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By Marc Lemay. You can call her Mayor-Elect Melinda E. Barrett. On Tuesday, the 10-year city councilor defeated Guy E. Cooper for the seat in the corner office of City Hall. Barrett received 7,038 votes to Cooper’s 3,024 votes in unofficial results. In her acceptance speech to supporters, she reflected on the overall movement that […]

Haverhill City Clerk Kaitlin M. Wright is encouraging residents who haven’t already voted to take part in today’s general election—which will bring in a new mayor in January and the city’s first ward councilors and school committee members. Wright says about 2,800 Haverhill residents took part in early voting and vote-by-mail as of Monday. She […]

Haverhill’s two finalists for mayor approach the city’s problems in different ways, but both agree construction of a new Broadway-area fire station is a top spending priority. Councilor Melinda E. Barrett and retired Police Officer Guy E. Cooper both took time to visit WHAV’s downtown studios to detail their positions—including capital priorities, taxes and housing […]

As part of a whirlwind meeting on Tuesday, the Haverhill City Council took the routine steps of approving a warrant for the upcoming general election and reminding residents of advance and convenient opportunities for voting. The consequential election Tuesday, Nov. 7, implements the city’s first mostly ward-based system and decides what new face appears in […]

Haverhill Firefighters Local 1011 have named their slate of candidates the union endorses for mayor and City Council. The union recommends one person for mayor and six others for City Council. Local 1011 President Timothy Carroll told WHAV why these candidates rose to the top. “They stand with our issues. They stand with the issues […]

Alex Veras, who advocated for decades for neighborhood representation, will have to sit out his own run for Haverhill ward councilor because of illness. While his name remains on the ballot for Ward 1, Veras notified Haverhill City Clerk Kaitlin M. Wright last week that he is suspending his campaign. He tells WHAV he recently […]

One of the seats seen as most critical for delivery of minority representation to Haverhill city government will have no candidates this fall. The surprise revelation came Thursday when Esteban Marte withdrew his name from consideration for the Ward 1 School Committee seat. It was the final day for withdrawing nominations for elected office. Marte, […]

Any Haverhill resident in the city’s Ward 1 neighborhood that has ever considered holding public office has unusual odds of winning a seat if they act today. The paid job of School Committee member for Ward 1 has attracted no candidates as of Thursday afternoon. There’s only one day to take out nomination papers from […]

Haverhill’s first election in 20 years without a sitting mayor in the race and first elections by ward is delivering a good deal of interest with six candidates for mayor, a crowded field for at-large City Council candidates and a dual City Council and School Committee candidate. Former Assistant Harbormaster Timothy Slavit, who considered a […]

A 2021 Haverhill mayoral contender and former Haverhill City Council Vice President Colin F. LePage said Thursday he has decided to seek re-election to the City Council as an at-large candidate. LePage now joins a five-way race for one of four at-large City Council seats, joining Council President Timothy J. Jordan; City Council Vice President […]