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97.9 WHAV ♦ October 06, 2023 ♦ Public Media of New England, Inc.
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Scroll Down for Important Message About the Future of Local News Below
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Gov. Healey Brings her Tax Cut Tour to Haverhill; Residents Speak of Needed Savings
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(Additional photograph below.) Massachusetts Gov. Maura T. Healey used the backdrop of a Haverhill YMCA child care program to highlight her $1 billion tax cut, including, as the administration describes, “the nation’s most generous Child and Family Tax Credit.” Healey came to the Y in downtown Haverhill yesterday to call attention to her signing this week of a tax cut …
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Sections: Haverhill, State House News
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Italian Consul General Minuti at Haverhill City Hall for Columbus Day and Italian Heritage Month
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Italian Consul General Arnaldo Minuti is in Haverhill Friday to observe Columbus Day and Italian Heritage Month with Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini and the public. Minuti, consul general of Italy in Boston, is expected at noon at the mayor’s office in City Hall. Fiorentini often speaks of his Italian heritage. He told WHAV the public is welcome. The Italian …
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State Police Arrest Wanted Haverhill Man and Woman After Series of Carjackings; Man Had Rifle
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A man and woman, both believed to be involved in a series of armed carjackings after they fled from Haverhill Police Tuesday night, were arrested this morning by Massachusetts State Police. Thirty-five-year-old Nathan Saben and 40-year-old Jessica Tirone were arrested after State Police pursued them just after 9 a.m. from Lawrence to Dracut. Saben, who had a rifle with him, …
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Sections: Crime, Haverhill
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Haverhill YMCA Inaugurates Hydroponic Container Garden at City’s Gateway Academy
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(Additional photographs below.) The first YMCA Freight Farm in the country was formally inaugurated Wednesday at Haverhill’s Gateway Academy. The 40 by 8-foot shipping container, adorned in bright colors with the message “The Y Feeds Kids” on the side, is a collaboration between the Haverhill Y and Haverhill Public Schools. Inside the hydroponic farm, behind the school’s new location at …
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Sections: Education, Haverhill
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Methuen Police Arrest Two in Connection with Alleged Physical Abuse of Child on School Bus
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Two Lawrence women, ages 56 and 38, were arrested Tuesday by Methuen Police and charged in connection with the physical abuse of a 10-year-old child on a bus contracted with Methuen Public Schools. Nancy Vasquez, a bus monitor, was charged with assault and battery on a disabled person, while Marlene Cruz, a bus driver, was charged with permitting abuse of …
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Podcast: Sixth Annual Methuen Day Saturday Brings Bands, Organ Concert, Food and More
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A community celebration is set to take place tomorrow in downtown Methuen with the observance of the sixth annual Methuen Day. Methuen City Councilor and Methuen Day Chairwoman Eunice D. Zeiger was a recent guest on WHAV’s “Win for Breakfast” program and outlined what to expect. “We have the police station open house from 10-2 and the fire station open …
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N.H. Federal Grand Jury Indicts Methuen, Plaistow, Lawrence Residents for Drug Trafficking
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Residents of Methuen, Plaistow, N.H., Lawrence and other communities were indicted by a federal grand jury in New Hampshire in connection with a Lawrence-based drug trafficking operation. New Hampshire U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young said Thursday that over the past day and a half, police arrested nine of 15 people on conspiracy to distribute controlled substances charges, namely fentanyl and …
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Haverhill Firefighting Museum’s Annual Chili Cookoff Oct. 21
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It’s getting hot, hot, hot at the Haverhill Firefighting Museum with the annual Chili Cookoff. Chefs are invited to bring their best recipes to the museum where taste-testing visitors will decide which spicy dishes are best. For a $10 admission fee, there will also be door prizes, a silent auction and more. The Haverhill Firefighting Museum’s annual Chili Cookoff brings …
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Sections: Community Spotlight, Haverhill
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Nonprofits Seek to Recruit Volunteers During Greater Haverhill Chamber Fair Oct. 18
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The Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce is having a Volunteer Fair to recruit volunteers for local nonprofit organizations. Organizers say the fair is an excellent opportunity for interested volunteers to take a look at different organizations and what they bring forth to the community. Among those attending are the Haverhill YMCA, Northern Essex Elder Transportation, Haverhill Public-Private Partnership and Emmaus. …
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Sections: Business Bulletin, Haverhill
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A Candid Assessment of the State of Local News
I’m going to frank with you. WHAV would normally be starting its fall fundraising campaign this week, but we’ve had to have all hands on deck to cover news from carjackings to a gubernatorial visit and the opening of a school container farm to updates on the most consequential local election in the city’s history.
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Let’s be clear, nonprofit WHAV is a multimedia operation. This means staff not only are conducting interviews and attending newsmaking events, but also recording and editing sound for the radio and podcasts and taking photographs for the web, social media and eNewspaper Wavelengths. WHAV also has to equip and maintain downtown studios as well as the Silver Hill transmitting facilities, ensure audio streams online 24-7 and more.
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Every day, I hear people complaining about how so little news appears elsewhere and how much they pay for that. Often times, these are the same people who browbeat WHAV to cover their businesses or events, but don’t underwrite programs, take a personal membership subscription or make a donation. Others are content to be willfully ignorant—not following any local news at all—but still go on social media to complain about taxes, schools and construction and spout reckless half-truths.
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If you believe this community needs a local news service and that information should be freely available to everyone, begin your membership at whav.net/become-a-whav-member if you’re not already a donor or tell your friends, family and neighbors to become subscribers and suggest your employer underwrite the news. WHAV, Greater Haverhill’s only public radio station and nonprofit local news service, receives no government grants or cable television fees.
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Today’s Radio Highlights
- WIN for Breakfast: Local news, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m. Guests: Rep. Andy X. Vargas and Kerri Sheeran Perry, CEO of Community Action.
- 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.
- 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: 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
- Insight Daily: 9:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
- Countdown to Halloween: Special, every day in October, 10:45 a.m. and 10:45 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.
- FSN World News: 11 p.m.
Saturday’s Radio Highlights
- Classic Hits: Favorites all day, except as indicated
- Community Spotlight: News of upcoming cultural and civic events, quarter past every hour
- Wave Weather: Every 30 minutes
- FSN World News: Noon, 6 and 11 p.m.
- Take Two Movie Review: 8:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.
- Mass Moments: Today in Massachusetts history, 6:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.
- Countdown to Halloween: Special, every day in October, 10:45 a.m. and 10:45 p.m.
- Gunsmoke: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
Sunday’s Radio Highlights
- Classic Hits: Favorites all day, except as indicated
- Community Spotlight: News of upcoming cultural and civic events, quarter past every hour
- Wave Weather: Every 30 minutes
- FSN World News: Noon, 6 and 11 p.m.
- Take Two Movie Review: 8:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.
- Mass Moments: Today in Massachusetts history, 6:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.
- Countdown to Halloween: Special, every day in October, 10:45 a.m. and 10:45 p.m.
- Let George Do It: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
Monday’s Radio Highlights
- WIN for Breakfast: Local news, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m. Guests: Rep. Ryan Hamilton and Thomas Spitalere of Essex County Ghost Project.
- 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.
- 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: 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
- Insight Daily: 9:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
- Countdown to Halloween: Special, every day in October, 10:45 a.m. and 10:45 p.m.
- Suspense: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
- FSN World News: 11 p.m.
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