High school build-or-renovate survey due Oct. 9

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Andover seeks feedback on high school building options

Andover Public Schools opened a survey Oct. 1 on building a new high school or renovating the current one, citing increasing facility challenges. The survey takes less than five minutes, and feedback is due Oct. 9.

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Andover football visits Methuen tonight

Andover varsity football is scheduled to play away at Methuen at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.

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Andover volleyball plays at Tewksbury tonight

Andover girls varsity volleyball is scheduled to face Tewksbury Memorial away at 5:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.

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Andover freshman volleyball plays at Tewksbury

Andover’s freshman volleyball team is scheduled to play Tewksbury Memorial away at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.

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Newburyport freshman girls soccer visits Andover

Newburyport freshman girls soccer is scheduled to play at Andover in a nonconference match at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.

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Rockabye Beats brings family music to Memorial Hall Library

Rockabye Beats is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at Memorial Hall Library for children ages 0 to 5 and their caregivers. Registration is not required.

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Teens can play Super Smash Bros. at the library

Memorial Hall Library hosts Fun Fridays: Super Smash Bros. at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2. The drop-in program is open to tweens and teens in fourth grade and up.

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Trot for Tots features a 5K and family walk Sunday

The Trot for Tots takes place in Andover Sunday, Oct. 4. Race-day registration and packet pickup run from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.; the 5K starts at 10 a.m. and the one-mile family walk at 10:15 a.m. Proceeds support Partners in Child Development programs.

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Andover High interim athletic director to appear on “Love Is Blind”

Patch reports that Kerry Cashman, Andover High School’s interim athletic director, will appear on season 11 of Netflix’s “Love Is Blind.” Episodes are scheduled to begin releasing Oct. 14.

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Police and firefighters respond to several incidents in Andover

Andover police and firefighters responded Sept. 29 to a two-car crash that sent a vehicle into an Osgoode Street home, an OUI arrest, a car striking a Main Street light pole, a missing-child search, a brush fire along I-495 and a medical emergency.

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Andover Farmers Market returns Saturday

The Andover Farmers Market celebrates 20 years in 2026. It runs Saturday, Oct. 3, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, in the parking lot next to Town Park.

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