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Haverhill city councilors approved a plan Tuesday to pay tribute to former Councilor William J. Macek by naming a nearly three-acre park in his honor. Mayor James J. Fiorentini made the petition, asking the area at 90 Concord St., along Pentucket Lake, be named in his honor. Longtime friend and former Councilor Mary Ellen Daly […]
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By John Lee Grant | Haverhill City Council President Melinda E. Barrett. (WHAV News photograph by Jay Saulnier.) The City of Haverhill has a new budget for the year that begins tomorrow after a city councilor stayed with a compromise she helped negotiate and reversed her vote in favor of Mayor James J. Fiorentini’s $217 million spending plan. City Council President Melinda E. Barrett last week voted with the majority against the proposed budget because of a disagreement over the creation of a special fund for mental health and youth recreation. Councilors then, by a vote of 5-4, favored cr...