By Win Damon |
Haverhill School Superintendent Margaret Marotta. (WHAV News file photograph.)
With the global pandemic entering a second year, it’s not just students having to cope with new school realities. Administrators are likewise finding themselves facing challenges such as the prospect of another unusual graduation day.
Haverhill School Superintendent Margaret Marotta, a guest recently on WHAV’s morning program, says with Haverhill High School’s graduation coming up in less than four months, thought is already going into the graduation ceremony for the class of 2021.
“We’ve been creating a series of different plans of what it’s going to look like. I think we know it’s not going to be our typical graduation. We’re hoping that it can be some kind of a in-person, socially distanced graduation maybe with some limitations on the number of people that can attend, or something. That’s sort of the best-case scenario,” she says.
By WHAV Staff |
File photograph. (Image licensed by Ingram Image.)
Haverhill’s education support professionals and the Haverhill School Committee are scheduled to try again today to resolve differences over proposed pay increases.
The ESPs, represented by the Haverhill Education Association, are calling for more progress toward earning, what they call, a “living wage.” Maureen Zuber, the ESP’s bargaining team chair, said the approximately 180 employees are asking for a 2% wage increase retroactive to the start of this school year and next, plus a $4,000 raise next year.
“Our proposal will accelerate our progress toward a living wage by bringing the starting salary for ESPs to $25,000 starting next school year,” Zuber said in a statement. “Haverhill’s ESPs have been undervalued and underpaid for long enough. It’s time for a market correction not just in Haverhill but across the country to make sure these educators and all school staff are compensated fairly for
Red Fox Tavern cold case: Staff members recall fatal robbery 33 years on
10 Feb, 2021 12:04 AM
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Police recreation of Red Fox Tavern in 1987. Video / Supplied
Staff members have recalled the fatal Red Fox Tavern hold-up, including the sound of an explosion , and hoping against hope the slain publican was okay, more than 30 years after the events transpired.
Mark Joseph Hoggart, 60, and a man with name suppression are on trial for the aggravated robbery and murder of Christopher Bush, on the night of October 24, 1987.
Both of the accused men deny they were the ones that committed the crimes.
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