With the crisis still unresolved at Steward Health Care, owner of Holy Family Hospitals in Haverhill and Methuen, a top community health leader urged the legislature not to let “distractions” stymie the push for major health care reforms. Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers President Michael Curry called on lawmakers to display the “same sense […]
Bethany Community Services is reminding those interested in participating in the Affordable Housing Lottery for a senior apartment at Merrimack Place in Haverhill, that the deadline is tomorrow. Forty-eight affordable, apartments are under construction on Water Street. There are one- and two-bedroom units with on-site laundry, off-street parking, air conditioning units, 24-hour emergency maintenance and […]
After three years in limbo, Haverhill city councilors ratified the firefighters’ contract with the city last night. The city and union reached the new agreement in early February, as WHAV reported. It will bring retroactive cost-of-living raises for each year, a one-time “special wage adjustment” this year and various stipend and shift differential increases. Haverhill […]
State Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell says statewide housing, health care, consumer protection and safety issues affecting Greater Haverhill are among those she’s tackling statewide. In an interview with WHAV Tuesday, Campbell said she received praise from Haverhill state Rep. Andy X. Vargas on her decision to file suit yesterday against the Town of Milton […]
(Additional photographs below.) Haverhill High School students and educators saw a live, virtual tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from Harbor Place yesterday, the first of its kind in the United States. As if the viewer is walking beside her, the projectors in the conference room showed video from the guide’s perspective as she crossed […]