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The Haverhill school department is looking for new toys, clothing, non-perishable food and household items for families in need during its “Stuff-The-Bus” drive Saturday. Items may be donated Saturday, Dec. 9, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., at both Westgate Shopping Center, 400 Lowell Ave., and Target, 35 Computer Drive, both in Haverhill. Donors will be treated to hot cocoa and cookies throughout the day. Toys should be unwrapped and not include weapon-like toys, including Nerf guns.
Nicole Parks knows the value of music education. Coming on board in September as the new director of UMass Lowell’s String Project, she wants to share the experience of learning—and teaching—music to K-12 public school students from the Merrimack Valley who might not otherwise have a chance to learn to play classical stringed instruments or perform on stage. Founded at the university in 2001, the String Project is a music program UMass Lowell where music students serve as teaching artists in the program, mentoring young musicians and conducting performance ensembles. Participants typically perform two concerts a year for family, friends and the public. “Programs like this are absolutely imperative for a thriving education for children,” Parks said.
Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School and Veterans Northeast Outreach Center are developing a partnership to assist area veterans. Whittier Superintendent Maureen Lynch said a recent school visit was coordinated by Vocational Coordinator Paul Moskevitz and involved Veterans Northeast Outreach Center Outreach Coordinator Jim Behen and various Whittier Tech instructors, including HVAC Instructor Scott Marchand, Auto Body Instructors Paul Debenedictis and Steve Polidoro, Auto Tech Instructor Gene Thomas, Marine Tech Instructor Mike Murray, Advanced Manufacturing Instructor Bruce Boisselle and Plumbing Instructor Eli Roy. “Anything we can do to help veterans, we would love to help out,” said Debenedictis. As a result of the visit, Veterans Northeast found a match with Whittier’s Auto Body, Auto Tech, Marine Tech and Plumbing programs, among others, with a goal to assist local veterans—some of which are retired, living with disabilities and/or are on social security—with services to help ease the financial burden. Behen’s background in vocational education inspired the idea for this partnership.
Northern Essex Community College head men’s soccer coach Eusebio Marote on Friday was named the Matt Cushing College Coach of the Year by the Eastern Massachusetts Soccer Coaches Association. The award is named in honor of the former Wheaton College coach who passed away in 2017. Marote becomes the first community college coach to the win the award. Marote was presented with the award at the Eastern Massachusetts Soccer Coaches Association High School All-Star games at Concord-Carlisle High School after leading the Knights to their most successful season. He’s led the program since it was reestablished in 2019 and the Knights finished the 2023 with an 11-3-1 record, including earning the top seed in the regional and district tournaments with a 7-0-1 record.
Haverhill High School Friday released its first term honor roll, naming students who have earned Honors with Distinction, High Honors and Honors. A full list appears below. Honors with Distinction
