North Reading News

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING — A Hill St. resident whose property abuts the new high school building appeared before the Secondary Schools Building Committee last week to request a landscape buffer to screen the school from her backyard view.

Alison Carlson, 15 Hill St., said she’s had an ongoing list of concerns about the…

NORTH READING — The Aldersgate United Methodist Church along with the North Reading Community Chorale joyfully celebrated the inaugural concert given by the Chorale featuring the newly acquired…

NORTH READING — Chief Michael P. Murphy reports that the North Reading Police Department is seeking two suspects in connection with a recent breaking…

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING — The School Committee has been forced to allocate $14,030 recently to purchase athletic equipment that was supposed to be funded by the Athletic Boosters.

North Reading Athletic Boosters President John Norton was arrested and charged with larceny in October. The police department arrested Norton, 68, after an investigation revealed…

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING – Calling it “five days of a nightmare,” a group of Kristyn Lane residents came to the Selectmen last week to ask for their support in dealing with the town of Wilmington, which has plans to host their Fourth of July festivities at the Shriners Auditorium in 2015, for the…

NORTH READING — Winter doesn’t officially begin until Dec. 21, but the weather doesn’t respect the calendar and the town’s Department of Public Works has already had to plow the streets once, on Thanksgiving eve. Residents are reminded that overnight parking is prohibited on town streets from now until April 15.

These are the relevant…

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING — Over the weekend, Kinder Morgan Inc. announced a change of route for its proposed natural gas pipeline, bypassing several northern Massachusetts towns and veering into New Hampshire. But it does not appear the revised route will have any positive affect on North Reading, which remains in the path of…

By DAN TOMASELLO

NORTH READING — School Committee Chairman Jerry Venezia recently defended $19,536.66 in stipends issued to school administrators.

Caroline Road resident Ed Canney wrote a letter that appeared in the Nov. 13 edition of the Transcript that inquired why the school board decided to allocate the stipends to nine school administrators related to…

By BOB TUROSZ

NORTH READING — Former MDC police officer Dana Owen returned to North Reading recently to talk about his new book “Shotgunned” at…