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97.9 WHAV ♦ April 01, 2024 ♦ Public Media of New England, Inc.
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Haverhill Vietnam War Veterans Day: Mistreated for Years, Veterans Now Have Access to Array of Services
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(Additional photograph and listing of Haverhill’s Fallen 13 below.) Veterans returning home from Vietnam 50 years ago didn’t always find much support, but their sacrifices were honored during a Haverhill ceremony Friday, where officials emphasized today’s vast array of help and services. Observing National Vietnam War Veterans Day under a tent in the rain at Haverhill’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial at …
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Haverhill Firefighters O’Neill and Lee Graduate from Massachusetts Firefighting Academy
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Newly sworn-in Haverhill Firefighters Paxton Lee and Nicholas O’Neill were among the 34 firefighters graduating Friday morning from Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s 50-day Career Recruit Firefighting Training Program in Stow. As WHAV previously reported, both men were sworn in during a ceremony Thursday with Fire Chief Robert M. O’Brien and Mayor Melinda E. Barrett. They are among an expected hiring surge …
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‘You Feel Like, Now You’re Representing a Whole Group:’ Haverhill School Board’s Collins
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Recently elected Haverhill School Committee Member Yonnie Collins, the first Black person to join the group, said she has felt welcomed by her colleagues. Member Gail M. Sullivan brought cookies once, and she talked through the expectations of the role with members Richard J. Rosa and Paul A. Magliocchetti while still campaigning. After being sworn in three months ago, she …
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Sections: Education, Haverhill
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Lawrence General Hospital to Receive $3 Million and Methuen $200K in Federal Help
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Lawrence General Hospital is receiving a nearly $3 million boost to buy new beds, while Methuen benefits from more than $200,000 for a new searchable database for the public. Sens. Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren said last week they succeeded in getting the amounts into the federal budget as part of securing more than $5.4 million for community-based health …
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Give to Haverhill Boys and Girls Club and Amelia Peabody Foundation will Match ‘Back A Kid’ Donations
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Donors have a chance to double their impacts on the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Haverhill between now and June as the 2024 Amelia Peabody Foundation matches donations in support of the “Back a Kid” annual fund. “Back a Kid” supports operations of all after-school and summer programs that serve nearly 1,000 kids every year. The Club provides kids …
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Sections: Community Spotlight, Haverhill
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CNA Stores Designates Pan-Mass Challenge as its April Charity
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CNA Stores of Haverhill and Amesbury has named the Pan-Mass Challenge as its April Charity of the Month, continuing to demonstrate, what the company says, the “spirit of giving and support” by the cannabis community. Pan-Mass Challenge is an organization that CNA Stores owner and CEO “Rob DiFazio, his family, and a close-knit group of local friends have passionately supported …
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Sections: Business Bulletin, Haverhill
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Local Journalism Tells You the Way It Is
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—John Greenleaf Whittier
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Today’s Radio Highlights
- WIN for Breakfast: Local news, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m. Guest: Haverhill High Drama Coach Melissa Allen discusses spring show “Seussical The Musical.”
- Classic Hits: Favorites all day, except as indicated
- Local News: Every half hour from 6-9 a.m., hourly 9 a.m.-3 p.m., every half hour from 3-6 p.m.
- Community Spotlight: News of upcoming cultural and civic events, quarter past every hour
- Mass Moments: Today in Massachusetts history, 6:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.
- Melinda’s Garden Moment: Melinda Myers offers tips, 7:45 and 4:45 p.m.
- Sound Beat: 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
- Insight Daily: 9:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
- Suspense: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
- FSN World News: 11 p.m.
Tuesday’s Radio Highlights
- WIN for Breakfast: Local news, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m. Guest: Haverhill school Superintendent Margaret Marotta.
- Classic Hits: Favorites all day, except as indicated
- Local News: Every half hour from 6-9 a.m., hourly 9 a.m.-3 p.m., every half hour from 3-6 p.m.
- Community Spotlight: News of upcoming cultural and civic events, quarter past every hour
- Mass Moments: Today in Massachusetts history, 6:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.
- Melinda’s Garden Moment: Melinda Myers offers tips, 7:45 and 4:45 p.m.
- Sound Beat: 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
- Insight Daily: 9:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
- Haverhill City Council: Live. 7 p.m.
- X Minus One: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
- FSN World News: 11 p.m.
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