Andover News

Even if it ain't Baroque, he'll still fix it. That's because fiddling with wood has always come naturally to Jim Robinson, a boyhood whittler who eventually gave up construction work for something completely different.

Nashua's incoming superintendent said negotiations are progressing on a contract with the Board of Education.

Rebecca Rule E-mail Web site RSS Feed Rebecca Rule, author of "Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller's Guide to New Hampshire," spends a lot of time on the road, traveling to her wicked funny performances throughout the Granite State.

The Greater Derry Londonderry and Greater Salem chambers of commerce Southern New Hampshire Golf Classic, 7:30 a.m. at Campbell's Scottish Highlands, 79 Brady Ave.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 DOVER - Tucker Pearson of Dover Point Road was voted by his fellow classmates and faculty to give the Senior Speech at Proctor Academy's commencement on May 30.

The following item was recorded in the log of the Newbury police: Eliot Sherr, 57, 205 Andover St., Peabody, was issued a summons Monday at 6:58 p.m. on charges of driving with a revoked registration and driving uninsured.

Kevin J. Cahill: New Paintings & The Here & Now: Recent Mixed Media Works by David Fleming at The New England College Gallery May 29, 2009 Kevin J. Cahill: New Paintings & The Here & Now: Recent Mixed Media Works by David Fleming at The New England College Gallery June 5-July 17 Artist Reception: Friday June 5, 2009 5-7 P.M. HENNIKER, NH-May 6, ...

Rebecca Rule E-mail Web site RSS Feed Rebecca Rule, author of "Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller's Guide to New Hampshire," spends a lot of time on the road, traveling to her wicked funny performances throughout the Granite State.

If you live one, you might want to check out the Third Eye Blind concert on Thursday, May 14, at the Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach, N.H. Doors open at 6 p.m. Show starts at 8 p.m. General admission $29. Call 603-929-4100, or visit www.casinoballroom.com. Help out animals Sunday, May 17, is the annual Strut for Strays walk, from 11 ...

East Andover -- The Highland Lake Inn has been recognized by the Editors of Yankee Magazine in their annual Travel Guide to New England issue as the 'Best Away-From-It-All Lodging' in New Hampshire.

Some colleges are doing their best to minimize tuition and fee increases for the 2009-2010 academic year amid budget cuts and the economic downturn.

The Greater Salem Chamber of Commerce, through its Economic Development Committee, in cooperation with the Greater Derry Londonderry Chamber of Commerce, will present the second annual Economic Development Expo from 7:30 to 11 a.m. at Castleton Function Facility, Route 111.

Karen Busch Holman talks as though success just floated down in front of her like the little brown mouse who hangs suspended by a cluster of bright balloons in her latest watercolor.

Hands Down, I go to the Northern Rail Trail to bike and walk. It's been created over the past five years on the base of the old northern line of the Boston & Maine Railroad that goes through Andover.

Senator John F. Kerry will speak at the University of Massachusetts at Boston's commencement May 29, school officials announced yesterday.

A tough childhood in New Hampshire never stopped Orison Swett Marden from being an optimist.

A 13-year-old girl was a passenger in a Nissan involved in a high-speed pursuit with a state police cruiser this morning on Route 4, police said.

Colby-Sawyer College and the Lake Sunapee Regional Chamber of Commerce will co-sponsor the 14th Annual ChocolateFest on April 4. This tradition, anticipated by chocolate lovers across the region, will feature some of the Lake Sunapee area's most celebrated creators of chocolate desserts.

COMEDY AUDITIONS. RJ's Comedy Express seeks local comedic talent for open mike and comedy nights in the Merrimack Valley and Southern New Hampshire.

Andover residents moved quickly last night to pass a "lean, meaningful budget," in the words of budget committee Chairman Edwin Hiller.