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1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Bill Burt |Andover Townsman

Here we go ... again!Kelcey Dion and Ainsley Dion, the lacrosse playing sisters, face off again for their respective schools, Middlebury versus Colby. Been there. Done that. Eight times. But this matchup between the North Andover twin sisters has a lot more at stake. As in a potential national championship. AdvertisementTheir teams meet in the NCAA Div. 3 semifinals, the Final Four, today at 4 p.m. in Salem, Va.The winner stays, of course.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Angelina Berube |Andover Townsman

NORTH ANDOVER — NASA astronaut Suni Williams was honored at Merrimack College during commencement for the School of Arts and Sciences in the Lawlor Arena on May 15. Williams was the commencement speaker and also received an honorary degree. Merrimack College had 2,200 students graduating this year over its two-day commencement activities. “Boy, I’m much more comfortable on a space craft,” she told the graduates.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Bill Burt |Andover Townsman

ANDOVER — Kristina Rex was driving to work Thursday on her way to Dedham District Court to cover the Karen Read trial when her dad returned her call. “Dad, I need you to go to Whole Foods to pick up a cake for Dan (Lococo),” the Channel 4 news reporter from Andover said, referring to her husband while navigating a 90-minute, traffic-riddled drive. “They have a few left,” she told her father, John Rex. “But they won’t hold it.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Angelina Berube |Andover Townsman

ANDOVER — Lockheed Martin plans to lay off 64 employees at its Dascomb Road facility in July. The global security, defense and aerospace contractor filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice on May 6. The layoffs take effect July 5. The reduction of employees impacts less than 1% of the company’s workforce. Lockheed Martin has 121,000 employees and 350 facilities worldwide.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Angelina Berube |Andover Townsman

ANDOVER — On a rainy afternoon two days before Mother’s Day, a delivery person dropped off a vase filled with colorful flowers to Mary Beth Ellis and Eric Olson. The man handed them to Olson, looking at the flowers and said, “Happy Mother’s Day.”“I doubt it’s Mother’s Day related,” Olson said. “It’s OK,” Ellis answered back. “It’s a nice thought though.”A week ago Friday marked the two-year anniversary of their daughter Sidney’s death.