Triple Homicide; Teacher Saves Choking First-Grader; Cockroach Infestation: Top 2015 Stories in North Andover

NORTH ANDOVER, MA - 2015 zipped by for most people, beginning with brutal winter weather and ending with unseasonably warm weather in December.

Here’s a look back at some of the top trending stories on North Andover Patch in 2015.

Three elderly men were found dead of apparent blunt force trauma this morning in an elderly housing unit at 10 Foulds Drive, on Jan. 6.

A couple of weeks later, a North Andover teacher Kayla Szettella kept calm as she asked her first-graders to look away as she gave a choking first-grader the Heimlich maneuver.

Another notable story from 2015 was when a veteran North Andover police sergeant saved a 29-year-old woman’s life from a heroin overdose using Narcan and rescue breathing.

North Andover claimed a Nobel medicine prize winner in October.

People are probably still talking about this.

In March, a local woman was charged with hosting, and allegedly charging admission, to an underage drinking party, and a former North Andover teacher and coach was accused of giving drugs to a teen swimmer in September.

Here are some of the other top trending stories in 2015:

• Black Hawk Helicopters May Be Visible in Eastern Massachusetts as Part of a Disaster Training Drill
• How Much Snow Did the Region Get in the Blizzard of 2015?
• Public Health Officials Close College Cafeteria Over Cockroach Infestation
• Ex-Church Camp Counselor Sentenced For Sexual Assaults in Two States

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