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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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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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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Melissa Halstrom, of North Andover, is set to go on trial tomorrow for allegedly running a
prostitution ring out of her Elm Street home.
Police arrested her back in September 2007 after one of her “call girls” went to police.
Police say Halstrom employed four girls ranging from 16 to 18 years old. One girl was a 17-year-old [...]
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A jury just found Latin Kings gang member Christian “King Joker”
Almonte guilty of first degree murder in Superior Court.
Almonte, 26, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
He was found guilty of murdering his secret lover Willie Escobar, a
41-year-old Methuen delivery man, stabbing him more than 20 times on Feb. 24, 2008.
It took the jury [...]
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