Alice Averdeen and Jared Brown of New Jersey are spending the next few months in Andover living out of a converted school bus.
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Andover Selectman Justin Thacker reelected
ANDOVER — Selectman Justin Thacker was reelected Tuesday with 79 votes for another three years, Town Clerk Melinda Averill said in a text message. There were six write-in votes, she said. Eighty-five voters cast ballots. Thacker was elected in February to fill the seat held by Jeff Elkie, who resigned in November. School board representatives […]
Andover residents approve almost every article at town meeting on 2023-24 budget
Residents approved spending $900,000 on a bond to be used to reconstruct East Andover Road.
Andover posts warrant for Saturday’s town meeting
ANDOVER — Andover Selectmen Brian Mills, Joe Luce and Justin Thacker have signed a warrant for Annual Town Meeting to be held Saturday, June 10, at Town Hall at 8 a.m. The town’s fiscal year 2023-24 municipal budget begins July 1. Some highlights include: • Article 12 which recommends $70,786 be raised and/or appropriated for […]
Andover voters to decide on major road reconstruction
Residents are scheduled to vote on 63 articles including whether to raise $70,786 for the transfer station budget, an increase of $8,786 from this year.
Cuddling goats at Moondance Farm
ANDOVER — At Laurie and Howard Bailey’s Andover farm, whether a doeling or a buckling the kids’ names follow a familiar theme: Moon Beam, Moon Fire, Moon Shine, Moon Field, Moon Flurry, Moon Shadow, Moon Crown, Moon Tide and Moon Flame were all born at Moon Dance Farm. However one new kid breaks the mold. […]
Andover selectman Justin Thacker seeks reelection
Others seeking reelection on June 13 are school board representatives Timothy Akers and Karen Thurston, each for three-year terms.
Dispelling the myths of Andover’s Merrill-Poor House
ANDOVER — Merrill ancestor Nick Chandler recently led Bethel historian Will Chapman and others on a tour through the Merrill-Poor-Chandler House on South Arm Road in Andover. Chandler, who manages the home, gave its history and dispelled some of the myths surrounding the house that has been in his family for eight generations, beginning with […]
Happy Birthday to Arlene Harrington, soon-to-be centenarian
BETHEL — Arlene (Remington) Harrington was always full of moxie. It was that brazen attitude that is the reason she lost part of her left thumb, when she was only 4. “My brother was mowing the lawn and I wanted to help, and they wouldn’t let me,” she says. “When that blade come around, […]
Andover holding spring cleanup first two weeks of May
Transfer station hours have been extended to include Thursdays from noon to 4 p.m. for the next few weeks.