Community Spotlight

Novello to Prepare Bouquets at Womens City Club of Haverhill

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Designer Nick Novello of Nunan Florist and Greenhouses of Georgetown will demonstrate work on three bouquets when the Womens City Club of Haverhill meets next. The Club meets the third Tuesday of every month with the next one taking place Tuesday, Oct. 20, from noon to 2 p.m., at Advent Christian Church, 160 Carleton St., Haverhill. The meeting begins at noon with business and light lunch, followed by Novello’s presentation at 1 p.m.

Looking ahead, the Club is having a coat drive next month and food drive in December, where cans and boxed item are collected. Women are invited to visit the club, meet members and learn more as guests three times for free.

Crime

Police, Marshals Arrest Woman in Alleged Thursday Night Shooting in Haverhill

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A Sandown, N.H., woman was arrested Friday afternoon in connection with an alleged shooting the night before in Haverhill. Exeter, N.H., Police reported Friday 54-year-old Nona M. Basnett weas arrested after the department received a call from Haverhill Police around noon, saying Haverhill “tracked a shooting suspect to a residence on Chapman Way in Exeter”

Exeter reported Haverhill Police obtained an arrest warrant to charge Basnett with assault to murder while armed, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, carrying a loaded firearm without a license and possession of large capacity firearm/feeding device. Basnett was arrested without incident Friday at 12:11 p.m., Exeter Police added, by members of the U.S. Marshals Service, detectives from Haverhill Police and Exeter Police patrol officers. She was taken to the Exeter Police Department and charged as a fugitive from justice, a Class B felony and later to the Rockingham County Jail. Basnett is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.

Haverhill

Barrett Names Gulubicki as City’s Economic Development Chief

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Alison J. Gulubicki is Haverhill’s new economic development director. Gulubicki was appointed by Mayor Melinda E. Barrett and took her seat in City Hall last week, succeeding William Pillsbury Jr., who retired. She is well known throughout the city for her work at the Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce, for the last, almost two years, as executive director of the Greater Haverhill Foundation. “We’re excited to have Alison on board. I worked with her on the Mayor’s Economic Development Task Force that was set up in her role as representative of the Greater Haverhill Foundation.

Haverhill

Public Meetings This Week: Planning Board to Hear Battery Storage Zoning Plans

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The public has opportunities to shape policy this week as various Haverhill boards meet. In the interest of transparency in government, WHAV provides this list of upcoming meetings every week on air and online. A proposal to designate land on upper Hilldale Avenue site as a possible site for any future proposals for a battery energy storage system—or BESS—gets a hearing Wednesday by the Haverhill Planning Board. The board will hear public comments before deciding whether to recommend zoning changes to the full Haverhill City Council to be heard Tuesday, Oct. 27.

Haverhill

Haverhill High School Rowing to Compete in Head of the Charles Regatta

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For the first time in its nearly 10-year history, the Haverhill High School rowing team has qualified a boat for the world-famous Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. Haverhill rowing is sending a five-man team of Ben Ellis, Jude Oosting, CJ Gondolfo, Teddy Thorner and Julien Pothier as the coxswain. Rowing coach Connor Hayden said he believes the Hillies can compete. “They’re getting really excited to go. I think they’re going to do a pretty good job.

Election Central

Local Debate Tuesday Weighs Merits of Major Parties vs. Top Two Election Vote-Getters

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One of the nine questions voters are considering this fall would, if approved, upend the traditional system of choosing party-affiliated candidates on separate ballots and instead give everyone a combined list from which to choose. The debate over the question comes to Haverhill Tuesday night. Supporter Danielle Allen of the Coalition for Healthy Democracy and opponent Jordan Berg Powers of Voting Rights MA face off during a debate Tuesday night, between 7 and 8:30 p.m., at Northern Essex Community College’s Hartleb Technology Center, 100 Elliott St. Doors open to the public at 6:30 p.m. CommonWealth Beacon senior reporters Jennifer Smith and Chris Lisinski moderate. The question has united typically opposing sides—former Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and former Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, both in favor, and the Republican and Democratic state parties, both opposed.

Business Bulletin

Verani Realty Collects 14,000+ Lbs. of Food During 10th Annual Drive

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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty last month collected more than 14,000 pounds of food and donated $20,000 to local food banks during its 10th Annual Food Drive, supporting organizations and families across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. Throughout September, Verani Realty agents, employees, clients and community members collected nonperishable food at offices and in neighborhoods throughout the region. Many agents brought the drive directly into the communities they serve, delivering collection bags to local homes and returning to pick up donations. “For 10 years, this food drive has been about our agents, employees and neighbors coming together to help people right here in our communities,” said Margherita Verani, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty. “Seeing more than 14,000 pounds of food donated this year is incredible, and we’re grateful to everyone who helped make it possible.”

The food collected was distributed to the Merrimack Valley Food Bank, New Hampshire Food Bank, Alton Food Pantry, SHARE Food Pantry, Upper Valley Haven, Saint Anne Parish Food Pantry, Liberty House and St.

Election Central

Haverhill Prepares to Cast Ballots Before Election Day with Vote by Mail, Early Voting

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The final state election is closer than some may think with Vote by Mail ballots arriving soon in mailboxes of those requesting them and early voting getting underway at the end of next week. Secretary of State William F. Galvin’s office said more than 600,000 ballots are on their way to voters across the state who applied to vote by mail and local election officials are expected to mail another 300,000 ballots in the next several days. Haverhill City Clerk Kaitlin M. Wright Esposito said this week early voting begins Saturday, Oct. 17, and runs through Friday, Oct. 30, and takes place in the basement of City Hall, 4 Summer St.