Update from Methuen budget land
The legions of band students and parents who crammed all the Methuen School Committee meetings this month can claim victory now that School Committee members unanimously approved a budget tonight that fills two music teaching jobs Superintendent Jeanne Whitten had planned to leave vacant.
Officials also hope to save the jobs of program [...]
Methuen - Mayor William Manzi, Superintendent Jeanne Whitten, teachers union President Donna Gogas and School Committee members met for more than three hours today.
The teachers insisted that they will not give up the raises they’re slated to receive next year, but they came up with other ways to save money and help the school budget, [...]
The thought of sitting through a three-hour budget meeting at 9 a.m. on Saturday is enough to horrify most people.
But you didn’t need coffee to stay awake at today’s City Council hearing in Methuen.
While the council took a short recess, Chairwoman Deborah Quinn and
council hopeful Jack Burke (a rival of Quinn’s) stood in front of a reporter [...]
Officials expect a huge crowd for tonight’s Methuen City Council budget hearing at City Hall.
Mayor William Manzi plans to tell councilors that he has reached one-year agreements with seven of the city’s nine municipal employee unions. The police patrolmens union has not reached an agreement with him, so Manzi plans to cut 20 cops, he says.
Look for more [...]
NORTH ANDOVER - Alyssa Manzi and Gary Ritter are one step closer to an all expenses paid wedding and honeymoon on the “Today Show.”
The North Andover natives are one of three couple vying to win “Today Throws a Wedding.”
Manzi, 30, a public relations executive and former New England Patriots cheerleader, and Ritter, 27, an energy [...]
Andover Town Planner Lisa Schwarz has released the summer schedule for the Main Street (Route 28) construction project.
Work this week included pouring concrete sidewalks at Elm Square, Old Andover Village and Harding Street; installing new traffic signals at Elm Square; and paving North Main Street with a top coat of asphalt.
Drainage work on Chestnut Street was also [...]
The public has until about 2:15 p.m. today to get to the Methuen Senior Activity Center to see the 2008 NBA championship trophy won by the Boston Celtics, according to Sue Foster of the senior center.
The center is located at 77 Lowell St.
Board games and action movies collide in “Scrabble: The Motion Picture.”
This epic battle for possession of “the elusive Q” game piece between the Russians and Bridgewater State College Scrabble Team was written and directed by Andover native Alex Perry.
Perry, 21, and several of his fellow Bridgewater State classmates are off to Los Angeles Thursday for the International Grand Finale [...]
Want to learn more about the proposed Billerica Energy Center?
Thornton, N.H.-based developer DG Clean Power LLC hopes to build the natural-gas-burning power plant at 134 Billerica Ave. in North Billerica, near the Tewksbury line.
The 348-megawatt plant would only be used during times of peak electricity consumption, such as heat waves and long periods of extreme cold.
But [...]
The day before the New Hampshire Senate was set to vote on the state’s budget plan, which was amended in a senate committee to include installing 13,000 slot machines in the state as a source of revenue, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte sent the following letter to at least one New Hampshire Senator:
Dear Senator Gallus:
Tomorrow, you [...]