Javon Adebayo, Noah Ambrose, Meredith Amirian, Jvian Andino, Samar Awad Salib, William Axford, Joshua Bednarek, Maxim Benanchietti, Jillian Bergeron, Jackson Bridges, Jacob Brindis, Abigail Brownrigg, Miles Bunyar, Gabriella Burdier, Abigail Burrill, Lauryn Calkins, Ella Carroll, Amaya Castro, Jameson Casullo, Natasha Cedar-Penn, Makaylia Cederman, Sophie Coelho, Brenna Corcoran, Carlos Cruz Velazquez, Sophie Da Silveira, Jaydan Dacey, Thayslaine DaSilva, Sophia DeFrank, Logan DeLeon, Emily Dicker, Nathan DiVincentis, Brendan Doody, Francis Dow, Christopher Eder, Aya Elkadmiri, Elena Fairbrother, Eve Farrell, Edward Feoli, Isabella Foskett, Thomas Frame, Avery Fumia, Shannon Gallagher, Cecilia Geyer, Vasiliki Gioldasis, Callan Goncalves, Evelin Gonzalez Herrera, Max Graham, Sebastien Guillaume, Molly Guthrie, Madeline Halupowski, Katelynn Hannon, Orly Hess, MIchael Hickey, Mason Holmes, Julie Howes, Yashira Huertas, Shayla Igoe, Chloe Jones, Liam Jordan, Molly Jordan, Jack Kelleher, Mariam Khair, Michael Kmenta, Sophie Kwiatkowski, Sophia Lafontaine, Sophia Lee, Emily Lenihan, Ty Lescord, Ryan Lessard, Andrew Leung, Taylor Lewis, Natalie Libby, Isabella Likas, Matthew Lopes, Jenelle Macaisip, Meredith MacIver, Caroline Madden, Kaelie McCracken, Abigail Mejia, Brodie Melvin, Aidan Menzie, Gabriella Miller, Makayla Miller, Ariel Minervini, Hannah Minnis, Abby Mistretta, James Modeen, Lily-Rose Molway, Naomy Montero Alvarez, Jackson Morin, Thomas Murphy, Khoi Nguyen Le, Cassidy O’Keefe, Joel Otero Burgos, Ana Oviedo, Cole Pagliuca, Georgios Papanikolaou, Disha Patel, Diya Patel, Kathryn Pelczar, Grace Pelletier, Kylie Petersen, Abigail Pfeil, Alexanderl Pinardi, Colten Pinto, Julianne Piraino, Gabriel Potter, Emmalynnl Proia, Gianna Proia, Livia Qose, Astrid Ramirez Romero, Saralis Ramirez Rosario, Emmanuela Raymond, Michael Reid, Elibeth Rodriguez, Maria Jose Rodriguez, Nyalisse Rosario, Pierce Rowe, Cecily Russell, Hannah Russo, Lauren Samaha, Jillian Schultz, Rebecca Seneca, Nolan Sheehan, Na’Mat Shqair, Mia Smith, Asher Snay, Brendan Snyder, Charles Sparrow, Sydney Spencer, Rowan Staples, Valerie Tarabay, Brennan Tarasuk, Landon Terry, Ryan Trebicka, Manuel Troncoso De La Cruz, Anh Truong, Sara Tucker, Nick Tzortzis, Kiara Ventura, Cameron Whitten, Aidan Wood, Cale Wood, Grace Wood, Grace-laine Woodburn, Sean Wynn and Anna Zuccarello. High Honors
Kymaura Abbott Pina, Tyler Aitcheson, Hannah Allen, Josiah Alleyne, Emily Almeida, Gianna Aloisi, Mallory Amirian, Leah Aquino, Elizabeth Axford, Jude Bach, Matthew Baker, Rodolfo Baltodano Reyes, Jameson Barker, Eve Barton, Gabriel Batista, Michael Bayko, Colin Bean, Emma Bednarek, Joseph Bednarek, Kadyn Belanger, Annabelle Bognanno, Kai’ri Bohanan, Jacob Bonenfant, Avery Borden, Elie Bouraphael, LIa Briana, Courtney Brousseau, Marcelina Burrowes, Alexandra Bushey, Keira Bushey, Patrick Cahill, Autumn Carvalho, Raphaela Carvalho, Kiara Castillo, Michael Castillo, Jazmin Castro-Rocha, Isaiah Celado, Colin Chartier, Connor Chmieleski, Jack Colantuoni, Maya Collins, Sienna Cooper, Ella Crowley, Saul Cruz Matias, Sebastian Cruz, Connor Damske, Elianny De La Cruz Polanco, Emilia DeAza, Mikayla DeFrank, Cooper Dellea, Olivia Dicker, Natasha Dion, Samantha Dion, Isla Donnelly, Kiernan Doody, Lauren Downer, Keira Drouin, Ryan Dunn, Benjamin Ellis, Kylie Etling, Amarachukwu Ezeoke, Olivia Feil, Magdiel Feliz, Joshua Ferreira, Emily Fusco, Brooke Gagne, Sean Gallagher, Blake Garrison, Ivana George, Valentina Geotis, Adalis Gil, Brianna Gomez, Manuel Gomez-Perez, Madelinel Goncalves, Halina Grabski, Lyra Graham, Tucker Grant, Cailin Grenier, Nathan Harrington, Samuel Harrison, Joshua Havens, Gweneth Hennington, Hannaly Herrera, Rowan Hess, Anthony Hoffman, Liam Holloran, Savannah Holloran, Joseph Howes, Ethan Jalbert, Sierra Jepson, Tyler Joslin, Madeline Julien, Cooper Jusko, Bethsheba Kayaga, Jacob Kelley, Elijah Kendrick, Christina Khalil, Ivy Kihono, Jordan Kreyling, Eleanor Kutschke, Kendall LaRiviere, Azlyn Lavin, Emely Lebron Arias, Thomas Lindmark, Nicolas Lira, Richard Littlefield, Flynn