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Bicyclist Suffers Serious Injuries After Collision with Auto Saturday in Downtown Haverhill

Bicyclist Suffers Serious Injuries After Collision with Auto Saturday in Downtown Haverhill
A bicyclist suffered serious injuries after a collision with an automobile Saturday afternoon in downtown Haverhill. The man was struck around 5:30 p.m. at the intersection of Merrimack and Main Streets, known as White’s Corner. Although not identified officially, the injured man is said by his friends to be 44-year-old Paul Greeley, a local musician, photographer and volunteer at HC …

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Haverhill Firefighter Receives Injuries at Two-Alarm Condominium Blaze in Bradford

Haverhill Firefighter Receives Injuries at Two-Alarm Condominium Blaze in Bradford
A Haverhill firefighter received, what were described as “minor injuries” while battling a two-alarm fire Saturday in Bradford. Haverhill Fire Chief Robert M. O’Brien told WHAV the unidentified firefighter “twisted his back” while on the roof of a 13-unit condominium building at 9 Myles Standish Drive in Haverhill’s Bradford section. All residents, estimated by officials at 28 people, safely escaped. …

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Haverhill Nonprofits Detail Successes with City Youth Activities and Mental Health Grants

Haverhill Nonprofits Detail Successes with City Youth Activities and Mental Health Grants
A grant of $500,000, shared among 29 different nonprofits serving the Haverhill youth, is a success according to those agencies, the kids involved and the Mental Health and Youth Advisory Committee that distributed the money. During last year’s city spending negotiations, Councilor Melinda E. Barrett engineered a compromise with Mayor James J. Fiorentini that created a Youth Activities and Mental …

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Regional News

Gov. Baker Agrees with Soldiers' Home Bill Pushed by Rep. Campbell, but Seeks Delay

Gov. Baker Agrees with Soldiers' Home Bill Pushed by Rep. Campbell, but Seeks Delay
A little more work is required before a bill, championed by Rep. Linda Dean Campbell, takes effect to improve oversight of the state’s soldiers’ homes. Stressing his support for the goals of the underlying measure, Gov. Charlie Baker on Saturday returned to lawmakers a bill reshaping oversight and management at state-run soldiers’ homes with an amendment giving the executive branch …

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GLFHC Residency Physicians Join Practices in Haverhill, Methuen and Across the Country

GLFHC Residency Physicians Join Practices in Haverhill, Methuen and Across the Country
Nine graduates of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center’s Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program are off to work as family physicians in Haverhill, Methuen, Lynn and locations throughout the country. They spent half their residency working through an unprecedented pandemic that at times saw them losing multiple patients a day to COVID-19.  All nine members of the Class of 2022 are …

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Education

Gov. Baker Signs ‘School Meals for All’ Law, Championed Locally by Rep. Vargas After Fed Inaction

Gov. Baker Signs ‘School Meals for All’ Law, Championed Locally by Rep. Vargas After Fed Inaction
Gov. Charlie Baker put his signature last Thursday on a one-year extension of School Meals for All, championed by Rep. Andy X. Vargas and Sen. Sal DiDomenico. Project Bread and the Feed Kids Coalition hailed the new law that ensures 400,000 students will continue to have access to school meals despite federal inaction. Massachusetts is the fifth state to guarantee …

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Community Spotlight

Annual Yankee Homecoming Veteran Luncheon Takes Place Tuesday in Newburyport

Annual Yankee Homecoming Veteran Luncheon Takes Place Tuesday in Newburyport
Area veterans are invited to partake in the free Annual Yankee Homecoming Veteran Luncheon Tuesday. The Veteran Luncheon has been hosted during Yankee Homecoming for the last 12 years, and was started and managed by Korean War Veteran, Frank Ventura. “Our veterans are our own national treasures,” said Haverhill resident and Yankee Homecoming Committee Member Donald Jarvis. “Whether returning recently …

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Business Bulletin

Merrimack Valley Chamber Presents ‘Sisters in the Workplace’ at Women in Business Lunch

Merrimack Valley Chamber Presents ‘Sisters in the Workplace’ at Women in Business Lunch
“Sisters in the Workplace” is the theme of the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Women in Business lunch. Methuen-based A.P. Michaud Insurance Agency’s Kate Henderson, personal and commercial lines producer, and Tricia Sabulis, vice president, address the networking at noon program Tuesday, Aug. 9, from noon-1:15 p.m., at China Blossom restaurant, 946 Osgood Sr., North Andover. Admission is $28 for …

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  • Sound Beat: 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
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