North Reading News

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By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – You may not need a helicopter to catch a high school soccer or football game next fall, after all.

“A reasonable amount” of parking spaces may be available during the fall season, members of…

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NORTH READING — Mount Carmel Chapter No. 230, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold a lobster roll luncheon sale on Friday, June 12 between 10:30 a.m. and noon at the North Reading Masonic Hall, 283 Park St.

Orders are now being taken for one’s choice of a lobster roll or chicken salad roll and…

Selectmen announce water use restrictions

Town of North Reading

May 29, 2015 Water Advisory

“This is a message from the Town of North Reading.

Reduced rainfall this spring has caused a shortage in available water. As a result of this shortage, the Town has instituted a Stage 1 water use restriction. A Stage 1 restriction…

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – In North Reading and a thousand other small towns across the nation on Memorial Day, traditional observances took on added poignancy this year…

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING — The Annual Town Meeting will get underway Monday, June 1 at 7 p.m. in the High School’s Performing Arts Center with a focus on financial matters, including the annual town operating budget, capital purchases, paying the bill for the snow and ice removal from this year’s record–setting winter (ouch…

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – The Selectmen urged compromise as the way to go on a citizens petition at Town Meeting that would rezone 16 parcels of land on Pluff Avenue and Fairway Road from Highway Business to Residential for what the residents say is an attempt to preserve the character of their neighborhood…

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – With a goal of bringing MWRA water to North Reading as the town’s primary water supply by 2019, the Selectmen held a workshop recently to brainstorm the path forward.

The board met with Rob Williamson and Paul Brickman, two environmental engineers from Wright-Pierce, the town’s consultants on the project…

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING — Sports fans are bracing for a parking crunch at the high school athletic fields this fall when the access road is rebuilt and the old North Reading High School building is razed.

Superintendent of Schools Jon Bernard, High School Principal A.J. Loprete and Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Wayne Hardacker…

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – The weather seems to have finally turned a corner and everyone is hoping the current stretch of fine, dry days continues on Monday, May 25 when the annual Memorial Day parade will step off from the town common at 10 a.m.

From the common, the parade will follow its…