The Haverhill Conservation Commission is expected to give the final go-ahead Thursday to a proposed 6,000-panel solar farm off Amesbury Line Road. Members held off giving approval to Solar Smart of Summerville, S.C., at its last meeting when a last-minute change came forward. East Haverhill resident and retired firefighter Tyler C. Kimball suggested a compromise involving land owned by Albert Duchemin. Conservation Commission Vice Chair and Community Liaison Ralph T. Basiliere told WHAV the nature of the change.
The Haverhill City Council gave approval last night to a plan that decreases the capacity of a North Avenue nursing home while increasing its ability to serve as an assisted living memory care unit. Wingate Healthcare of Haverhill, 190 North Ave., asked the Council for a special permit to convert the existing property from a 127-bed nursing home to a facility focused strictly on memory care. The building will include 41 assisted-living memory care apartments and 26 beds dedicated to skilled memory care.
Haverhill police officers have been wearing pink-trimmed badges and placing magnetic ribbons on cruisers as part of its month-long Pink Ribbon campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness. Efforts have been geared to raising money, and Detective Joseph Benedetti, whose wife Michelle Benedetti passed away in 2019, says there is still time to help. Placing cruisers into service for the cause was an idea raised several year ago by now Chief Robert P. Pistone.
As Halloween nears and the vale thins, the Essex County Ghost Project plans a spooktacular Halloween weekend. Following Trick or Treat, Saturday, Oct. 30, there will be a paranormal tour at Hilldale Cemetery, 331 Hilldale Ave., Haverhill.
