Welcome to the Sunday newsletter from Andover News. This email includes ICYMI: Andover Week In Review, recapping our top stories from the past week, and This Week In Andover, a listing of upcoming events in town.

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ICYMI: This Week's Top Stories

Andover Restaurant Inspection Reports For November

Andover Restaurant Inspection Reports For November
The Chateau, Elm Square Oyster Company, Grassfields, Oak & Iron, and OTTO were among the more than 20 establishments inspected by the Andover Health Division last month.

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ICYMI: Local Government

Flanagan Proposes $224.6M Budget With 5.7% Property Tax Hike For Average Homeowner

The budget outlined by Andover Town Manager Andrew Flanagan is preliminary and won't be finalized until Town Meeting approves it n May.
Flanagan Proposes $224.6M Budget With 5.7% Property Tax Hike For Average Homeowner

Andover Begins Work On Climate Action Plan

Andover Begins Work On Climate Action Plan
Andover is following up April's Climate Summit with a kickoff for the development of the town's Climate Action and Sustainability Plan on Monday.

Select Board Delays Decision On Tax Rates: Select Board Notebook

Catch up on everything that happened at Monday's Andover Select Board meeting at Wood Hill Middle school.
Select Board Delays Decision On Tax Rates: Select Board Notebook

Community Power Program Could Offer Benefits To Andover Residents As Utility Bills Soar

Community Power Program Could Offer Benefits To Andover Residents As Utility Bills Soar
Andover officials are hopeful the state Department of Public Utilities will approve a program that could save residents money on their electric bills and increase green power use in Andover by the end of the year.

ICYMI: Schools

Andover Students Get First Look At Electric School Buses

Trombly/NRT, the district's transportation contractor, added five of its 10 all-electric buses to Andover's fleet.

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Andover Students Get First Look At Electric School Buses

ICYMI: Around Town

Your News On Andover News

As a service to readers, Andover News will publish obituaries as well as engagement, wedding and birth announcements free of charge for Andover residents.

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Your News On Andover News

This Week In Andover, Dec. 11-18

Here’s the Andover News weekly rundown of government meetings, sporting events and activities happening in Andover. Send us details of your event for inclusion in the Andover News Calendar.
You can also view the calendar of events on our Website.

This Week’s Listings

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11
Holidays/Seasonal
1 pm: Elf The Musical at West Middle School
3-6 pm: Winter Wonderland Festival of Trees & Holiday Market

At Memorial Hall Library
1 pm: Board Games Club

Performing Arts
2:30 pm: Sunday Concert- Peking and the Mystics at Memorial Hall Library

Sports
9 am: AHS girls indoor track at Merrimack Valley Conference Invitational (New Balance Track)
1 pm: AHS boys indoor track at Merrimack Valley Conference Invitational (New Balance Track)
4:30 pm: AHS girls gymnastics vs. Methuen at Reading Gymnastics Academy

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12
Government
6 pm: Board of Health
7 pm: Select Board
7 pm: Kickoff meeting for the Climate Action and Sustainability Plan

At Memorial Hall Library
10 am: Meet-Up Monday
3 pm: Teen Weekly Craft: Friendship Bracelets
7 pm: English At Large Conversation Group
7 pm: DIY Hot Cocoa Jars

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13
Holidays/Seasonal
7 pm: Doherty Middle School Winter Concert

Government
9:30 am: Board of Assessors
6:30 pm: Preservation Commission
7:30 pm: Planning Board

At Memorial Hall Library
9:30 am: Wiggle Words
10:15 am: Toddler Tales
11 am: Little Listeners
5:45 pm: Make-It Take-It

Virtual Events
9:30 am: Virtual Dementia Dialogues on Zoom

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14
Holidays/Seasonal
7 pm: West Middle School Winter Concert

Government
11 am: CREST: Board of Directors
5:30 pm: Town Seal Review Committee
6:30 pm: Design Review Board Meeting

At Memorial Hall Library
9:30 am: Toddler Tales
10:15 am: Wiggle Words
11 am: Little Listeners
4 pm: Library Board of Trustees
4:15 pm: Legomania

Virtual Events
7 pm: Critique Group via Zoom

Sports
6:30 pm: AHS wrestling vs. North Andover
7:10 pm: AHS girls hockey vs. Shrewsbury at Breakaway Ice Center

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15
Holidays/Seasonal
7 pm: Wood Hill School Winter Concert

Government
11 am: Merrimack Valley Planning Commission
6 pm: Andover School Committee
7 pm: Investment Committee

At Memorial Hall Library
9:30 am: Wiggle Words
10:15 am: Toddler Tales
330 pm: Dungeons and Dragons for Teens (HS group)

Virtual Events
2 pm: Addison Gallery of American Art Tour – Virtual

Sports
3:30pm: AHS boys swim meet vs. multiple schools at Greater Lawrence Tech
5 pm: AHS boys and girls indoor track vs. TBA at AHS Field House
7:10 pm: AHS boys hockey vs. Waltham at Breakaway Ice Center

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16
Government
8 am: Economic Development Council

At Memorial Hall Library
12 pm: Pollinator Pathways

Sports
3 pm: AHS boys and girls skiing vs. TBA
7pm: AHS boys basketball vs. Haverhill

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10
At Memorial Hall Library
10 am: Saturday Stories
10 am: Junior Green Gatherings – Winter Gatherings
2 pm: Book Explorers

Sports
TBD AHS boys hockey at Shrewsbury
9 am: AHS wrestling at Londonderry
10am: AHS boys and girls indoor track vs. TBA at Reggie Lewis Track
3 pm: AHS girls hockey at Haverhill

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11
Sports
1 pm: AHS boys and girls track at Merrimack Valley Conference Invitational (New Balance Track)
3:30 pm: AHS girls gymnastics vs. Methuen at Reading Gymnastics Academy
Send us details of your event for inclusion in the Andover News Calendar.

Send us details of your event for inclusion in the Andover News Calendar.