The planned sale of Haverhill’s Penacook Place Nursing Home is off. Covenant Health said Sunday it has reconsidered the proposed sale to Azure Healthcare, as WHAV reported last month
“Across all our ministries, Covenant Health’s highest priority is quality care. Earlier this year, we explored an opportunity to transfer Penacook Place to another operator. After additional due diligence, we have elected not to proceed with that change of ownership,” read the statement released to WHAV by Covenant Health Senior Vice President of Marketing and Chief Communications Officer Karen R. Sullivan.
Haverhill Mayor Melinda E. Barrett Saturday outlined her vision for a new downtown park that could rise from the ashes of a burned out mill complex and also address a longtime complaint. The mayor’s comments came near the end of an information session that saw more than two dozen residents preview improvements along Little River following the removal of the dam at Winter Street. “I would love, personally, to move Lafayette over there, give him a nice little Lafayette Park, and then maybe the rest it, sell it to some of the industrial folks that are in business further down the street,” she said.
More than two dozen residents turned out in the rain Saturday to learn more about Haverhill’s Little River dam removal project, with at least one previous skeptic coming away with confidence in the project. Following a presentation by Haverhill Environmental Health Technician Robert E. Moore Jr., consultants and contractors, Wilbur “Bill” Mahoney said his outlook has changed. “I was totally against this.
First responders rushed to the Bradford commuter rail station Sunday morning as part of a drill to evaluate readiness and provide practice under emergency conditions. During the mutual aid response test, Haverhill Fire, Police, Transit Police, North Andover Fire, Pridestar Trinity EMS successfully evacuated both a wheelchair-bound passenger and an operator from a smoke-filled train. Michael McCabe, chief of enterprise security and resilience for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, provided an overview of the mock calamity scenario playing out at Bradford Station.
