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.
Finding off-street parking in Haverhill, particularly during a snowy winter, can be a daunting task.
In an attempt to alleviate that problem, Haverhill City Councilor Joseph J. Bevilacqua presented two ideas at Tuesday night’s council meeting. The first was to allow parking in neighborhood school parking lots.
“During the times of snow emergencies, I would like to suggest that we encourage the neighbors and the residents to utilize the city school parking lot, which is not used during the evening hours and weekends especially,” he said.
The second part of his plan calls for contacting the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority and asking for help to allow residents to park overnight in the MBTA lot on Washington Avenue when needed.
By WHAV Staff |
Human Services Director Vincent Ouellette. (WHAV News file photograph.)
Residents who have been perplexed by the state’s confusing COVID-19 vaccine rollout are getting help from Haverhill City Hall.
Mayor James J. Fiorentini said the city has launched its own bilingual COVID-19 vaccine call center, staffed by the city’s Human Services Department in the Citizens Center on Welcome Street.
“We have been flooded with calls from anxious residents struggling to find appointments and navigate a difficult website,” Fiorentini said, explaining “Residents without access to a computer feel shut out of the process.”
Those residents who are 75 years old or older are currently being accepted under state guidelines. The public may call 978-374-2390 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday to reach the center. Spanish-speaking representatives are available. If the call center cannot find an appointment, callers will be placed on a waiting list and notified as soon
By Win Damon |
File photograph. (Image licensed by Ingram Image.)
Despite changing state rules throughout the pandemic, Haverhill’s Community Action has been able to continue serving homeless and near-homeless residents with its Drop-In Center inside Haverhill’s Universalist Unitarian Church.
Longtime Drop-in Center Director Pat Dennehy says the early days of the pandemic created great difficulties because of the then-state limitation of serving just 10 individuals at a time.
“Usually we served about 75 people a day and we had to cut down to 10 which was difficult. The decision was basically made that I would only take in people who were actually outside, because if you’re out all night, you have to have a safe place to go. I’ve been open throughout the pandemic. They bumped us up to 25, brought us back down to 10. We had to change everything the way that we served food. Just everything had to change, but we stuck through it, and we’ve been open every day throughout
Haverhill Police are investigating an early morning crash where, for the second time in a week, a car crashed into a front window of a Main Street restaurant. The driver was reportedly taken by Trinity EMS to Holy Family Hospital for minor injuries after the accident around 2 a.m., at Li’s Fine Asian Cuisine and […]