Lombard, David Lopez Martinez, Trey Lynch, Noelia Macario, Kelsey Madden, Emma Manning, Helena Mason, Patrick McGowan, Jordan McGrail, Marjorie McIrvin, Olivia Melo, Sohiel Mohamed, Ava Mueller, Jax Mulligan, Alexis Namulinda, Cayla Ngunu, Samantha Noonan, Lucien O’Neil, Favour Obi, Jude Oosting, Aneida Ortega, Thomas Osorio Lopez, Alysha Otero Burgos, April Paez, Melanie Palacios, Ava Jane Paquette, Jamieson Pearl, Emma Pelletier, Alexis Pernilla-Roche, Claire Plourde, Lucien Pothier, Hailee Powe, Olivia Powell, Kenneth Poy, John Prendergast, Ariah Quinnan, Phoenix Quinones, Sahelis Ramirez Rosario, Dean Reinoso, Ariana Reyes Candelario, Kaitlyn Reynolds, France Rigueur, Sophia Riley, Sydney Riley, Santiago Rivera Figueroa, Myles Robertson, Timothy Robertson, Diego Rodriguez Acevedo, Arianna Rodriguez, Yelianny Rodriguez, Eli Rogers, Neishaly Rosa, Alexavier Rosado, Jancis Rosario Soriano, Spencer Roux, Ryan Roy, John Rubera, Ray Ruiz, Gianni Salcedo, Gianna Salvato, Brayan Sanchez, Jenna Santo, Sylvie Schoenfeld, Nicholas Schraffa, Jenna Schultz, Finn Seaberg, Kayley Shapiro, Andrew Silva, Alec Simoneau, Joseph Simoneau, Brady Smith, Colby Smith, Luke Smith, Colin Snyder, Hailey Spurlin, Samuel Stanley, Miles Stapel, Brian Story, Talan Stratton, Gerald Taabi, Meredith Tabb, Molly Tabb, Isabella Tanguay, Noah Tanguay, Irving Taveras,Tristan Taylor, Charlene Tchouanmou, Emiliano Tiburcio Munoz, Mikayla Tzortzis, Nathan Villa, Juan Villasenor Monrreal, Kate Vivia Romero, Ava Votto, Riley Whelan, Isabel Whittaker, Nathaniel Wholley, Indigo Wilcox, Alexandra Yattaw, Saidatu Yussif, Anushey Zahid and Sean Ziminski. Honors
Levi Abrams, Ava Acosta, Leonardo Alcantar Cruz, Joseph Alleva, Boston Alvino, Kailyn Aquino, Gabriel Atencio-Earnshaw, Zachary Attridge, Ashley Auguste, Thomas Avolio, Gabriella Bailey, Reem Balbesi, Pablo Banos, Eva Barbrick, Joy Barman, Colin Bateman, Ashley Batista Payamps, Isabella Bazdanes, Joshua Bedient, Safaa Bellebia, Caroline Berthiaume, Alexander Bissonnette, Hunter Blais, Christopher Blanco, Lincoln Bohanan, Riley Bradish, Jonathan Brown, Christopher Butt, Donald Cannon Watkins, Bobby Caron, Sophia Caruso, Aydin Castillo, Emmerson Cerasuolo, Justin Thomas Chase, Sophia Ciccariello, Kiara Cloutier, Isaac Cortes Polo, Jake Costa, Romeo Crespo, Evelyn Cronin, Hollie Cruickshank, Geovanna Da Rocha, Joshua De La Cruz Lantigua, Erick De La Cruz, Madison Defino, Nevaeh Del Rossi, Ariel Desir, Lily Dewar, Angel Diaz, Yandel Diaz, Jesse DiChiara, Parker DiNatale, Richard Dow, Sammy Elfakih, Kamylly Vitoria Ernesto, Bryan Estrella, Delia Evans, Cameron Fawcett, Jay Faxon, Hileric Feliz Ventura, Stephane Fevry, Jezrael Fonseca Morel, Madison Foster, Alex Franco, Gavin Gaetano, Megan Gardner, Isabella Giampa, Sophia Giampa, Alyssa Giarrusso, Isabella Giordano, Veronica Gomez Anziani, Olivia Gonzalez, Naveah Gosselin, Cadia Griffin, Isabella Harb, Thomas Hardy, Lucas Harvey, Caleb Hassan, Gabriel Hassan, Dimier Hill, Mackenzie Hillsgrove, Kendall Holmes Lavallee, Madison Howard, Martha Itugi, Emma Janes, Kayla Johnston, Lily Jope, Jayla Joseph, Nevaeh Joubert, J’Anna Joyce, Benjamin Karpinski, Lauren Keenan, John Kelly, Madison Kulpa, Violet Landry, Christian LeColst, Isabelle Leger, Avery Lescord, Jack Libucha, Trevor Lindmark, Aidan Lora, Tyler Lovejoy, Christian Jake Macam, Liam Mackey, Megan Manning, Madalyn McDonald, Ryleigh McGinley, Evan McNeil, Sofia Medina Berrios, Jadiel Mercado, Emily Miller, Cassandra Miscowski, Johnny Mooradian, Cameron Morse, Ava Moscaritolo, Aaron Muiruri, William Murphy, Shayla Nascimento, Adreana Ndaira, Brent Nicolosi, Bella Nieves, Duval Nunez, Gabriella Ortins, Patrick Osgood, Lucciano Palacin, John Papageorgiou, Theodora Parkiotis, Daksh