Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Police say that residents are informed of the new street parking ban.
Roughly a month and over a foot of snow later, the town now has the opportunity to look at how the new parking ban is working. In late November, selectmen approved a new parking ban that only prohibits street parking during "snow emergencies," opposed to the previous December through April ban that restricted overnight parking everyday. A parking ban is still in effect from Sunday and Monday's storm but police say that, judging by the recent snowfall, the parking ban seems to be working. "I think it's going very well," said Police Lt. James Hashem. "The few times that we've had to use it has been very successful." Hashem said that police wrote significant tickets during the first small storm on Dec. 23, totaling about 90 tickets. But the …
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Town of Andover Police Dept
32 N Main St, Andover, MA
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
It has been an exciting seven days since AndoverPatch officially opened its virtual doors and began offering residents a hub of online news for Andover.
It has been an exciting seven days since AndoverPatch officially opened its virtual doors and began offering residents a hub of online news for Andover. The holidays are now in full swing and some fall sports teams are saying goodbye to fantastic seasons as winter teams prepare to start their own. The town is gearing up for the vote on a $44.6 million school building project and safety officials began a pilot program giving residents more lenient winter parking bans. The Andover community enjoyed a top notch Holiday Parade last week with Santa Claus on the fire engine and an impressive spread of dancing elves, among many other parade participants. Holiday Happenings this past Friday transformed the downtown into a holiday extravaganza, …
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Bancroft Elementary School
15 Bancroft Rd, Andover, MA
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TD Bank
61 Main St, Andover, MA
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Eugene V. Lovely Memorial Field
80 Shawsheen Rd, Andover, MA
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Phillips Andover Academy
180 Main St, Andover, MA
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
When the plows aren't running, your car doesn't have to move.
Parking in Andover just became a little bit easier after the town decided to try out a pilot program that restricts street parking only when necessary. The program, presented to selectmen by Police Chief Brian Pattullo late last month, will essentially lift the previously enacted winter-long street parking ban from 1 a.m. to 6 p.m. Instead, from Dec. 1 to April 1, motorists will only have to move their cars off the street when the Police Department declares a Snow Emergency Parking Ban. The previous overnight ban stated that, from Dec. 1 to April 1, motorists could not park motor vehicles on the street between the hours of 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Chief Pattullo told selectmen the current ban is cumbesome for residents and that the new pilot …
Kevin Norris
12:41 am on Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Thank you Town of Andover. It's about time this issue was addressed. more ›