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Rep. Andy X. Vargas, former Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera, former Northern Essex Community College trustee and Labor Secretary Rosalin Acosta and other local notables will be the first to serve on the Governor’s Council on Latino Empowerment when it launches today. Gov. Maura Healey is scheduled to sign an executive order today, establishing the Council […]

After months of winter, it is finally spring cleanup time once again and Haverhill is asking residents to lend a hand spiffing up city streets on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22. David LaBrode, coordinator of Haverhill’s annual Earth Day City Wide Cleanup, told the City Council last night this year’s event, which has been themed […]

Groveland is part of a coalition that recently hired a jail diversion clinician to better help police respond to behavioral health calls. Robin Reid, working in collaboration with Beth Israel Lahey Health Behavioral Services, was welcomed by the police chiefs of Groveland, Rowley, Boxford, Georgetown and Newbury. The position, paid by a grant from the […]

A presentation on King Philip’s War and the Nine Years’ War—both conflicts with France that involved the New England colonies—is coming to the Groveland Historical Society next week. Tom Spitalere, a local historian and past chairman of the Haverhill Historical Commission, speaks on the “French American War” Wednesday, April 12, 7 p.m., at Washington Hall, […]

Heather True of Haverhill, lead aide at Haverhill Crossings, last month received the Benchmark 2023 Compassionate Caregiver Award, the companies highest honor. True was honored at Benchmark’s 20th Annual Awards Gala, selected out of more than 5,000 associates for best fulfilling the company’s mission of meeting individuals where they are and connecting them to the […]

An outside committee is recommending raising the salary of Haverhill’s next mayor, while freezing compensation for city councilors and School Committee members and eliminating existing health insurance coverage for those bodies. Haverhill city councilors tonight formally receive the recommendations—stemming from a survey of comparable cities. No vote is planned, but an agenda item suggests councilors […]

A Haverhill man is the latest addition to the Merrimac Fire Department. Nicholas O’Niell began working last Saturday as a full-time firefighter. For the past year, he worked as an on-call firefighter and EMT. Fire Chief Larry Fisher thanked O’Niell for his “hard work and dedication to the citizens of Merrimac during his time on-call.” […]

State Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne Hao is the lunch speaker during the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Spring Business Expo, Trade Show, Health and Wellness Fair tomorrow. Hao, who was named to the post in January by Gov. Maura Healey, addresses the state of the Commonwealth’s economy with a panel of Merrimack Valley leaders. […]

The YMCA is again having its unusual underwater Easter egg hunt this Saturday. Haverhill’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt in the Pool gives children a chance to gather eggs in the large and redeem them for prizes. YMCA Regional Executive Director Tracy Fuller appeared yesterday on WHAV’s “Win for Breakfast” program, saying the hunt is a […]

Congresswoman Lori Trahan and Congressman Seth Moulton and their New Hampshire counterparts, U.S. Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas recently joined together in requesting, for the fifth year in a row, more federal money to combat combined sewer overflows polluting the Merrimack River. This year’s letter requesting $280 million was sent to House appropriators leading […]