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The Atkinson Women’s Civic Club plans its 2023 Indoor/Outdoor Artisan Market a week from Saturday. There will be raffle baskets and a 75 handmade craft and food vendors indoors and out.  Honey, jams and jellies, chocolate, Greek pastries, spices, dog toys, wooden items, jewelry, photography, pottery, quilted items, book authors and soap and beauty items […]

Dr. Raymond F. Comeau, a Haverhill native and poet, notes “Springtime is for birds and flowers, but it is also for humans and rabbits.” In his “Approaching Rabbit,” Comeau describes a meeting between a human and a rabbit, “to see if there is room for getting along.” Approaching Rabbit I saw yesterday through my window […]

Methuen Democrats meet a week from Saturday to elect 23 delegates and five alternates to represent the city at this fall’s 2023 State Democratic Convention. A caucus, open to all registered Democrats, takes place Saturday, June 10, beginning at 9 a.m., at Methuen City Hall, Searles Building, 41 Pleasant St., third floor, Methuen. The Methuen […]

The 43rd Annual Crescent Yacht Club Charity Canoe Race takes place a week from tomorrow. The race, formerly known as the Lou Marcel Canoe Race, starts Saturday, June 3, at 9:15 a.m. at the Essex County Alternative Correctional Center in Lawrence and finishes at the Crescent Yacht Club in Haverhill. Speaking before the Haverhill City […]

Methuen begins regularly scheduled collection of yard waste on Tuesday. Methuen Mayor Neil Perry and Public Works Director Patrick Bower said they have worked to develop a temporary solution, while still planning to buy a city truck for the job. “Yard waste will be picked up on the regular schedule that coincides with recycling collection […]

Bethany Community Services plans to add a Club Connection Memory Café with $75,000 over three years coming from the Cummings Foundation’s major annual grants program. The Haverhill-based organization was selected from a total of 630 applicants during a competitive review process and becomes one of 150 nonprofits to share in $30 million. Bethany Communities is […]

A 33-year-old Haverhill man, pastor of Family of God church in Haverhill, was identified Thursday afternoon as the victim of a fatal shooting Monday in Boston. Boston Police said Daniel T. Mayers died of “apparent gunshot wounds” and is asking the public to come forward with any information. Boston officers were dispatched Monday, just before […]

(Additional photograph below.) Haverhill honored its “Hometown Heroes” Thursday afternoon, in a ceremony marked by a State Police helicopter flying overhead and an artillery salute, while remembering those killed in action and those who served during all of the nation’s wars. The third annual tribute ceremony, organized by the Exchange Club of Haverhill, kicks off […]

Plaistow, N.H., has its Memorial Day Parade and ceremonies Monday. The parade is Monday, May 29, beginning at 9 a.m., in front of Pollard School, 120 Main St., Plaistow, and proceeds to Plaistow Cemetery on Elm Street, where there will be short service. Participants march back to Town Hall Green, 145 Main St., for a […]

Team Haverhill’s Neighborhood Clean & Green team is looking for volunteers to help clean a stretch of South Main Street on the Bradford side of the Merrimack River. The group gathers Tuesday, May 30, from 6-7:30 p.m., at the start of the Rail Trail behind Dunkin’ Donuts to pick up litter from the Basiliere Bridge […]