Makeit Haverhill News Today

This week’s observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day brought back memories for some and reinstilled long held values motivated by the slain civil rights leader. Among them, Keith Boucher, founder of MakeIt Haverhill, who first became aware the concept of equity when he was a child. “When I was young, back in the […]

Haverhill Promise and MakeIt Haverhill are among five nonprofits awarded grants by the Essex County Community Foundation to advance digital equity and bridge, what’s been called, “the digital divide.” Haverhill Promise will build an online program to prepare students for kindergarten in Haverhill, where only 11% of children attend Pre-K, while MakeIt Haverhill will work […]

HAVERHILL — The city’s 2023 Veterans Day Parade will be held on Saturday, Nov. 11. The parade will assemble at Mill Brook Park on Mill Street at 9 a.m. and

HAVERHILL — With live music, a classic car show, a Kids Zone, local foods, demonstrations and a spectacular fireworks display over the Merrimack River, it’s no surprise that Team Haverhill’s

Merrimack Valley cities and towns will receive nearly $2.5 million in earmarks from the Massachusetts state budget during the upcoming fiscal year, with historic levels of support in key areas

Haverhill groups and projects stand to benefit from $755,000 included in the recently passed late state budget, including grants for those creating accessory housing units. Haverhill’s legislative delegation of two representatives and two senators worked together to include various projects, sponsored by each, in the new state budget for the year that started last month. […]

By WHAV Staff | Haverhill City Hall. (WHAV News file photograph.) Haverhill City Councilors take up the city’s proposed $217 million spending plan tonight with little time to spare with the new budget year beginning Thursday. On the Council agenda is what appears to be an attempt at breaking the deadlock between a majority of the City Council and Mayor James J. Fiorentini. Councilors will consider an order placing $500,000 in cannabis “impact fees,” if collected, into an account for yout...

By Win Damon | January 8, 2021 Haverhill Promise campaign director Jenny Arndt during a 2019 appearance with WHAVs Win Damon. (WHAV News photograph.) The grade level reading program known as Haverhill Promise is promoting good school attendance habits as a means to bolster all forms of learning. Haverhill Promise Campaign Director Jenny Arndt, who recently appeared on WHAV’s morning show, said attending every day of school is critical. “Good attendance habits, and this is something we are ...

(File photograph.) 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. Haverhill students in grades from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade are eligible to win a $100 gift card by creating a poster over winter recess. Haverhill Promise, the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, is offering the contest to highlight the...