Page 2 - F Cc News Today

The Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce is urging residents to use Thursday’s Leap Day to take a “Leap of Kindness” by donating time or resources to a charity, senior or first responder. Leap Year adds a 29th day to February and Leap of Kindness Day was invented by the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, Saratoga […]

Haverhill city councilors tonight will consider approving plans to construct eight, one-bedroom apartments above two storefronts in a building within the Washington Street Historic District. The property, in the Adams Building at 38-42 Washington St. in downtown Haverhill, was for many years the home of the Rosen family’s Modern Paint and Hardware store. The three-story, […]

‘Music as You Ride’ Fails to Save Original WHAV-FM in 1952 Editor’s note: A version of this story originally appeared in a WHAV newsletter May 17, 2010. Additional photograph below. The original FM incarnation of WHAV was a relatively short-lived affair of about only four years. It was conceived under difficult circumstances, lived in painful […]

Dr. John L. Maddox, Haverhill Public Schools’ pediatrician, is scheduled to provide an update on efforts to secure a Drug Free Community Grant during tomorrow’s meeting of the mayor’s Haverhill Overdose Prevention and Education—HOPE—Task Force. Maddox will report on the four core measures—alcohol, marijuana, tobacco and prescription drug misuse—that grant award recipients must collect and […]

The bottom two floors of the Haverhill Public Library reopened yesterday after suffering water damage early last month. Mayor Melinda E. Barrett announced at the start of the Jan. 30 City Council meeting that library staff “opened the door to a big puddle of a building” after back-to-back storms three weeks earlier. Library Director Sarah […]

The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Haverhill is contemplating a move, placing a bid on state-owned property near Interstate 495 at Broadway. The Club, which is nearing its 125th birthday in downtown Haverhill, still faces several hurdles before obtaining the 6.5-acre property at 393 Broadway. It faces a competing $850,000 bid, purportedly from a […]

(Additional photograph below.) Merrimack Valley Credit Union and Methuen High School last Friday teamed up for the fifth year to present the Credit for Life Fair to hundreds of graduating seniors. Credit for Life is a two-hour financial simulation held at Methuen High’s Klimas Field House. Prior to the fair, students selected a profession that […]

Eammon’s Heart Foundation for Recovery and Prevention, working with Haverhill Police and Pridestar Trinity EMS, is launching the PEACE Project, aimed at combating the opioid crisis through Narcan distribution. Narcan is described as a critical tool in reversing opioid overdoses, and its availability and accessibility can mean the difference between life and death. Through the […]

Holy Family Hospital’s landlord said Wednesday that Steward Health Care hospitals have drawn significant interest from other potential operators, the latest hint that facilities might soon be transferred away from the financially floundering for-profit system. A day after Gov. Maura Healey issued a biting call for Steward to hand off its licensed, operational Bay State […]

Registered Democrats in Haverhill are having a virtual caucus to elect delegates and alternates to the 2024 Massachusetts Democratic State Convention. Haverhill will be sending 33 delegates and 28 alternates to the party convention, along with other ex-officio delegates. The caucus takes place Monday, March 4, at 6:30 p.m., and is open to all registered […]