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Local legislators are spearheading two bills relating to educational staff today before the Joint Committee on Education. A proposal from Sen. Pavel M. Payano aims to preserve a diverse school workforce by protecting certain teachers, including those from underrepresented communities, from layoffs, while school bus operators would receive de-escalation training under a proposal from Rep. […]

An adult man died late Sunday afternoon when his kayak overturned in the Merrimack River in the vicinity of the William H. Moody School in Haverhill. Haverhill firefighters, initially from the High Street station because of its close proximity and equipment, were dispatched around quarter to five. Haverhill Fire Chief Robert M. O’Brien said they […]

The North Andover Historical Society welcomed Deepak Nagarajan and Andy Van Horn as new trustees during its annual meeting June 14. The new trustees bring the board of directors to 11 members. Nagarajan, of North Andover, is a software engineer at Cisco Systems and holds a master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, […]

A night of guided stargazing is set for the end of next week at Haverhill’s Tattersall Farm. Mike McDougal, a local amateur astronomer and member of the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club, will have telescopes set up to look through and share views of nebulae, galaxies, star clusters and planets. Stargazing takes place Friday, July […]

There will be a food collection Saturday at two Haverhill supermarket locations. The food drive takes place Saturday, June 24, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Market Basket stores at 2 Water St., and 400 Lowell Ave., in Haverhill. It is organized by the United Way of Massachusetts Bay in cooperation with the Merrimack Valley Central […]

New figures released Thursday by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health show opioid-related overdose deaths in Haverhill dropped from 33 in 2021 to 21 a year later, while Methuen increased from 12 to 13 and Lawrence rose from 48 to 58 during the same period. Officials highlighted Haverhill for its drop in deaths and Lawrence […]

A Haverhill woman who worked as a housing counselor recently agreed to pay back twice what, the state inspector general says, she fraudulently received in Emergency Rental Assistance Program money. Thirty-two-year-old Jennifer Munoz recently agreed in Suffolk Superior Court to pay $109,100 over three years to resolve allegations that from April 2020 to January 2022, […]

A 40-year-old Easton man, accused of selling cocaine as part of a gang operating in Haverhill, Lawrence and Methuen, is going to prison for three and a half years after being sentenced last week in U.S. District Court. Christopher Riley was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to the prison term as well […]

Haverhill residents got their first opportunity last night to meet and hear from several of the candidates for the upcoming mayoral election. Five of the six declared candidates took part in a nearly two-hour Haverhill Mayoral Candidates Forum sponsored by the Greater Haverhill Clergy Association. Their resumes are significantly diverse and, not surprisingly, their answers […]

UMass Lowell Associate Professor Stephanie D. Block is the UMass Lowell recipient of the 2023 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Block teaches in applied developmental psychology in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research examines child maltreatment and encompasses her training in developmental and applied science and public health. Her […]