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Haverhill voters responded last night with a resounding “no” to the idea of candidates seeking and holding more than one office and defeated two candidates who sought to do so. Coincidentally or not, incumbent School Committee member Toni Sapienza-Donais lost both the Ward 2 School Committee seat and Ward 2 City Council post. Likewise, Fred […]
(Additional photograph below.) Nurses at Holy Family Hospital campuses in Haverhill and Methuen Wednesday picketed outside to, in their words, “draw attention to the struggles they are facing in delivering safe, quality care to their patients.” Haverhill Emergency Room Nurse Jane Emery, co-chair of Massachusetts Nurses Association-affiliated unit, told WHAV nurses have left the hospital […]
Haverhill City Councilor Melinda E. Barrett was far and away the top vote-getter in yesterday’s mayoral contest, topping School Committee member Scott W. Wood Jr. by a nearly four to one margin. Barrett, in unofficial results, garnered 3,877 votes to Wood’s 1,031. Wood’s hold on second place—and therefore a ballot spot in November—remains fragile, however, […]
A Haverhill City Council subcommittee endorsed Tuesday a proposal to ask voters to weigh in on whether local candidates should be allowed to run for multiple offices at the same time. The Administration and Finance Committee recommended the non-binding ballot question suggested by City Council President Timothy J. Jordan, Vice President John A. Michitson and […]
One of Haverhill’s longest-serving elected officials is retiring, a mayoral candidate in litigation against the city is hedging his bets with a School Committee run, another School Committee member takes out papers for City Council and a newcomer is all but a shoo-in for the Ward 1 School Committee seat. Friday’s deadline for taking out […]