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Northern Essex Knights Men’s Soccer Overtakes Quincy 9-1

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Northern Essex Community College men’s soccer team, ranked #10 in the week one NJCAA poll, opened the region portion of their schedule Saturday afternoon with a rout of Quincy College by a 9-1 final score. The win was the Knights fourth straight and improved the overall record to 4-2. Northern Essex saw eight different players score as they outshot the visiting Granite 41-9 in the game. Thomas Kotas of Methuen got the Knights on the board in the 11th minute with a header that beat the keeper into the lower left corner of the net on an assist from Cristian Lopez of Chelsea. The goal was his team leading fifth of the season.

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Northern Essex Production of ‘Steel Magnolias’ Serves to Honor Parton

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Northern Essex Community College Theater presents Steel Magnolias, the comedy-drama by Robert Harling, next month. Set in a close-knit Louisiana beauty salon, “Steel Magnolias” follows a circle of Southern women who lean on humor, gossip and each other through life’s biggest joys and hardest losses. The play’s title captures its heart: characters as delicate as magnolias, yet as resilient as steel. The production is directed by national award-winning Director and Northern Essex Professor Brianne Beatrice, with student Jay Ouellette serving as assistant director. The cast is led by national award-winning actor Naima Eve as Truvy, alongside Katherine Caulfield, Rachael Knipe, Tawny Marshall, Gianna Proia and Laurille Wirling, an Excellence in Performance nominee for her portrayal of Harper in NECC Theater’s “Angels in America.”

Beatrice said the show’s themes feel especially timely and wasn’t chosen because of Dolly Parton, who played Truvy in the 1989 film adaptation of the play, she said the country icon’s passing last month gave the production a new resonance.

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Whittier Tech Seeks Land Option at Northern Essex Community College

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The Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School Committee will formally ask the state for an option on about 13.5 acres on the Northern Essex Community College campus in Haverhill as part of the process of potentially siting a new school building there. Angus G. Jennings, new Whittier Tech business manager, recommended Wednesday that Whittier Tech School Committee members take out an exclusive right to the land before any money is spent on hiring a project manager or architects. “You know we would hate to see the School Committee spend quite a bit of public money only to find this site is not going to happen,” Jennings explained. Jennings noted that while the trustees and administration at Northern Essex have been on board with a shared campus idea from the start, college trustees do not have the authority to commit the land. “As much as Northern Essex has been a great partner and very fully engaged and fully supportive, and on the front end of this idea, with all due respect, it’s not their land.

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Whittier Tech Considers Bringing Two Courses to Northern Essex

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A plan by Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School to add three new courses and expand enrollment by 80 students received the cold shoulder Wednesday from Whittier School Committee members. Principal and Assistant Superintendent Christopher Laganas, along with several of his administrators, gave an overview of the cost to add criminal justice, facility maintenance management and information support services networking and locate two of them at the Haverhill campus of Northern Essex Community College. Laganas estimated the cost to open the programs at $830,000. Haverhill would bear the highest cost at $304,000 with West Newbury’s share at the low end of $3,808. Groveland would pay $11,469; Merrimac, $13,574; and Amesbury, $13,587.

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Kotas Puts Up Four Goals as Knights Defeat New Hampshire Tech

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Northern Essex Community College soccer defeated New Hampshire Technical Institute in an 8-1 blowout, Tuesday night. Knights’ striker Thomas Kotas put up four goals in the victory. Kotas had two early opportunities that did not reach the back of the net, but he would turn his luck around after putting in his first goal in the seventh minute, with an assist from Matheus Martins. Kotas put in one more in the first half and two in the second to cap off the night. In a postgame interview with WHAV, Kotas said, “It was a collective, team thing.

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Haverhill High Interns Spend Summer Working on Clean Energy Solutions

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As students returned to the classroom in recent days, one group could claim bragging rights about what they did this summer. Fourteen Haverhill High School students worked on paid Lemelson-MIT Program internships, identifying and ranking problems in the clean energy sector with the aim of finding solutions. As WHAV reported last spring, the program is backed by a $400,000 grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Lemelson-MIT Program Invention Education Manager Edwin Marrero told WHAV what students were asked to do. “We said, ‘If you were to create a solution for this problem, how impactful do you think it would be?’ So, they sorted the problems first by impact and do they require urgent or not urgent solution?”

Among problems they found are supply and demand on the electrical grid and lack of trust around recycling information.

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Merrimack College’s Yarbrough, Melenciano First Recipients of McGillivray Scholarship

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Merrimack College track and field student athletes Jadis Yarbrough and Elizardo Melenciano were recently named the first recipients of the David McGillivray ’76 Endowed Scholarship. A $100,000 scholarship, established by longtime running industry leader, philanthropist and Merrimack alumnus McGillivray. The new endowed scholarship creates a permanent source of financial support for future Merrimack student athletes, with Yarbrough, a native of Chicopee, and Melenciano, a former Lawrence High School track runner, becoming first recipients. The scholarship provides need-based financial assistance to Merrimack undergraduate students who participate in a running discipline on one of the college’s varsity athletic teams.

McGillivray’s connection to Merrimack goes back more than 50 years. He graduated as valedictorian in 1976, helped get the college’s cross country and track programs started, delivered Merrimack’s commencement address and was inducted into its Athletics Hall of Fame.

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HHS Marine Corps Junior ROTC Plans 9/11 Ceremony

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Haverhill High School’s U.S. Marine Corps Junior ROTC leads a 9/11 Memorial Ceremony Friday. Marine Corps Junior ROTC cadets will “honor the lives lost, the heroes who emerged and the strength of a nation that will never forget.” They plan an opening ceremony with a performance of the National Anthem, presentation of colors, guest speaker to be announced, moment of silence, playing Taps and closing remarks. Parents, families and the public are invited to attend Friday, Sept. 11, arrival by 8:15 a.m., at Haverhill High School, 137 Monument St., Haverhill. U.S. Marine 1st Sgt.