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City Desk

Proposed Haverhill Multi-Family Development, Freeman Street Connection Brings Opposition

Proposed Haverhill Multi-Family Development, Freeman Street Connection Brings Opposition
Late update: Developer Michael Cassell this morning withdrew his special permit request to construct two triplexes for a total of six units. His lawyer, Michael J. Migliori, told WHAV Cassell will now build two duplexes, for a total of four units, which is allowed by right. “It became clear that it didn’t have enough votes on the Council, especially with …

Sections: Haverhill

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State to Pay for Biking and Carpooling Marketing in Haverhill, Nearby and Andover Mobility Hub

State to Pay for Biking and Carpooling Marketing in Haverhill, Nearby and Andover Mobility Hub
The first round of the state’s Transportation Management Association grants will benefit the promotion of biking and carpooling in Greater Haverhill as well as planning for a mobility hub in Andover. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation program awarded the nonprofit, Marblehead-based Merrimack Valley Transportation Management Association grants of $99,375 for the Andover project and $78,970 for commuter services and marketing …

Sections: Haverhill, Region

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Business Bulletin

Anna Jaques Hospital Says Haverhill YMCA Freight Farm Helps Overcome ‘Food Deserts’

Anna Jaques Hospital Says Haverhill YMCA Freight Farm Helps Overcome ‘Food Deserts’
The first birthday of Haverhill YMCA’s Freight Farm brought out staff, city officials and its primary sponsor for a birthday cake and, of course, salad made with the farm’s own lettuce. Celebrating Wednesday at the Gateway Academy on Primrose Street, where the first YMCA Freight Farm in the country is located, were Mayor Melinda E. Barrett, YMCA Regional Executive Director …

Sections: Business Bulletin, Haverhill, Health

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For more business news, listen to CBS National Business Correspondent Brian Banmiller’s “Banmiller on Business,” Monday-Friday, 9:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. on 97.9 WHAV.

Education

DESE Names Whittier Tech a School of Recognition, the Only Career and Technical School on State List

DESE Names Whittier Tech a School of Recognition, the Only Career and Technical School on State List
Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School was recently named one of the state’s Schools of Recognition for 2024 along with only 56 other schools ranging from traditional high schools to middle schools and elementary schools to charter schools all across Massachusetts. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education named Whittier Tech as the only Career and Technical School to receive …

Sections: Education, Haverhill

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Community Spotlight

Atkinson Garden Club Hosts Open Meeting Featuring Designer Maureen Christmas

Atkinson Garden Club Hosts Open Meeting Featuring Designer Maureen Christmas
The Atkinson Garden Club is set to host an open meeting featuring internationally renowned floral designer Maureen Christmas, Christmas is a National Garden Club master flower show judge and a graduate of the European Master Certification Program. She has been inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers and is a multiple award winner at various design shows. Her work …

Sections: Community Spotlight, Region

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Obituaries New Updated Section

Today’s Obituaries

  • Kenneth S. Etter
  • David R. Rock
  • Theodore E. Descoteaux
Featuring listings from all Haverhill funeral homes:
  • Berube-Comeau Funeral Home
  • Brookside Chapel & Funeral Home
  • Kevin B Comeau Funeral Home
  • Dole Childs & Shaw Funeral Home
  • Driscoll Funeral Home
  • H.L. Farmer & Sons Funeral Homes
  • Paul C. Rogers Funeral Homes
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Do You ‘Give at the Office?’

There was a time when large employers worked with the United Way to encourage employees to give to charity through payroll deductions.

Major donors, such as employees of the Merrimack Valley Works of Western Electric in North Andover, helped popularize the phrase, “I gave at the office.” While programs still exist on a much less aggressive scale, employers also subsidized local news by taking out newspaper and magazine subscriptions with coffee table copies distributed throughout their enterprises.

Today, employers, perhaps without realizing it, subsidize national news through cable television fees. Big screens have replaced coffee table publications. Encourage your employer to support local news and voluntarily subscribing to WHAV News monthly by signing up at WHAV.

WHAV is Greater Haverhill’s only public radio station and nonprofit local news service.

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Today’s Radio Highlights

  • WIN for Breakfast: Local news, national and world news from CBS News, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m. Guest: MeVa Transit Administrator Noah S. Berger.
  • 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.
  • CBS News: Hourly, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except as noted.
  • Wave Weather: Meteorologist James Covington provides Merrimack Valley-specific reports, every half hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except as noted.
  • 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: Hosted by Brett Barry, 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
  • Banmiller on Business: Hosted by CBS National Business Correspondent Brian Banmiller, 9:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
  • Car Chronicles: Hosted by CBS News AutoBeat Reporter Jeff Gilbert, 10:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
  • Insight Daily: 11:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.
  • Haverhill School Committee: Live. 7 p.m.
  • Our Miss Brooks: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.

Friday’s Radio Highlights

  • WIN for Breakfast: Local news, national and world news from CBS News, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m. Guest: Thomas O. Faulkner of Haverhill Bank.
  • 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.
  • CBS News: Hourly, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except as noted.
  • Wave Weather: Meteorologist James Covington provides Merrimack Valley-specific reports, every half hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except as noted.
  • 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: Hosted by Brett Barry, 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
  • Banmiller on Business: Hosted by CBS National Business Correspondent Brian Banmiller, 9:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
  • Car Chronicles: Hosted by CBS News AutoBeat Reporter Jeff Gilbert, 10:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
  • Insight Daily: 11:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.
  • All Request Friday Night: Chris Porter, live, 6:15 p.m. Call 978-374-1900.
  • Couple Next Door: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
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