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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: Top Story
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False Report Links Lewiston Shooter To Andover
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Primrose School of Andover at 503 South Main Street said the school was in lockdown for about 30 minutes after a "community member there may be a threatening person in the area."
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ICYMI: Special Town Meeting
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Finance Committee Rejects New School Article
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The push to build a new Andover High School had its biggest setback to date as the finance committee voted to not recommend special town meeting approve spending $1.3 million to complete a detailed design of the $451.5 million building.
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New AHS Backers Mobilize Support
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Residents supporting the proposal to build a new, $451.5 million Andover High School are putting up lawn signs and taking to social media to rally support ahead of a Nov. 20 special town meeting with the potential to kill the project.
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Chair: Town Facing Bond Downgrade, Even Without New AHS
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"It's not clear to me matters much. we're cloaking this in fiscal responsibility, I think we really have to consider how responsible that is," Tracey Spruce said. "If this is not the project that does it, something else will."
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No Teacher Contract After 13th Bargaining Session
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Andover Public Schools is reviewing the latest counterproposal presented by the union that represents the district's teachers during the 13th bargaining session between the two sides Wednesday. The district will respond to the latest proposal on Nov. 8 and will discuss the response at the next bargaining session with the Andover Education Association on Nov. 14. "We are hopeful that …
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New West El Gets Second Elevator
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When the project first went over budget last summer, the West El building committee closed a $5.5 budget gap by making about 25 changes to the design, including the "difficult decision" of removing one of the schools' two elevators.
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Andover Police Log, Oct. 6-23
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Among the calls that kept Andover police busy in recent weeks: A man yelling racial slurs in a Main Street store, a man who got lost in Harold Parker State Forest, and a threat written in the girls' bathroom at Andover High School.
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Gillette Moving 450 Jobs, Razor Production To Andover
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The reorganization will bring Gillette's total Andover workforce to about 650 employees while ending more than a century of razor manufacturing in South Boston.
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This Week In Andover, Oct. 29-Nov. 5
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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.
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This Week’s Listings
Government & Community Meetings
None.
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At the Robb Center
10 am: DMC
10 am: Scale Modeling
10 am: Open Art
10 am: Blood Pressure Clinic
1 pm: Duplicate Bridge
2 pm: Ping Pong
4 pm: Flu Shot Clinic
6 pm: LBGTQ+ Social
(see the Robb Center newsletter for more info)
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Government & Community Meetings
None.
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