NORTH ATTLEBORO - North TV has chosen three stories among the thousands covered on our newscasts over the last 20 years.
New NAHS
Our third biggest North Attleboro story took place a little more than a year ago when voters overwhelmingly approved a debt exclusion for a 30-year bond to fund the building of a new North Attleboro High School and demolition of the current building.
Click the first video below to watch how we reported that vote at the top of our June 6th, 2025 edition of “North TV News.”
North TV was on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony earlier this summer and will follow the construction through the first day of school in the new building two years from next month.
Change in government
The North Attleboro story we rank number two over the past 20 years comes from our April 5, 2019 newscast.
Voters, by a margin of almost two to one, chose to do away with the select board and representative town meeting form of government in favor of a town manager and town council.
Click the second video below to watch our top story from the April 5th, 2019 edition of “North Attleborough This Week.”
Although a few changes have been made to the charter approved by voters that day, it remains mostly intact since it was drafted by the charter commission.
Voter approve override
Let’s preface the top story North TV has covered in North Attleboro over the past two decades by taking a look back at the “North Attleborough This Week” newscast of April 10th, 2015.
It was the Friday after the town’s annual election when we reported the story about voters declining on a second attempt to override Proposition 2½.
Click the third video below to watch how we reported that failed override.
Unfortunately, the footage of when North Attleboro voters eventually approved an override on April 3rd, 2018 no longer exists.
We opened the Friday newscast that followed the vote to pass an override with the following:
“The third time’s the charm applies to the efforts to pass a Proposition 2 1/2 override. After failing by a 2-to-1 vote in 2013 and a 54-to-46 margin in 2015, proponents of an override were able to convince 4,323 of their fellow residents to raise their own taxes, while only 3,212 said no – a margin of 57 to 43 percent.”
Since then, rising costs for wages, healthcare and supplies continue to challenge town officials in balancing their operating budgets.
