North Reading News

Published in the November 19, 2015 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING — The town’s new property tax rate for fiscal 2016 as voted by the Board of Selectmen will be $16.41 per thousand valuation, a modest drop of 21 cents, but most taxpayers will will still see an increase in their tax bills because…

Published in the November 19, 2015 edition

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING — Assistant Superintendent Dr. Patrick Daly has been named a superintendent finalist in the Tri–Town School Union, (not to be confused with Triton Regional High School), North Reading Superintendent of Schools Jon Bernard announced on Monday.

Bernard said Daly is one of two…

Published in the November 19, 2015 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING — About 200 local residents and their children turned out at the Batchelder School gymnasium…

Published in the November 19, 2015

Published in the November 19, 2015 edition

NORTH READING – Frosty’s Fair at the Union Congregational Church is only two weeks away and once again quarts of the pastor’s lobster bisque will be available. This is the same lobster bisque that many people in town enjoy at the church’s Lenten Luncheons each spring.

The bisque…

Published in the November 12, 2015 edition

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING — Northeast Metropolitan Regional Technical High School has begun laying the groundwork for either building or renovating a new school, school officials told the School Committee last week.

Northeast Metro Tech Superintendent Ted Nickole, Northeast Metro Tech Principal Dave DiBarri and North Reading’s…

Published in the November 12, 2015 edition

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING — Local students taking the 2015 MCAS exams continue to score higher than the state average in most categories, Assistant Superintendent Dr. Patrick Daly told the School Committee last week.

Unlike previous school years, only students in grades 5, 8, 9 and 10…

Published in the November 12, 2015 edition

NORTH READING — The Selectmen will hold their annual public hearing to set the real estate tax rate for Fiscal 2016 and decide the annual issue of whether to split the tax rate, which would shift the some of the tax burden from residences to businesses.

The hearing…

Published in the November 12, 2015 edition

NORTH READING — Due to a forecast of rain on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, the town’s annual Veterans Day ceremonies will be moved indoors to the Batchelder School gymnasium.

Doors will open at 10 a.m. and the ceremonies will take place at 11 a.m. as usual. The program of the day will take place just…

Published in the November 5, 2015 edition

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – “The World of Orchids,” the annual orchid show organized by the Massachusetts Orchid Society…

Published in the November 5, 2015 edition

By DAN TOMASELLO and BOB TUROSZ

LYNNFIELD — Energy giant Kinder Morgan’s community meeting on the proposed Northeast Energy Direct (NED) natural gas pipeline went off without a hitch at Spinelli’s Function Facility in Lynnfield Oct. 29.

Kinder Morgan held the event as it prepares to file with the…