Andover News

The town will have its first free H1N1 flu vaccine clinic Monday, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at the Andover Senior Center, 36R Bartlet St.

The Collins Center is alive with the "Sound of Music" this week. Nuns, Nazis and the von Trapp family have been rehearsing for months at Andover High School in preparation for their fall musical, "The Sound of Music," which opens tonight.

Austin Drama will present Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance! this weekend.

Teacher John Givens gives a hug to Claudia Bach, stepping down as superintendent in Andover.

A purchasing director of North Andover, MA, is accused of selling surplus town property on eBay and pocketing the profits.

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Andover Community Theater is working on its production of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" which will be performed at the Andover West Middle School.

To save money, the School Committee is considering permanently closing Shawsheen Elementary School in conjunction with a project to replace Bancroft Elementary School.

Andover Bookstore is the second oldest bookstore in the country. So its 200th birthday bash will be celebrated all month as the staffers don't want this party to be a mere flash in the pan.

If you go for an early morning jog along the Merrimack River Trail on Saturday, you might have to swim part of the way home.

A plan to close all but two schools this winter after normal school hours has some groups who rent the facilities feeling left out in the cold.

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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