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Plaistow’s Mosquito Control program begins this week. Crews from Dragon Mosquito Control will be checking swamps, marshes, woodland pools, ditches, catch basins, storm drains and other shallow, stagnant water for mosquito larvae. When mosquito larvae are found, treatment may include the use of insecticides. Officials said there is no schedule yet to conduct emergency spraying […]

Plans for Napoli’s Tavern, at the corner of Cedar and Eighth Avenue, are, at best, on hold after the Haverhill License Commission voted last Thursday to reverse its earlier approval of a full liquor license. Neighbors expressed the same complaints raised March 2, but this time, the Commission came to a different conclusion when Chairman […]

The Massachusetts Clean Water Trust this week approved $38 million in new low-interest loans and grants, including an $870,000 grant for Methuen. Money for Methuen is earmarked for lead service line planning program projects. The Trust, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, helps communities build or replace water infrastructure that enhances ground […]

Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School students built a bench chair that won praise and was raffled off at the Massachusetts Career Technical Education Annual Conference earlier this month. The bench chair, built collaboratively by students in the Metal Fabrication, Auto Body and Carpentry programs worked, received an overwhelming majority of votes for Best Project […]

Andover Cares, a group formed through the Andover Rotary, is supporting Lawrence General Hospital’s efforts to assist babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome. The group’s $20,000 February donation helps the Lawrence General team care for opioid-exposed newborns and their mothers, Lawrence General Hospital President and CEO Deborah J. Wilson said. “We are so grateful for […]

A request by Broco Oil to install wayfinding signs at three separate locations was put on hold by the Haverhill City Council Tuesday pending further study by the city’s Engineering Department. Broco Oil, which operates a fuel depot, sought permission to install signs to direct trucks to its Eighth Avenue location, starting along Primrose Street […]

It was a grant of a lifetime…and then it wasn’t. Yesterday, WHAV reported Ruth’s House, a popular Lafayette Square thrift shop with a charitable mission, was to receive a nearly $100,000 state grant to bolster security. The information came Wednesday in a press release from the state Office of Grants and Research. The release clearly […]

Bestselling author and Haverhill native Andre Dubus III reads from his 2018 novel, “Gone So Long,” during an upcoming event at the Haverhill Public Library. “Haverhill Reads: An Afternoon with Andre Dubus III,” takes place Saturday, April 22, 2 p.m., at the Haverhill Public Library auditorium, 99 Main St. Books will be available for purchase […]

Methuen city officials are unable to explain how an outside consultant’s investigation of alleged police department wrongdoing was apparently leaked to a Boston newspaper despite a gag order. WHAV reported back in January criticism leveled by the state Civil Service Commission regarding the hiring of a city councilor as a police officer. The Boston Globe […]

A group of junior marketing students at Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School gave a presentation late last month to their peers on “Credit for Life,” a program that teaches students about real-life budgeting and money management skills Tech students. Gabby Ortiz of Haverhill, Katie Rocco of Newburyport and Owen Brannelly of Amesbury delivered the […]