|
|
|
97.9 WHAV ♦ March 13, 2024 ♦ Public Media of New England, Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20 Veterans Use New Service to Access VA; Haverhill Center Seeks Grant to Hire Transportation Help
|
|
|
After its launch three months ago, 20 veterans are now traveling to the Bedford VA through a free, door-to-door Merrimack Valley Transit—or MeVa Transit—mini bus. Speaking during the Haverhill City Council meeting last night, MeVa Assistant General Manager Juan Guillermo said Bedford lies outside of MeVa’s jurisdiction, and received state money for the service, as WHAV reported. He added that …
|
|
|
|
|
|
Firefighters Train at Soon-to-Be Demolished House; Haverhill Site to be Oxford Crossing
|
|
|
(Additional photographs below.) Haverhill firefighters have been getting some practical training this week at a vacant house that will become part of a Ward Hill “village” called “Oxford Crossing.” Two houses across from the former Joseph’s Trattoria in Ward Hill have been fenced off in preparation for demolition, and even a portion of the street at Knipe Road is being …
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
UMass Lowell Chemistry Students Working on Gel to Remove Harmful PFAS from Drinking Water
|
|
|
What have been called dangerous “forever chemicals,” used to make nonstick cookware to firefighting foam have made their ways into drinking water, but UMass Lowell researchers are working on a new gel to remove the substances. Led by chemistry Assistant Professor James Reuther, the work to remove PFAS—per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—is supported by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts …
|
Sections: Education, Region
|
|
|
|
|
|
Whittier Birthplace’s Virtual Lecture Series to Feature History of Rocks Village Neighborhood
|
|
|
(See also, “Henry Ford Buys a Piece of Whittierland During 1928 City Visit.”) Lydia Harris and Susan Bailey of the Rocks Village Memorial Association discuss “A History of the Rocks Village Neighborhood in Haverhill” during the March edition of Whittier Birthplace’s Virtual Lecture Series. Harris and Bailey talk about connecting Whittier to Rocks Village through the poem, “The Countess.” Topics …
|
Sections: Community Spotlight, Haverhill
|
|
|
|
|
|
Merrimack Valley Chamber Seeking Exhibitors Before Friday’s Early Bird Deadline
|
|
|
The Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce is signing up exhibitors for its Spring Business Expo, Health and Wellness Fair taking place April 3. Exhibitors receive 8- by 6- foot tables and two chairs with optional double or corner booths, breakfast, hot lunch and after-expo networking and other benefits. Standard spaces for Chamber members are $325 if ordered before Friday, March …
|
Sections: Business Bulletin, Haverhill
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You Benefit When Your Neighbor is Informed
“People not only don’t know what’s happening to them, they don’t even know that they don’t know.”
― Noam Chomsky
|
We’ve all seen it. That friend on social media who spouts off about outdated news or just spreads rumors or misinformation.
|
|
Greater Haverhill’s only public radio station and nonprofit local news service thanks WHAV members and donors who make this free service available because they realize an informed public makes for better neighbors, employees, volunteers, customers, leaders and voters.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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: Haverhill Public-Private Partnership Director Allison Heartquist and Erin Padilla of Creative Haverhill.
- 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.
- Great Gildersleeve: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
- FSN World News: 11 p.m.
Thursday’s Radio Highlights
- WIN for Breakfast: Local news, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m. Guest: Michael Thompson, Haverhill SCORE Volunteer.
- 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.
- Haverhill School Committee: Live. 7 p.m.
- Our Miss Brooks: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
- FSN World News: 11 p.m.
|
|
|
Listen Now
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
