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Archive for May, 2009

In Tuesday’s newspaper, we reported on Ariana Kershenbaum, an 11-year-old from North Andover who will be performing in Boston Symphony Hall this weekend as part of “Share the Beat.”
The event raises money for transplant research and organ donation awareness.
Ariana received a kidney transplant from an anonymous donor when she was 8.
Well, we have video [...]

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Andover Town Meeting resumes tonight at 7 p.m. at the Richard Collins Field House house, located on the campus of Andover High School.
Residents only voted on 15 of 71 warrant articles during Tuesday’s opening night, so it’s expected a third night will be needed to  complete the warrant.
Night three will be held at 7 p.m. [...]

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LAWRENCE — Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm blaze that damaged two Tower Hill homes this morning.
One firefighter suffered a hand laceration, but other than that, no people were injured in the fire that began at 132 Byron Ave. and spread onto next-door 130 Byron Ave., but two cats died and a neighbor rescued a third, neighbors and [...]

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North Andover will go to the sheep Sunday.
The Sheep Shearing Festival is back on the Town Common from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Organizers had to cancel last year’s event.
A longstanding North Andover tradition, people can watch sheep shearing and herding demonstrations. There’s also pony rides, a craft fair, food vendors and herb sales.
The event is [...]

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The dean of the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover will grace the pages of Hustler Magazine for a question-and-answer interview.
Eight months after hosting a controversial conference at the Wynhdam Hotel in Andover intended to coordinate war-crimes prosecution against the Bush Administration, Lawrence Velvel will state his case against the former president in Hustler’s June [...]

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A gas leak outside the Mall at Rockingham Park caused the mall to be temporarily evacuated on the morning of Tuesday, May 5.
According to Fire Marshall Jeff Emanuelson, the fire department was called to the mall just after 11:30 a.m., for a reported gas leak outside the building. Fire crew found a significant natural [...]

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Marilinda Garcia of Salem, who won a vacant seat in New Hampshire State House in a special election last Tuesday, will be sworn in later this week.
Garcia, a republican,  has to wait until Wednesday to be sworn in because that’s the next time the Governor and the State’s Executive Council will meet.  The Council must [...]

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This may be the only time when parents actually encourage their children to sport pink or purple hair.
Nova Salon, at 595 Chickering Road, North Andover, will give people pink and purple hair extensions on Wednesday, May 6, for $10 with all proceeds going toward the cost of a new prosthetic leg for Justine Williams.
The fund-raiser [...]

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