North Reading News

Published May 14, 2020

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Published May 14, 2020

By JILLIAN STRING

NORTH READING — Refunds totaling more than $190,000 will be returned to families by the North Reading Public Schools for services not rendered due to the school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations Michael Connelly, the school department will be…

Published May 14, 2020

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — Positive progress is being made at the Royal Meadow View nursing home two weeks after the Board of Health issued an emergency order outlining changes it wanted to see enacted concerning daily operations due to rise in the number of residents and staff who had…

Published May 14, 2020

To honor this year’s high school seniors, we are planning to publish a 2020 Senior Class Supplement in June. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, school buildings across the state have been closed and there won’t likely be traditional commencement exercises we have highlighted in past end-of-the-school year publications.

So we are…

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170 total cases; 70 recovered to date; 13 confirmed deaths

Posted on: Monday, May 13, 2020

NORTH READING — As of Tuesday, May 12, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) has notified the town that there have been 170 cases of COVID-19 in North Reading to date, an increase of five new cases since…

Published May 7, 2020

Published May 7, 2020

By JILLIAN STRING

NORTH READING — With the announcement of school closures through June came questions about graduation and other senior week activities.

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Patrick Daly and Senior Class President Emily Kuperstein began to answer some of these questions during the School Committee’s remote meeting Monday evening.

“We can’t…

Published May 7, 2020

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — Former Select Board member and volunteer extraordinaire Robert J. Mauceri was remembered by his colleagues on the Select Board at the start of Monday night’s meeting.

Mauceri, 77, who dedicated 48 years in volunteer service to the town, starting with a sewer…

Published May 7, 2020

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — By now it is self-evident to all townspeople that the Special Town Meeting on Monday, May 11 to consider whether the voters wish to purchase the Seven Acres Poultry Farm on Concord Street has been postponed until late June (we think).

To make it official…