North Andover Board of Health Appoints Francis Daigle as New Health Agent

NORTH ANDOVER -- June 25, 2026, North Andover Board of Health unanimously appoints new health agent amid open regulatory items. The board voted June 25 to seat Francis Daigle, formerly health director in Littleton, Massachusetts, as the town's health agent and as its voting representative to the Middlesex-Essex Public Health Collaborative Advisory Board, which received renewed state grant funding for the fiscal year beginning July 2026. The board also flagged two unresolved regulatory gaps: a tobacco regulation update targeting suspension durations in Section 17 that has not yet gone to a formal public hearing, with a timeline of September review and an October hearing; and the absence of any town bylaw requiring closed trash containers, linked by staff to a "big uptick" in rodent and housing complaints this year, including incidents at Royal Crest Estates where one building remains closed following a fire. Staff said the town currently has nothing "on the books regulating trash" and identified Town Meeting, likely spring 2027, as the target for a new bylaw developed collaboratively with the Town Manager's office and the public health department.