifinalists in this year's National Merit Scholarship Program.

The Merrimack Valley Chorus will host a "Performance Opportunity Program" for females during four consecutive Thursdays beginning Oct.

Parents are invited to the 12th Annual Preschool Fair on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at the Wyndham hotel on River Road in Andover.

Join the Andover Historical Society this fall as it launches its newest program, "Andover Stories: Presentations on interesting and obscure Andover history." This monthly program will introduce unique insights into the people, traditions and events that impacted the town, according to the organization located at 97 Main St.

The federal government is redrawing the map of the flood plain in Andover and other communities, which is expected to cause the insurance payments of some local homeowners to skyrocket.

AP: Londonderry man drowns in Mass. 3 minutes ago ANDOVER, Mass. A New Hampshire man apparently drowned when he fell off a dock into shallow water in a Massachusetts pond.

A plan to close the town's fiscal year 2010 budget deficit will be up to the voters Wednesday at Special Town Meeting.

Andover residents and others from around the area will be taking steps to end Alzheimer's at the Northeastern Mass Memory Walk through Andover on Sunday, Oct.

A man bolted from a traffic stop on High Plain Road yesterday morning, triggering a three-hour manhunt, and putting West Elementary School under lockdown for about an hour, police said.

Quiet Logistics, a company specializing in logistics solutions, has leased 38,400 square feet at 19 Connector Road in Andover.

A father-daughter duo from Andover and a local quartet are among the performers in the first ever Spotlight Cabaret to be presented as dinner theater at Maria's Restaurant in Haverhill on Oct.

A 20-year-old local man was arrested and charged with breaking and entering and arson after he broke into a school shed and lit it on fire and then shattered a large window at a nearby maintenance building this morning around 1:30. Daniel Campinell, 20, of 15 Woodhaven Drive, Andover, is being charged with two counts of breaking and entering in the ...

Interstate 93 may have a new exit into Andover in the next five years, and the towns of Andover, Tewksbury and Wilmington are planning what exactly could be built in the area that will be oped up to development.

Results of last year's Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test were released this month, and Andover's scores remained in the top echelon.