Condensed from approved minutes: APPROVED ANDOVER PLANNING BOARD MEETING MINUTES October 24, 2017 Members Present: Nancy Teach, Chair; Randall Costa, Vice-Chair; Paul Currier; Art Urie; Jon Warzocha; Doug Phelps; and David Blinn, Ex-Officio Also present for duration of appropriate items: Dave Powers, Zoning Administrator; Pat Moyer, Zoning & Planning Coordinator; Brian MacKenzie; AJ Giglio; Anna […]
Condensed from approved minutes: _____________ Members present: Nancy Teach, Chair; Paul Currier; Art Urie; Jon Warzocha; and David Blinn, Ex-Officio Also present for duration of appropriate items: Dave Powers, Zoning Administrator; Pat Moyer, Zoning & Planning Coordinator; Brian MacKenzie; AJ Giglio; Anna Warzocha and Josh MacKenzie Minutes of September 26 2017 Urie – Motion to […]
Meeting convened at 6;30 PM Condensed from approved minutes:. Members Present: Marj Roy, Town Administrator; Vicky Mishcon, Select Board Chair; Dave Blinn and Jim Delaney, Select Board; John Thompson, Road Agent; Peter Zak, Chuck Keyser; Adam and Christine Sloan, Birds Eye View Aerobotics; Richard Croteau, Joanne Stevens, Mike Browall, Bridge Road residents; and Jared Reynolds, […]
Day of the dead
The 5th grade class at AEMS spent the last month learning about the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead in their art class. They each createdtheir own 3D sugar skull masks, using plaster wrap and paint. At the end of the project, the 5th grade class got to experience the holiday with a day […]
The fall trimester at Proctor saw local students thrive on the athletic fields for the Hornets. With thirty-six Andover residents enrolled at Proctor, a remarkable twenty competed at the varsity level during the fall season. Proctor’s boys’ varsity soccer team, in particular, was a bastion of local talent with 13 of its 22 members […]
Donna P. Thatcher EASTON Donna P. Thatcher, 67, of Easton, passed away on Sunday, November. 12, 2017 at home. Born on October. 20, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of the late Willis H. Ploof and Rita Turcotte Ploof. Donna earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Rochester. She spent her early […]
38th anniversary of kayakers on New Year’s Day
Franklin – 2018 will start with a thrill in Franklin on Monday, January 1st. This year marks the 38th anniversary of kayakers splashing and slicing through snow and ice-filled class IV rapids on New Year’s Day. Each year more spectators gather to see such a sight. Downtown businesses will be open for eating and shopping. […]
John Bryant won patents in textile manufacturing
Today we tend to think of the Industrial Revolution as an urban phenomenon, a great social and cultural change associated with the rise of the “mill towns” of New England. The places that epitomize that revolution in our regional landscape would then seem to be the planned factory cities on the Merrimack River, preeminently Manchester, […]