It's 72 hours til Christmas morning. Are you done? If not, where locally do you plan to go for last-minute gifts?
- LOCAL CONNECTIONS
- Chris Helms
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
If you celebrate Christmas and still have shopping to do, this is crunch time. Just three days left until Christmas morning. Retailers are happy this year because of the way the calendar falls. It provides an extra full day of shopping versus last year, when Christmas Eve fell on a Saturday. So tell us, North Shore. Are you done shopping? If not, where will you be going this weekend and Monday? Here are links to stories Patch has done about go-to-places in our towns and cities for last minute Christmas shopping: Tell us about your favorite local businesses for last-minute gifts.
Bramanti and the Warriors hold off North Andover 63-60 in the Christmas Tournament Final.
It was Scarlet versus Golden, the Cavalry versus the Haak's Nest, Karalis versus Bramanti, Knights versus Warriors, and Andover versus North Andover. With tons of bragging rights on the line, not to mention the tournament championship, Andover took down North Andover 63-60 in the 36th Annual Greater Lawrence Christmas Tournament. Andover took the gold in the Christmas tournament for the first time since 1994 to break a 16 year drought. Here are some photos from the monumental victory.
Tournament MVP Joe Bramanti leads all scorers to take down North Andover 63-60 in Christmas Tourney Final.
- SPORTS
- Jay Oza
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Friday, December 31, 2010
The basketball gods gazed below and smiled happily on the town of Andover this week as the boys on Shawsheen Road delivered a Christmas tournament title to their fans, a gift far more special than one found under trees and wrapped in colorful paper and ribbon. On the back of its senior scoring machine and tournament MVP Joe Bramanti, the Andover High School Golden Warriors captured their first Christmas Tournament trophy since 1994 in a barnburner of a final at Lawrence High School on Thursday night. Andover had a stranglehold on the game until the final moments when the Scarlet Knights stormed back and threatened to capture the crown. In the game's final minute, a couple of free throws by senior Brian Salvesen made North Andover head …
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The mall be gone, Andover's shopping scene leaves nothing to be desired.
Here we go. It is the second week in December and, for many, that means a full court press to get holiday shopping done. It is hard enough to figure out what to buy our friends, family, loved ones, cherished teachers and service providers, but what is worse is that dreaded trek to the mall where parking and personal space are painfully diminished with each passing day. Thankfully, Andover has many wonderful retail options that offer shoppers, not only, an enjoyable shopping experience but some unique gift alternatives that even the most indulged recipients will appreciate. Five fantastic places to shop in Andover in lieu of the mall are: Izzy's Emporium – 21 Barnard Street You may know Izzy's for its collection of fine jeans, but …
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Izzy's Emporium
21 Barnard St, Andover, MA
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Carina & Co.
3 Barnard St, Andover, MA
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General Goods
93 Main St, Andover, MA
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Learning Express
32 Park St, Andover, MA
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Andover Bookstore
89 Main St, Andover, MA
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Scrooge
1:11 pm on Monday, December 24, 2012
I tried to finish my shopping...but dam surveillance cameras as so getting better with technology more ›