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River Street Café, offering breakfast sandwiches, pizzas, salads, paninis and subs, opened last week on River Street in Haverhill Business owners Kelly DiFazio and Brenna Whitley and their staff offer dine-in, take-out and delivery options for breakfast, lunch or dinner seven days-a-week. DiFazio tells WHAV the restaurant opened with little fanfare. “We’ve been really busy. […]
By WHAV Staff | Architect’s rendering of proposed tri-plex condominium building off Boston Road in Haverhill. The public has opportunities to shape policy this week as various Haverhill boards meet. In the interest of transparency in government, WHAV provides this list of upcoming meetings every week. The Haverhill City Council hears a proposal tonight to permit 18 two-bedroom condominium homes and relocate an existing single-family home off Boston Road. Boston Haverhill’s plan for six tri-plex buildings was originally planned to be heard last month, but was postponed. If approved, a sub...
By WHAV Staff | (WHAV News file photograph.) A methodical and patient police surveillance effort netted a Haverhill man and woman and a Lowell man on drug and other charges. Haverhill Police arrested 43-year-old Juan M. Rodriguez of Lowell; 33-year-old Matthew Robbins, 215 Hilldale Ave., Haverhill; and 23-year-old Emma Kerivan, 225 Hilldale Ave., Haverhill, after an investigation three days in the making. Each pleaded not guilty to fentanyl-related drug charges last week before First Justice Cesar A. Archilla at Haverhill District Court. It began Last Monday, April 5, when Haverhill Detectiv...
Lowell-based UTEC, which operates an anti-violence program in Haverhill, discusses its nationally recognized model during an online presentation tomorrow presented by the Haverhill Public Library. During “Courageous Conversations: What Positive Justice Looks Like,” UTEC explains its approach. The model begins with intensive street outreach, correctional facility in-reach and gang peacemaking, “engaging our most disconnected young […]
By WHAV Staff | April 13, 2021 Haverhill state Rep. Andy X. Vargas testified before the Housing Committee on a bill he co-filed on housing reform May 14, 2019. (Courtesy file photograph.) Haverhill state Rep. Andy X. Vargas and Lynn Sen. Brendan Crighton were honored last week for leadership on affordable housing, housing production and roles in passing, what were described as, “the most significant zoning reforms in a generation.” Vargas and Crighton were awarded the 2021 Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association’s Housing Hero Award. “As the chief sponsor of housing production l...