NORTH ANDOVER -- The School Committee voted unanimously to allow an architect team to explore temporarily closing the Kittredge Elementary School in order to efficiently construct a new school building on a clean site.
The School Committee voted 5-0 at Thursday's meeting to instruct the Kittredge School Building Committee (KSBC) to move forward with architectural planning on what a new building would look like on a site "free" from the current school building.
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