Today is Wednesday, March 6. Here are five things you need to know.
- Cloudy: Temperatures are expected to be in the low 40s most of the day, with cloudy skies most of the day as well.
- Bradstreet: The Bradstreet School proposal has been rejected.
- Parking: The town has announced that the winter parking ban is in effect until further notice.
- Food: Taste of North Andover will be Saturday at the Youth Center.
- This Day in History: In 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri into the Union as a slave state but prohibiting slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory. In 1836, the Mexican siege of the Alamo ended when the Mexican army defeated the Texas volunteers. In 1857, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens. In 1981, Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite."
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