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The State Ethics Commission says former Lawrence Fire Department Fire Prevention Inspector David Blanchette will pay a $65,000 civil penalty for violating the conflict-of-interest law. The Commission said Blanchette used his official position to secure business for his private smoke and carbon monoxide detector maintenance and installation company, conducting inspections on behalf of the Fire […]

The idea of free community college for everyone is coming back to Beacon Hill as the state Senate begins preparing its budget wish list. Senate President Karen E. Spilka said Wednesday. “Keep your eyes peeled,” for free community college funding in the Senate’s version of the budget that begins next July 1. Making community college […]

The former riverfront site of Haverhill Paperboard moved a step closer toward redevelopment at the Haverhill Conservation Commission meeting last week, even as another potential developer seems to have lost interest. Peter Noyes, who bought the 100 S. Kimball St. property at the end of 2016 for $750,000, won approval to build a five-foot-wide earthen […]

Four staffers at Pentucket Bank have been promoted to key posts as of the first of the year. Dawn George becomes vice president, retail branch operations officer; Jacqueline Karlberg, vice president, commercial loan administration officer; Lisa Phillips, Assistant Vice President, Deposit Systems Officer; and Tracy St. Onge, vice president, according to CEO Jonathan H. Dowst […]

The legislature’s Joint Committee on Education plans to hear testimony today on a bill filed by Methuen Rep. Ryan Hamilton to make financial literacy a high school graduation requirement. The hearing takes place today, Jan. 10, at 1 p.m., at the State House, Hearing Room A-2. More than a dozen students have registered to testify […]

Police are investigating a fatal stabbing in Lawrence that took place Tuesday night. Essex County District Attorney Paul F. Tucker and Acting Lawrence Police Chief William Castro said Lawrence Police were dispatched around 5 p.m., to the scene of an altercation at McDonald’s, 50 Broadway. Police said they found an adult man suffering from an […]

The Merrimack River Watershed Council Tuesday was formally awarded $21,500 as part of nearly $1 million in grants for ecological restoration projects throughout the state. The award by the Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Ecological Restoration will support the early stages of locally driven, high priority restoration project implementation, such as culvert replacements […]

Haverhill residents have one opportunity—that’s this Saturday—to have the city take away their discarded Christmas trees from the curbside. The city’s waste hauler plans to collect Christmas trees Saturday, Jan. 13, beginning at 6 a.m. Residents are advised to place trees outside by the night before. There will be no make-up day. Lights and ornament […]

Haverhill City Councilors voted last night to send a letter calling for a comprehensive pedestrian safety plan to the Haverhill Police Department’s Traffic and Safety Committee, following the serious injury of a 9-year-old last Thursday when he was struck by an allegedly drunk driver after exiting a school bus. Councilor John A. Michitson, who proposed […]

Lawrence Police have charged a 47-year-old man with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing Tuesday of a 32-year-old in the city. Marcos A. Muniz is expected to be arraigned today in Lawrence District Court, according to a statement this morning from Essex County District Attorney Paul F. Tucker and Acting Lawrence Police Chief William […]