Helen Holt Brown, January 31, 2014

Helen Holt Brown, January 31, 2014

Hazel I. (Holt) Brown, 91, of New London, died Friday, January 31, 2014 at The Clough Center in New London. Hazel was born in Andover on November 27, 1922, the daughter of Jesse M. and Iva H. (Braley) Holt. She graduated from Concord High School in 1940. She worked for Fitch Murray Drugstore in Concord […]

Cheri Bates, January 27, 2014

Cheri Bates, January 27, 2014

Cheri P. Bates passed on to be with our Lord on Monday, January 27, at New London Hospital surrounded by her loving family. Cheri fought a six-year battle with Alzheimer’s and finally succumbed to pneumonia. Cheri was born in Salem, Massachusetts on April 3, 1967, the daughter of Loretta (Raymond) Bates and William S. Bates. […]

EAVP Gets New Space in a Loft

Room for Dramatic Play and Library

By Elizabeth Janvrin, Director

Happy New Year to all of the Andover community! We ended our year with a very generous, surprise Secret Santa gift. The week before our holiday break, we received a delivery. In our delivery was a classroom loft, which allows us to use an area of our classroom for two learning centers: Dramatic Play and […]

Kenneth Coombs, January 9, 2014

Kenneth Coombs, January 9, 2014

Kenneth Irving Coombs, 85, of Andover, passed away peacefully on January 9, 2014, at the Hospice House in Concord following a valiant battle with cancer. He was born in Bath, Maine, on December 13, 1928, to Charles A. Coombs, Jr., and Mildred Coombs Drury. He reported for US Air Force basic training in August of […]

Gina Reich on the Dean’s List

Liberal Arts major at Colby-Sawyer

Press release

Gina Reich was named to the Dean’s List for the Fall semester at Colby-Sawyer College in New London. She is a senior liberal arts major.  

Hazel Frink, December 19, 2013

Hazel (Holland) Frink, 79, of Woodstock, Connecticut, died on December 19, 2013 in Coventry, Rhode Island. She was predeceased by her husband of 55 years, Barrett Frink. He died on January 26, 2012. She was born on September 17, 1934 in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of the late Jerome V. and Minnicent “Penny” (Bates) […]

Graham Family Thankful for Jim’s Firefighter “Brothers”

"Jim would have been extremely proud."

On November 25, 2013, James Richard (Jim) Graham, a long-time resident of Andover, proud US Navy veteran, and volunteer firefighter attached to the Andover Fire Department, passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home on Plains Road. In accordance with Jim’s often-expressed wishes, on December 2 following a memorial service celebrating his life, Jim […]

Andover After School Program

By Diane Adams, Director

Happy New Year, everyone. We just came back from a long vacation with new projects and a few changes. We had a holiday celebration, and every child here got to pick a number and unwrap a present to keep here at the Annex. This is the fourth year in row that we have done this. […]