North Reading News

Published in the March 8, 2018 edition

NORTH READING — This month, North Reading High School is joining 27,000 schools across the nation to make a difference and raise money to end blood cancer.

Led by the Interact Club, the “Pennies for Patients” fundraiser began this past Monday and will run through the end of…

Published in the March 8, 2018 edition

NORTH READING — The “Under Construction” free-for-all breakfast at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 235 Park St., is Saturday, March 10, from 8-10:30 a.m.

At Aldersgate’s monthly community free-for-all breakfast it is truly a feat to serve hot breakfast while the kitchen is being renovated. Come see how they…

Posted on: Thursday, March 8, 2018

Overnight snowfall has caused numerous trees and tree limbs to fall, blocking roads and bringing down utility wires. The public is asked to avoid travel while public safety, public works, and utility crews work to clear snow, trees, tree limbs, and wires from roads. If you do need to…

Posted March 2, 2018

NORTH READING — Police Chief Michael P. Murphy and the North Reading Police Department would like to advise residents to take caution Friday into Saturday as severe weather hits the region.

A powerful storm hit North Reading in the early hours of Friday morning and will continue into Saturday. Heavy rain,…

Published in the March 1, 2018 edition

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — For over half a century, the town’s residents have answered the call, literally, through the annual Dollars for Scholars Phone-a-Thon in support of providing scholarships to graduates of North Reading High School pursuing a college education.

Now, 55 years later, NRHS students…

Published in the March 1, 2018 edition

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — On Monday, Neal E. Rooney III pulled nomination papers to enter the race for one of two seats on the Community Planning Commission (CPC) in the May annual town election.

Rooney, of 13 Pomeroy Road, was first elected to the CPC back…

Another victory for girls’ ice hockey

Published in the March 1, 2018 edition

By JILLIAN STRING

NORTH READING — School Committee members agreed to revisit the athletic fees and co-op teams policy Monday night after concerns were raised regarding high user fee costs for the varsity girls’ ice hockey team.

The team currently participates in…

NORTH READING — We’d like to give a shoutout to North Reading Community Coffeehouse whose January show of local artists performing at the Flint Memorial Library, was filmed by NORCAM Public Access.

The show is currently airing on Comcast Ch. 8 and Verizon Ch. 26 on Thursdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m.

The next…

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Published in the February 22, 2018 edition

By MAUREEN DOHERTY

NORTH READING — In the wake of the latest school campus massacre – this time on Valentine’s Day at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 students and faculty members dead and 15 injured – Superintendent of Schools Jon Bernard…

Published in the February 22, 2018 edition

By MICHAEL GEOFFRION SCANNELL

NORTH READING — Last Thursday, Eric Evans gave a riveting presentation entitled “North Reading B-17 Crash Declassified: Secrets Revealed.” 

The event was presented jointly by the North Reading Historical Society and the Flint Memorial Library where a standing room only crowd filled the library’s…