Patel, Juan Paucar Guaman, Nancy Perez Cruz, Aaron Pernilla-Roche, Jennifer Perrault, Myan Pham, Orakanya Pirompin, Amiah Pozo, Kleisa Prifti, Francesca Purdy, Jesus Quinones Quinones, Yanelyn Quintana, Kaylee Quirk, Johan Rivera-Perez, Caleb Roberts, Hayden Roberts, Samantha Robertson, Marianna Robinson, Candido Rodriguez, Christopher Rodriguez, Anyelo Rojas Montealegre, Raily Romano Hidalgo, Aaden Rosa, Alex Rosa, Jeffrey Rosa, Lilly Russo, Violet Schiller, Finnian Schmidt, Gemma Schoenfeld, Michael Seitz, Ryan Seitz, Benjamin Seneca, Grey Smolar, Kenneth Snay, Janelle Sousa, Lily Souza, GIanna Spero, Nathan Sperring, Max St.
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The first students who will attend the new Dr. Albert B. Consentino School when it opens in 2026 were among those in attendance Monday morning for ceremonies marking the official start of construction. Consentino School Principal Richard Poor, who served as master of ceremonies for the chilly outdoor event, made note of the students as he welcomed city and state officials, including Massachusetts School Building Authority CEO James A. MacDonald. “I’d like to give a special shout out to our fifth graders—all 225 of them—who will likely be the first class to occupy the new Consentino School,” Poor said, followed by cheers and loud applause. Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini, who thanked mayor-elect Melinda E. Barrett and other local elected leaders as well as the city’s legislative delegation for their support, also directed his remarks to students. “Mostly, I want to thank you kids.
Haverhill Promise is being honored by the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading with Pacesetter Honors for its 2022-23 work. Haverhill Promise Executive Director Jessica Kallin said Monday the award recognizes the group’s partnership with Book Buddies. “Through our collaborative efforts, Haverhill Promise has worked to increase engagement in our community to collectively promote literacy and foster meaningful relationships,” she said. “Our partnership with Book Buddies has underscored the transformative power of fostering intergenerational connections through the shared joy of reading. With the support of nearly 500 volunteers in Haverhill and our wonderful teachers and schools, we can pave the path for a brighter future, one handwritten letter and book at a time.”
Haverhill Book Buddies founder Matt Webel added, “In three short years, Book Buddies has shattered our expectations.
Watch out for that turkey! Pentucket Regional Middle High School is having its first Turkey Toss tomorrow with students, staff and public safety teams all competing for Turkey Toss trophies. The event, which concludes the school’s Spirit Week, features three rounds of toss and catch with a 10-pound turkey. Participants will be scored on the farthest throw and a successful catch. Afterward, all turkeys will be donated to a local food pantry following the event.
The recent request for a mediator to resolve contract negotiations between the Haverhill and educational support professionals brought condemnation last night of those who would bring a School Committee member’s disabled son into the fray. As WHAV reported first, School Committee negotiators sent the request to the state Department of Labor Relations once it appeared the two sides had reached an impasse in negotiations. Haverhill Education Association President Barry Davis accused School Committee negotiators Richard J. Rosa and Gail M. Sullivan of not bringing that decision to the entire School Committee beforehand. He also charged them with having a personal agenda to beat the union. Davis continued to express his dissatisfaction with the decision at last night’s meeting.