North Reading News

Published in the April 28, 2016 edition

NORTH READING — The North Reading Health Department and the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project will be hosting a community public health informative and educational presentation on the biology of mosquitoes and ticks, the diseases that they carry, what is being done to control mosquitoes, a review of…

Published in the April 28, 2016 edition

Published in the April 28, 2016 edition

(Editor’s Note: May is Melanoma Awareness Month. The following article was written by Kate (Wohlfarth) Beland, a Stage 3 Melanoma fighter with a mission to touch as many people as possible and raise awareness about the disease. A 1993 graduate of North Reading High School, Beland will celebrate…

Published in the April 21, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – Suppose they gave…

Published in the April 21, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – June Town Meeting is still six weeks away and none of the town budgets, including the school department, have been nailed down yet, which is another way of saying everything remains a work in progress.

Nowhere on the general government side of…

Published in the April 21, 2016 edition

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING — The High School’s proposed student parking fee is inching closer to being placed on the chopping block, even though it will add $45,000 to next year’s budget gap of more than $350,000.

Superintendent of Schools Jon Bernard and Finance Director Michael Connelly…

Published in the April 21, 2016 edition

Published in the April 14, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – It’s been a long time since Town Meeting needed more than one perfunctory session to wrap up all of the town’s business, even in the spring, when the warrant is heavy with budgets and long-term financial decisions.

Well, if that streak of…

Published in the April 14, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – Sixth District Congressman visited several towns in the area on Saturday, including a stop in North Reading, where he met with about 30 constituents in town hall and answered questions on a wide range of topics, including funding for persons with disabilities…

Published in the April 14, 2016 edition

NORTH READING — Police Chief Michael P.  Murphy reports that the North Reading Police Department filed charges against a woman for texting while driving after…

Published in the April 14, 2016 edition