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By WHAV Staff | File photograph. (Image licensed by Ingram Image.) As a public service, 97.9 WHAV presents Community Spotlight at no charge for the benefit of Greater Haverhill nonprofit organizations. To submit news of events, fundraising appeals and other community calendar announcements, Click image. MakeIT Haverhill says spring into a great job when it hosts a job fair Wednesday, March 17. Participants have an opportunity to learn more about exciting opportunities at Penacook Place and Ha...

By WHAV Staff | Mooring being placed into the Merrimack River, off Water Street in downtown Haverhill. (Courtesy photograph.) The public has opportunities to shape policy this week as various Haverhill boards meet. In the interest of transparency in government, WHAV provides this list of upcoming meetings every week. The MS Captain Red, a 105-feet long, 28-feet wide passenger ship, is expected to make its arrival in downtown Haverhill during high tide this Friday. In advance of its arrival, ma...

By WHAV Staff | Congresswoman Lori Trahan during an earlier appearance on 97.9 WHAV. (WHAV News file photograph.) Local demands for federal help eliminating sewage discharges into the Merrimack River are being heard as Congresswoman Lori Trahan introduced bipartisan legislation requiring communities receive help paying for upgrades. Trahan and Illinois Republican Darin LaHood reintroduced the Stop Sewage Overflow Act, designed to ensure the federal government does its part to support the clean...

By Stefanie Dube | March 9, 2021 Birthday cards made by Sacred Hearts School students for Army veteran Louise Fleming who turned 105 years old. (Courtesy photograph.) Louise Fleming then and now. (Courtesy photographs.) Students at Sacred Hearts School in Bradford took part in helping to celebrate a 105-year-old Army veteran’s birthday this past Feb. 28. It all started with a Facebook post by Honor Flight New England, an organization that transports America’s veterans to the memorials in W...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed at least $2.4 billion in COVID-19...

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office filed charges Monday against a Lowell police officer who is accused of shooting at a moving car during a high-speed...

By WHAV Staff | Susan Leger Ferraro of G3 Consulting. (Courtesy photograph.) The Greater Haverhill Chamber hosts a Workforce Development Training Grant Opportunities webinar tomorrow morning with Susan Leger Ferraro of G3 Consulting. Ferraro is discussing the Workforce Training Fund Program that provides grants from $10,000-$250,000 to Massachusetts employers to train current full-time and part-time employees. The state fund is financed by a surcharge on unemployment insurance payments and any...

By WHAV Staff | John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse. (Beyond My Ken, CC.) A 34-year-old, former Lawrence man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for his role in operating a Methuen drug “stash house” where more than 10 kilograms fentanyl and heroin and drug processing equipment were seized in 2018. Carlos Soto-Villar was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris to 188 months in prison and five years of supervised release. He will be subject to deporta...

By WHAV Staff | March 8, 2021 Touring a vaccination site were, from left, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center’s President and CEO John M. Silva and Senior Vice President of External Relations and Chief Marketing and Development Officer Rich Napolitano and Congresswoman Lori Trahan. (Courtesy photograph.) Congresswoman Lori Trahan toured Greater Lawrence Family Health Center’s Lawrence vaccination site Friday, applauding President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan that makes investments ...

By WHAV Staff | March 8, 2021 Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley Feb. 26 at Nock-Molin Middle School in Newburyport. (Nicolaus Czarnecki/Boston Herald/Pool photograph.) Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini. (WHAV News file photograph.) Haverhill’s mayor said he did not have any advance notice of the state’s plans to return to in-person learning when he proposed last month a full school return in April. An 8-3 vote by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Friday afternoon gave st...