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By WHAV Staff | March 8, 2021 Kyle Lepore and Matthew Ortins of the Haverhill Fire Department and Sarah Capuano and Kevin Smiertelny of the North Andover Fire Department were among 17 firefighters from 12 fire departments training at the Academy’s Stow campus. (Courtesy photograph.) Two firefighters each from Haverhill and North Andover graduated Friday from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s 50-day Career Recruit Firefighting Training Program, while another Haverhill resident gradua...

By John Lee Grant | File photograph. (Image licensed by Ingram Image.) The One Haverhill Fund has been a lifesaver for people suffering from a loss of income due to the coronavirus pandemic. United Way Vice President Sarah Link told the Haverhill City Council on Tuesday the nonprofit program, developed by community leaders, the Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Massachusetts and others has been instrumental over the past year in helping individuals and other charitable orga...

By WHAV Staff | (File Photography.) 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. The Haverhill Girls Softball League is now registering girls from ages 5 to 14 for its spring season. Divisions include Little Ladies U6 for ages 5 and 6, Little Ladies U8 for ages 7 and 8, 10U Division for ages 8-10, 12U Di...

One person was rescued from a burning home in Lowell, Massachusetts, late Saturday evening. Fire crews responded to reports of a fire at a single family home on...

A driver was killed and passenger injured in an early morning crash Saturday on Interstate 495 in Haverhill. Massachusetts State Police from the Newbury barracks were dispatched to the single-automobile crash at 12:25 a.m. on the northbound side of the highway near exit 52, Route 110. Police have not yet released the identity of the […]

Education commissioner gets OK to force schools to reopen March 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts education commissioner has been given the greenlight to compel districts to return to in-person classes, roughly a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced them to shutter schools and switch to online classes. The Friday decision by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education follows Republican Gov. Charlie Bakers announcement earlier this week that teachers and...

One woman received what were described as “life-threatening” injuries and a 23-year-old Haverhill man is under arrest after the apparent “attack” last yesterday afternoon. Twenty-three-year-old Jake Kavanaugh, of 15 Fairview Farm Road, Haverhill was arrested, according to Essex County District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett’s spokeswoman Carrie Kimball. An arrest log provided by Haverhill Police this […]

By WHAV Staff | Fairview Farm Road, Haverhill. (Mike Jarvis photograph for WHAV News.) The 23-year-old man charged in Wednesday’s attack on his neighbors allegedly ran down a mother and pregnant daughter—ages 54 and 26—with his car, got out to stab the older woman in the neck and tried to stab out her eyes. Jake T. Kavanaugh, of 15 Fairview Farm Road, Haverhill, was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing at his arraignment Thursday in Haverhill District Court. First Ju...

Haverhill firefighters respond to Stevens Street blaze during September 2015. (WHAV News photograph.) Even before a seven-alarm blaze in 2015 destroyed a Stevens Street Mill building, Haverhill was in talks to redevelop the sprawling industrial site. Today, the Little River Dam near Lafayette Square remains an impediment to development, but has also been named as a “climate-related hazard.” The city is now seeking the public’s opinion on potential benefits and impacts of removing the dam ...

By WHAV Staff | March 3, 2021 Rebecca Oldham has been appointed the first director of Groveland’s newly established Economic Development, Planning and Conservation Department. (Photograph courtesy of the Town of Groveland.) Rebecca Oldham has been named as director of Groveland’s new Economic Development, Planning and Conservation Department. Oldham has served as town planner since September of 2018. “My mission is to provide a coordinated and comprehensive approach to the town’s land...