The company proposing a second recreational marijuana store on Amesbury Road is temporarily pulling its special permit request. Haverwell Market, which came under scrutiny over its ownership, would have been Haverhill fifth permitted adult marijuana store if approved Tuesday. In an email to city councilors today, Council President John A. Michitson said simply, “NEWS FLASH: Haverwell to Withdraw Special Permit Proposal (seeking without prejudice).” The Council is not obligated to honor the “without prejudice” request. If not, Haverwell Market would have to wait to bring back another proposal, or show there is a significant change in its proposal.
Two Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District trucks will be in the northeastern part of the city Monday night, Sept. 23 from 6:45-10 p.m. to spray after a pool of mosquitoes tested positive for the West Nile virus, Mayor James J. Fiorentini said Friday. Insecticide will be sprayed in the vicinity of Route 495’s Exit 51, heading to North Avenue to Concord Street to Kenoza Avenue to Amesbury Road to the Merrimac town line.
Haverhill students are among those poised to benefit from a new $1.5 billion consensus school finance reform bill that House and Senate leaders rolled out Thursday that’s expected to hit the Senate floor in two weeks. Rep. Alice Pesich and Sen. Jason Lewis, the co-chairs of the Education Committee that has been working for months to develop the legislation, said a focus of the bill is providing resources to low-income students. “I think it’s fair to say that if this bill passes into law, we will have the strongest and most progressive education funding system in terms of how we reflect the needs of low-income students,” Lewis, a Winchester Democrat, said, according to the State House News Service.
Six abandoned, city-owned fixer-upper homes and vacant land parcels were auctioned off during a live public auction Wednesday at City Hall, netting Haverhill $780,000, Mayor James J. Fiorentini’s office tells WHAV. Conducted by Shrewsbury’s Zekos Group Auctioneers, the properties auctioned were previously acquired through the tax-title process in the city’s effort to rehabilitate and improve neighborhoods. Ninety-four people entered bids at the event, which Fiorentini declared “very successful.”
“When the owner does not pay the taxes and abandons the home, very often the property falls into a state of severe disrepair and becomes both a public safety hazard and a source of blight and crime.
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Two Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control District trucks will be in the northeastern part of the city Monday night, Sept. 23 from 6:45-10 p.m. to spray after a pool of mosquitoes tested positive for the West Nile virus, Mayor James J. Fiorentini said Friday.
The company proposing a second recreational marijuana store on Amesbury Road is temporarily pulling its special permit request. Haverwell Market, which came under scrutiny over its ownership, would have been Haverhill fifth permitted adult marijuana store if approved Tuesday.
Haverhill students are among those poised to benefit from a new $1.5 billion consensus school finance reform bill that House and Senate leaders rolled out Thursday that’s expected to hit the Senate floor in two weeks. Rep. Alice Pesich and Sen. Jason Lewis, the co-chairs of the Education Committee that has been working for months to develop the legislation, said a focus of the bill is providing resources to low-income students.
Six abandoned, city-owned fixer-upper homes and vacant land parcels were auctioned off during a live public auction Wednesday at City Hall, netting Haverhill $780,000, Mayor James J. Fiorentini’s office tells WHAV. Conducted by Shrewsbury’s Zekos Group Auctioneers, the properties auctioned were previously acquired through the tax-title process in the city’s effort to rehabilitate and improve neighborhoods.
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Methuen state Rep. Linda Dean Campbell is among the local legislators who spoke out in support of school bus safety at a Tuesday meeting of the Joint Committee on Transportation. Several bills are once again before the committee to permit installation of bus stop cameras, including one filed by Rep. Paul Donato, the State House News Service reports.
Methuen voters headed to the polls Tuesday, deciding that current City Councilor Jennifer Kanan and educator Neil Perry will be the two candidates to face off in November’s municipal election to succeed Mayor James P. Jajuga. Residents cast 4,923 total ballots in the Sept.
Drivers traveling in and around Groveland this fall should be advised the Massachusetts Department of Transportation intends to close a single lane of Route 113 (Main Street) starting this week to carry out construction work. From 7 a.m.-4 p.m. daily through the fall, the lane closure runs from the West Newbury town line to Elm Park, MassDOT said, with a single traffic lane maintained during roadwork.
