Kick FM was bought by Tindle Radio in 2006, and sold again in August 2009 to Andover Sound.

On 12 March 2012, Celador announced Newbury Sound and Andover Sound would be rebranded as The Breeze, falling in line with an existing network of stations serving South Hampshire and the West of England ( Bristol, Somerset and West Wiltshire ).

Downtown is now home to a new headquarters for Oxford Networks, along with a $ 20 million upgrade in local fiber-optics, a new auto parts store, a campus for Andover College, the headquarters for Northeast Bank, a parking garage, and the newly renovated Maine Supply Co. building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The future site of the city ( formerly parts of Andover and Methuen ), was purchased by a consortium of local industrialists.

Andover was the site of a large train wreck which common local myth incorrectly cites as the source of the name of the city.

The popular yarn is that a typographical error in a local newspaper stated that the train rolled over Andover, thus the name.

The Borough Council and Andover Rural District Council were abolished in the local government reorganisation of 1974, and replaced by Test Valley Borough Council, which included the land down to the edge of Southampton in the south, quite a rural area apart from Andover.

The town is also a local commercial centre for Victoria County, catering to the surrounding communities of Plaster Rock, Perth Andover, Blue Bell, and New Denmark.

The local newspaper is the Andover Advertiser-based in Hampshire.

In 2007 the site of Andover Airfield became the focus of a some local controversy when developers submitted a planning proposal to build a large distribution centre for the supermarket giant Tesco on the site of the airfield.

For her early education, Claman went to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where she was a disc jockey for the school radio station, WPAA, and to Beverly Hills High School.

WXRV ( The River 92. 5 FM ) is an Adult album alternative radio station based in Andover, Massachusetts, with a signal covering most of northeast Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, and audible as far away as Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The following day, on 14 August 1940, RAF Andover was attacked again, about 15 high explosive bombs being dropped which destroyed a transmitting set in the centre of a group of radio masts, and killing a civilian radio operator.

** Andover ( MBTA station )

* RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station

Syncom 2 also relayed a number of test television transmissions from Ft. Dix, N. J. to a ground station in Andover, Maine beginning on Sept. 29, 1963 ; the first successful TV transmission through a geosynchronous satellite.

As part of restoring the Lackawanna Cut-Off, funding has been given to rebuild a stretch of railroad to a new station in Andover.

Andover Station is also neat the historic Third Railroad Station, a former Boston and Maine Railroad station that's listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

He is currently serving a life sentence for the 1967 shooting death of an Andover, Massachusetts gas station attendant.

Andover was linked to Basingstoke and thus to London by railway when the Andover junction station was opened on 3 July 1854 ; this railway also linking the town to Salisbury.

But before the more powerful transmitter could be used, a highly directional antenna pattern had to be devised to protect the meager 10 watt station ( WPAA 91. 7 MHz ) at Andover Academy.

Both Newbury & Andover stations now share the same presenters and programming with separate links, news bulletins, station identification and adverts for both areas.

This line was the trickiest to construct and had four tunnels and a single station called ( rather optimistically given Andover lay 13 miles west ) Andover Road ( now Micheldever ).

Grafton and Burbage railway station was opened by the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway in 1882 and closed by British Railways in 1961.

Ludgershall railway station closed in 1961 along with the northern section of the Midland and South Western Junction Railway to Swindon, the southern section to Andover remains open to allow the British Army to transport tanks and other equipment to and from the depot and onwards to Salisbury Plain.

* The National Rail code for Andover railway station, United Kingdom.

RAF Andover is a former Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station located within Hampshire.

The Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) opened a station near Andover in August 1917 during the First World War.

It was thought at the time that these air raids were attempts to attack the important 11 Group Fighter Command Sector Station nearby at RAF Middle Wallop, but German records make it clear that RAF Andover was the intended target, as the Luftwaffe thought wrongly that it was an operational bomber station.

Andover continued its association with pioneering the use of helicopters in Britain when the Joint Helicopter Unit, which was a joint Royal Navy, Army Air Corps and Royal Air Force unit exploring operational helicopter roles, was based at the station from 1958 to 1959.

* RAF Andover history, with units ( including a US fighter squadron ) based at the station

The station is licensed to Andover, Kansas, is owned by Entercom and broadcasts at 93. 9 MHz with an ERP of 25 kW.

As poor-law commissioner he presented a valuable report to the Home Secretary regarding the Andover workhouse scandal, and in 1849 he became a metropolitan police magistrate.

Furthermore, the report also named Polytechnic as the top small school in the world for having the largest part of its students achieve a 3 or above on the AP Calculus AB examination in both 2004 and 2005 .< ref > In 2007, Polytechnic School was ranked 4th in the world by The Wall Street Journal in success rate in sending students to Harvard University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Williams College, Pomona College, Swarthmore College, the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University, higher than many older, better known east coast prep schools such as Exeter and Andover.

Dennett lives with his wife in North Andover, Massachusetts, and has a daughter, a son, and three grandchildren.

The Royal Flight bought a few and a variant with a rear-loading ramp and a " kneeling " main undercarriage was sold to the RAF and several members of the Commonwealth as the Andover.

* Andover. net, a previous name of the Open Source Developers Network, later Open Source Technology Group, which merged with SourceForge, Inc.

There are bus links to Southampton, Bournemouth and Andover working seven days a week with limited services on Sundays.

Stagecoach in Hampshire runs the number 87 to Andover every two hours from Salisbury and also every other journey on route 8 to Andover via Amesbury and Tidworth along with Wilts & Dorset.

The name of the town was changed from Cloud City to Andover on June 7, 1880, when Mr. Cloud had a ' falling out ' with residents of the area.

Widening to nearly one-half mile, with winds over, the deadliest blow was to Andover.

Middleton lies along the border of Essex County, and is bound by North Reading in Middlesex County to the west, and North Andover to the northwest, Boxford to the northeast, Topsfield to the east, Danvers to the southeast, Peabody to the south, and shares a short, 0. 3 mile border with Lynnfield to the southwest.

The nearest private college is Merrimack College in North Andover, with several others within an hour drive in Boston.

In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama tied, with each receiving 49 % of the vote This gives Andover a Cook PVI of R + 4.

Public school students in grades K through 8 attend the Andover Regional School District, together with students from Andover Township.

Andover Township is governed under the Township form of government with a five-member Township Committee.

Public school students in grades K through 8 attend the Andover Regional School District, together with students from Andover Township.

David Lindsey, writing in 1955, observes that " New England Yankees, moving into Ohio's Western Reserve in 1798, brought with them the name Andover from a township in Tolland County, Connecticut, birthplace of many of the migrants.

A post office with the name Sharon was established August 2, 1815 ; the name was changed to Andover with effect from March 21, 1826.

John R. Overly Recreation Park is located on Chestnut Street in Andover with a playground, hiking / biking paths, and a picnic area with a pavilion.

In the year 991 Æthelweard was associated with archbishop Sigeric in the conclusion of a peace with the victorious Danes from Maldon, and in 994 he was sent with Bishop Ælfheah of Winchester to make peace with Olaf Tryggvason at Andover.