Haverhill High School seniors have a chance of ending their final semester is a relatively normal manner as they return to in-person learning Tuesday. School Superintendent Margaret Marotta said Monday night that WiFi is expected to be restored at all school buildings Tuesday following a devastating ransomware attack that took out internet, telephone and other services last week. “While we will be up and running, we will not be at full network capacity for some time. Email is not yet up consistently,” Marotta wrote.
As Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School transitions back to full in-person learning by the end of the month, the institution is reflecting on the events of the past year. The kind of hands-on learning vocational education requires meant staff had to adapt on the fly to new technologies and adjust the curriculum for learning in-person and remotely. Michael Sandlin, a senior carpentry instructor in his fifth year of teaching at Whittier, explained.
The family of former Pentucket Bank President and CEO Edmund J. Cote Jr. and Pentucket Bank recently established a scholarship for graduating Haverhill High School seniors beginning this year. Cote’s family raised $20,000 which was matched by Pentucket Bank for a total of $40,000. Two $1,000 scholarships will be given annually to Haverhill High School graduates.
One of two men who robbed an Andover Bank and four others in 2018 was sentenced Friday to a little more than nine years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns sentenced 50-year-old Dong Lee of Rhode Island to 110 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Lee pleaded guilty last October.
