Andover News

More than 200 people braved the rain yesterday for the opening of the Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market.

An Andover family has been displaced from their home after a reported lightning strike caused the attic and second floor of 21 Fossen Way to become engulfed in a three-alarm fire Tuesday afternoon.

Local residents have another change to see Andover movie producer Laura Bernieri's much-talked about film, "Delta Rising," a blues-music documentary.

This week, selectmen approved a date for a Special Town Meeting this fall. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, Oct.

Burglars have hit four houses in town in recent weeks, stealing jewelry and a small sum of money, police said.

Fire tore through the attic of a Fossen Way house collapsing a portion of the roof during yesterday afternoon's thunder and lightning storm.

Monday marks the beginning of the work week for most folks. Appropriately, Monday is also the day "Pressed for Success" members meet at Merrimack College to talk about jobs and map out their plans for finding new ones.

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.