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Attendance, Staffing, Program Expansion to Take Center Spots in Haverhill School Spending Priorities

Attendance, Staffing, Program Expansion to Take Center Spots in Haverhill School Spending Priorities
With school budget season fast approaching, members of the Haverhill School Committee last Thursday presented some of its ideas on top issues requiring attention in the upcoming year. Committee member Gail M. Sullivan outlined her top priority, saying in order for education to be effective students first have to attend class. “The priority of mine is to improve attendance. I …

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Haverhill Residents Not Receiving Discounted Electric Rate Have Another Chance to Enroll

Haverhill Residents Not Receiving Discounted Electric Rate Have Another Chance to Enroll
Haverhill residents who missed out on a discounted energy rate when the local bulk purchasing program filled last fall now have another chance. Although Haverhill’s Community Choice Power Supply Program pulled the plug on new enrollments at the end of September, the city’s provider is now enrolling households with terms about a third lower than National Grid’s standard rate. Mayor …

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State Police Arrest Apparently Armed Man with Drugs at Interstate 495 Rest Area in Haverhill

State Police Arrest Apparently Armed Man with Drugs at Interstate 495 Rest Area in Haverhill
State Police, conducting a wellness check last Thursday on a driver parked along a guardrail at an Interstate 495 rest stop in Haverhill, discovered a Maine man with a loaded gun and what appeared to be heroin and other drugs. State Police troopers out of the Newbury barracks arrested 34-year-old Robert Rutty of Limerick, Maine, after first spotting two bags …

Sections: Crime, Haverhill

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Regional News

Mirra Makes Case to Special House Committee to be Named Election Winner; Cites ‘Human Error’

Mirra Makes Case to Special House Committee to be Named Election Winner; Cites ‘Human Error’
Chris Lisinski, State House News Service. Both Republican candidates who want Massachusetts lawmakers to reverse or nullify their narrow election losses said Friday that they attribute the alleged problems to “human error,” not to fraud or more politically charged motivation. A three-member House panel set out Friday to examine the results in the Second Essex District, where Democrat Kristin Kassner …

Sections: Election Central, Region

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Education

Greater Lawrence Tech Senior and Class President is Nominee for U.S. Presidential Scholars Program

Greater Lawrence Tech Senior and Class President is Nominee for U.S. Presidential Scholars Program
Greater Lawrence Technical Regional High School senior Edgar Martinez was recently selected to represent the Commonwealth as a Career and Technical Education nominee for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Greater Lawrence Tech Superintendent John Lavoie said, each year, the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program recognizes up to 161 of the country’s most exceptional students. The program was expanded to include and …

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Community Spotlight

Miniatures Fashioned from Scrap Metal Subject of Talk and Display at Nevins Memorial Library

Miniatures Fashioned from Scrap Metal Subject of Talk and Display at Nevins Memorial Library
Methuen resident Robert Megerdichian talks about his late father’s hobby of machining solid scrap metal into his interpretations of everyday objects during an in-person presentation tomorrow. The talk, “Love in Metal: Abraham Megerdichian Machined Metal Miniatures,” takes place Tuesday, Jan. 17, from 6:30-8, in the Garden Room at Nevins memorial Library 305 Broadway, Methuen. The miniatures are also on display. …

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