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Jeremy Brecher's account of the growth of the Knights of Labor union in the US, the agitation for a maximum 8-hour working day and the Chicago Haymarket events of 1886.

Haverhill’s new Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Mill Brook Park receives its long-delayed formal dedication in September on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The new park didn’t receive a proper opening last fall as the city’s then COVID-19 ranking moved up to the moderate-risk “yellow” scale. Ralph T. Basiliere, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans […]

May 29—HAVERHILL — It's a fitting effort anytime, but especially this Memorial Day weekend. If you fly the American flag and after a time find that it becomes tattered from the weather, the Exchange Club of Haverhill wants to help you dispose of it in a dignified way. The service club, in partnership with Driscoll Funeral Home on South Main Street in Bradford, has set up a U.S. flag retirement ...

By WHAV Staff | 6 hours ago Patrick Driscoll of Driscoll Funeral Home opens the U.S. Flag Retirement Drop Box for a visitor. (Mike Jarvis photograph for WHAV News.) The Haverhill Exchange Club wants residents to know there is a proper method of retiring the American flag and the service club wants to help. Exchange Club President Thea Tsagaris said the club’s “greatest priorities are to celebrate our country by honoring and respecting the American flag, promoting pride in our country and appreciation of Americas’ Freedoms.” In keeping with those priorities, she said, the club recentl...

BRIDGEWATER — A project near the center of town that proposed four multi-story buildings with businesses on the first floor and apartments on the top was 11 years in the making and needed town approval to move forward.  The planning board issued a special permit for the 60-88 Broad St. project in April, but the developer said this week that he will not move forward because it was approved for five residential units fewer than he was willing to build.  "It really put us in a position where we can't," said Jim Paskell, president of West Point Realty of Hanover. "It just doesn't work."