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Rosa Presses Haverhill High Principals on Unsupervised Classrooms

Rosa Presses Haverhill High Principals on Unsupervised Classrooms
Correction: A quotation attributed to School Committee member Mikaela D. Lalumiere is now properly attributed to member Jill Story. Haverhill School Committee members asked Haverhill High School administrators last Thursday how they ensure all classes will have an adult present when the usual teacher is absent. Member Richard J. Rosa brought up the issue after he said he received emails …

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Barrett Chooses Former Newburyport Mayor Mead to Lead Haverhill Law Department

Barrett Chooses Former Newburyport Mayor Mead to Lead Haverhill Law Department
Former Newburyport Mayor Lisa L. Mead and her firm, Mead, Talerman & Costa, will lead Haverhill’s law department—marking the first time the job moves from a required city-based lawyer to an outside practice. Mead—a three-term Newburyport mayor who served from 1994 to 1997, before leaving to become state director for U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, and served as mayor again …

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Education

State Plans Periodic Review of Hill View Montessori Charter Public School ELE Programs

State Plans Periodic Review of Hill View Montessori Charter Public School ELE Programs
The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Language Acquisition plans a routine a Tiered Focused Monitoring Review of Hill View Montessori Charter Public School during the week of March 6. Language Acquisition reviews each district’s and charter school’s English Learner Education program every six years to monitor compliance with federal and state laws and regulations. Areas of …

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Regional News

Methuen Promotes Torrisi From Patrolman to Sergeant

Methuen Promotes Torrisi From Patrolman to Sergeant
Methuen Patrolman Jeff Torrisi, a 25-year veteran of the Methuen Police Department, was promoted last week to sergeant. Torrisi had been serving as a detective assigned to the FBI Transnational Organized Crime Task Force. Torrisi began his career with the Methuen Police Department as an auxiliary police officer in 1996. He served as a dispatcher for a year before becoming …

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Community Spotlight

Haverhill High and Trade School Classes of 1961 Plan Fall Reunion; Look for Classmates

Haverhill High and Trade School Classes of 1961 Plan Fall Reunion; Look for Classmates
(Additional photographs below) The Haverhill High School and Haverhill Trade School Classes of 1961 are having their 60th reunion this fall and searching for classmates. Dr. Raymond F. “Toppy” Comeau, class president and reunion committee chair, said the reunion was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but is now set for Wednesday, Sept. 18, noon-4 p.m., at Bradford Country Club, …

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Business Bulletin

Vacant White Street Store Giving Way to New Studio Apartment Building for the Disabled

Vacant White Street Store Giving Way to New Studio Apartment Building for the Disabled
A developer with a reputation for turning around blighted, inner-city properties is now in the midst of replacing a vacant White Street commercial building with homes for those with developmental disabilities. Jonathan Cody of Atlantis Investments is constructing 20 studio units on the site of the former Robert Pigeon Electric & Appliances store at 123 White St., near downtown Haverhill. …

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