North Reading News

Published in the December 22, 2016 edition

Published in the December 15, 2016 edition

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING — The school department is going to award $11,250 in stipends to eight school administrators for “special projects” undertaken, but the practice looks to be coming to an end.

Superintendent of School Jon Bernard recently proposed awarding the stipends to school administrators for working…

Published in the December 15, 2016 edition

By BILL LaFORME

NORTH READING — The effort to resolve the status of a liquor license  held by the former Tedeschi’s Food Market on North Street will continue Monday night when the Board of Selectmen holds a show cause hearing that could set the stage for the license reverting…

Published in the December 15, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING — More than any other time of year, the holiday season evokes memories of Christmases past and lost loved ones who have departed throughout the years. One of the most touching aspects of compiling the annual list of donations to the Transcript’s annual Neighbor…

Published in the December 15, 2016 edition

Published in the December 8, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – The planned repairs to the drainage system of the new high school and middle school were not able to be completed on schedule and will have to be continued in April, members of the Secondary Schools Building Committee learned last week.

Gilbane…

Published in the December 8, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING  — People sometimes wonder how their donations to the Neighbor Helping Neighbor Fund (which go directly to the Christian Community Service) are used to help our neighbors here in town who are experiencing difficult times. This is an actual story of a mother’s…

Published in the December 8, 2016 edition

 By BILL LaFORME

NORTH READING  –  Bishop Mark O’Connell has had a busy 2016, having become pastor at St. Theresa Parish in North Reading while also being elevated to the rank of bishop and serving as a judicial vicar in canon law for the Archdiocese of Boston…

Published in the December 8, 2016 edition

Published in the December 1, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING — North Reading Center came alive with trolley rides, bunnies and goats in the Historic District…

Published in the December 1, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – After taking the matter under consideration for a couple of weeks and reopening the public hearing last Monday night, the Selectmen voted 4 to 1 to deny the transfer of a beer and wine license previously held by Tedeschi Food Shoppe, 202…

By DAN TOMASELLO

Published in the December 1, 2016 edition

NORTH READING — Last week, a dozen parents met with the School Committee to discuss issues associated with recess for elementary students.

Sandra Road resident Tracy Conlon, a mother of two children currently attending the Batchelder School, recently sent a letter to the school board…