North Reading News

Published in the May 5, 2016 edition

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING —The School Committee unanimously approved the school department’s fiscal year 2017 budget totaling $28,546,142 on Monday.

The FY’17 school budget represents a 3.8 percent increase ($1,051,068) over the $27,495,074 school budget for FY’16.

Finance Director Michael Connelly said the FY’17 school budget includes…

Published in the May 5, 2016 edition

NORTH READING — The second informational workshop on the town’s plans to secure its water supply future and plan for any future potential wastewater service will be held Wednesday, May 11 at 7 p.m. in the Distance Learning Lab of North Reading High School.

The first session attracted…

Published in the May 5, 2016 edition

Published in the April 28, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – Opponents of the Kinder Morgan gas pipeline that was planned to cut a route through North Reading savored the company’s decision last week to pull the plug on the controversial plan, even though they know this may only be a temporary reprieve…

Contested races for Selectmen, SC

Published in the April 28, 2016 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – Contested races in North Reading’s annual town elections have become increasingly rare in recent years, but the ballot in next Tuesday’s balloting, May 3, is a two-for, with competition for both the Board of Selectmen and School…

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