A person police say was suspected of drugged driving was given two doses of Narcan Monday night after allegedly sideswiping a car and slamming into a utility pole on Methuen’s busy route 110 just before 7 p.m., Police Chief Joseph E. Solomon tells WHAV. The accident, which took place near the Sons of Italy function hall, knocked live wires onto Merrimack Street, which is also known as Route 113.
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An 18-year-old self-described gang member brazenly bragged about having his gun out in broad daylight Sept. 15, going so far as to tell a Haverhill Police officer involved in arresting him for Sunday’s Jackson Street shooting he wished he turned the gun on that officer instead.
A Haverhill man is facing several charges in two cities after police in Groveland say he allegedly stole a Jeep Cherokee and caused an accident at Nicole’s Mini Food Store last week. Carson Hamilton spent the weekend behind bars on drug possession and motor vehicle-related charges stemming from a Thursday Haverhill Police arrest, and now Groveland Police tell WHAV more charges are on the way after they tied him to last week’s convenience store accident.
A daytime shooting in Haverhill’s Mount Washington neighborhood resulted in the Sunday arrests of a city man and two out-of-town residents, police tell WHAV. At 12:01 p.m. Sept.
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Haverhill students are among those poised to benefit from a new $1.5 billion consensus school finance reform bill that House and Senate leaders rolled out Thursday that’s expected to hit the Senate floor in two weeks. Rep. Alice Pesich and Sen. Jason Lewis, the co-chairs of the Education Committee that has been working for months to develop the legislation, said a focus of the bill is providing resources to low-income students.
Exeter, N.H. chef and restaurant manager Denis Boucher is getting fired up about Northern Essex Community College’s new Haverhill Heights complex. Tapped by the school to lead the culinary and hospitality programs on Merrimack Street, Boucher isn’t just keeping an eye on the kitchen: He’s also overseeing construction as Northern Essex’s two floors take shape.
Methuen state Rep. Linda Dean Campbell is among the local legislators who spoke out in support of school bus safety at a Tuesday meeting of the Joint Committee on Transportation. Several bills are once again before the committee to permit installation of bus stop cameras, including one filed by Rep. Paul Donato, the State House News Service reports.
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Haverhill students are among those poised to benefit from a new $1.5 billion consensus school finance reform bill that House and Senate leaders rolled out Thursday that’s expected to hit the Senate floor in two weeks. Rep. Alice Pesich and Sen. Jason Lewis, the co-chairs of the Education Committee that has been working for months to develop the legislation, said a focus of the bill is providing resources to low-income students.
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There was a time when mom and dad Piper on the “Couple Next Door” had first names, when “Gunsmoke’s” Marshal Matt Dillon and “Johnny Dollar” had different names, when famous filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directed “Suspense” and when the “Great Gildersleeve” sold girdles instead of city water. These and many other surprises are revealed when 97.9 WHAV FM presents “How They Began” for seven nights beginning Sunday, Sept.
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George T. Boner, 87, a 50-year resident of South Groveland, died Friday, Sept. 13 at the Ernest P. Barka Assisted Living Residence in Brentwood, N.H. A Marine veteran who served in the Korean War, Boner was a salesman at Lynn’s George J. Kelly Shoe Polish Company and retired as a security manager for The Ferncroft Towers in Danvers.
Fremont, NH: Patricia Holder (Rossetti) Gerety, 77, of Fremont, and former longtime resident of Canterbury Forest, Plaistow died peacefully on Friday, September 13, 2019 at her home, surrounded by her loving family. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, daughter of the late Frank and Verne (Holder) Rossetti, she attended local schools and was a member of the Lynn English High School Class of 1960.
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Stephen Stanley (“Steve”) Wersoski, Jr., 70, of Haverhill, Massachusetts died September 10, 2019 from complications of gall bladder surgery. Son of the late Stephen Wersoski, a professional boxer and Massachusetts state trooper, Steve got his baby blue eyes from his late mother Vera (Fuller) Wersoski.
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Jessie R. (Booth) Shaw, 99, passed away peacefully with loving family at her side on September 9, 2019 at Wingate Residences at Haverhill, MA. She was born on December 31, 1919 to John R. and Elsie (Haseltine) Booth.
