A number of area organizations were formally awarded Community Investment Tax Credits last week to help leverage their own money aimed at expanding programming for low- and moderate-income residents. Those receiving tax credits for use throughout the area include Act Lawrence, $50,000; Groundwork Lawrence, $200,000; Lawrence Community Works, $250,000; and Mill Cities Community Investments, $200,000. The credits enable the groups to raise more from local donors for small business support, community development, art and placemaking initiatives, affordable housing preservation and development, youth programming and more. Mill Cities Community Investments, for example, is a collaborator in The Haverhill Partnership Venture Fund along with Align Credit Union, Enterprise Bank, Haverhill Bank and Pentucket Bank.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Learning the basics of how government works is a lesson that state Rep. Linda Dean Campbell wants to make sure is taught in the schools. Campbell, who represents Methuen and Haverhill and not running for re-election this fall, recently worked with Haverhill state Rep. Andy X. Vargas to advocate for support to further the state’s nearly four-year-old civics education requirement
“It was fantastic because you had the older person, like myself, and you had the younger person, like Andy, really, really pushing for this. He brought so much to the table.
Looking for something unique to do today? In observance of Independence Day, the public has an opportunity to view a 1780 letter from founding father and U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton that was stolen from the state during World War II. Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin said the Hamilton letter was stolen from the Massachusetts Archives during World War II and resurfaced at an auction house in 2018.
