Editing North Andover, Massachusetts (section)

==Government and infrastructure==
North Andover employs the [[open town meeting]] form of government, and is led by a five-member [[Select board|Select Board]] and a town manager, Melissa Rodrigues.<ref>{{cite web |author=Town of North Andover, MA |url=http://www.townofnorthandover.com/Pages/NAndoverMA_Manager/index |title=Town of North Andover, MA - Town Manager |publisher=Townofnorthandover.com |date=2004-05-03 |access-date=2013-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210072324/http://www.townofnorthandover.com/Pages/NAndoverMA_Manager/index |archive-date=2013-02-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The town has its own police and fire departments, EMS, public works, and a senior center. North Andover has no hospital, the nearest being Lawrence General Hospital.

On the state level, the town is served by Essex County services and is patrolled by the First Barracks of Troop A of the [[Massachusetts State Police]], based in Andover.  North Andover lies in two districts, the Fourteenth Essex and Eighteenth Essex, in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]], and the [[Massachusetts Senate's 1st Essex district|First Essex]] and First Essex and Middlesex in the [[Massachusetts Senate]].<ref name=Acts2011>{{citation |url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2011/Chapter152 |access-date= April 15, 2020 |work= Session Laws: Acts (2011) |title=An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts |author=Massachusetts General Court }}</ref> North Andover is located within [[Massachusetts's 6th congressional district]], and has been served by Representative [[Seth Moulton]] (D) since 2015. Massachusetts' senior Senator is [[Elizabeth Warren]] (D), and its junior Senator is [[Ed Markey]] (D), both in office since 2013. North Andover has no mayor, but, until his death in 2006, William P McEvoy, the director of recreation, was known as the "unofficial mayor".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://northandover.wickedlocal.com/article/20140801/News/140809801 | title=McEvoy Field renovations begin }}</ref>
[[File:Old Center of North Andover Massachusetts in 2016.jpg|thumb|300px|left|alt=An aerial view of the North Andover Old Center showing the North Parish of North Andover Unitarian Universalist Church.|An aerial view of the North Andover Old Center showing the North Parish of North Andover [[Unitarian Universalist Church]].]]