North Andover News

North Andover Purchasing Director Joseph Lydick embezzled $20,800 from the town to buy his girlfriend an engagement ring, the Eagle-Tribune reports, citing police records.

The company that owns the Brigham's Ice Cream stand in The Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem, N.H., yesterday announced that the chain of eateries it owns will declare bankruptcy.

Right now, if you want to learn about Level 2 sex offenders living or working in your town, you have to go to the police station and fill out a request for information.

Town Purchasing Director Joseph Lydick faces charges of embezzlement and larceny for allegedly stealing profits from selling used town equipment on the Web site eBay.com, police said tonight.

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The town of North Andover's purchasing director was arrested Monday. Joseph Lydeck is accused of using eBay to embezzle from the town.

It's the Merrimack Valley's own version of a Food Network Challenge. Four local bakers will compete at the Community Cooperative Preschool Saturday in a Gingerbread Showdown.

Anna Augusta and Patrick Coughlin had been searching for a Shiba Inu for years. Wanting to adopt a dog from an animal shelter rather than buy one from a breeder, the couple spent hours on pet-adoption Web sites hoping to find the small, Japanese breed of dog.

A penchant for seafood put a Lawrence man in handcuffs Tuesday. Jorge Aponte, 43, of 32 Lawrence St., was arrested and charged with two counts of shoplifting by concealment, larceny of property valued under $250 and assault and battery.

A man was knocked unconscious after he was attacked by three others at Bunkerhill and Park streets early Sunday morning, police said.

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.

One of the men credited with getting the beleaguered Falmouth High School project back on track committed fraud while attempting to secure an unrelated construction job, according to the state attorney general's office.

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.

Andover senior Jenn O'Connor will appear in Lawrence Academy's production of Moliere's Tartuffe this week, on Nov.

Mary Claire Kennedy said she's "most interested" in the Mango Grille at 585 Chickering Road as a possible new home for her Cedar Crest restaurant when the Lawrence landmark finally closes its kitchen a week from today.

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Questions that need to be asked about the North Andover CPA acquistion of Windrush Farm: The town is planning to spend $2.5 million of our property tax-funded community preservation money to purchase 160 acres of land on the farthest end of town bordering the Boxford state forest.

No criminal charges will be filed against a man accused of stealing money from a Tyngsboro restaurant.

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