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S&P Gives Haverhill’s $10.9 Million Loan 2nd Highest Rank; Includes $8 Million Towards New School

S&P Gives Haverhill’s $10.9 Million Loan 2nd Highest Rank; Includes $8 Million Towards New School
Haverhill is keeping the financial industry’s second-best credit rating—a metric used to determine how much interest the city pays in interest—at least on its current loan which includes an $8 million piece of the upcoming Dr. Albert B. Consentino School replacement. Standard and Poor’s gave its “AA” rating to the city’s current $10.9 million borrowing package, which is financed by …

Sections: Education, Haverhill

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Second Moderna Bivalent Booster Vaccine Available Next Two Wednesdays in Haverhill

Second Moderna Bivalent Booster Vaccine Available Next Two Wednesdays in Haverhill
The second Moderna bivalent booster vaccine against COVID-19 is available for eligible residents the next two Wednesdays in Haverhill. Haverhill’s Public Health Department is having vaccine clinics Wednesday, May 17, from 2-5 p.m., and Wednesday, May 24, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Citizens Center, 10 Welcome St., Haverhill. No appointments are required. Those eligible are people over the age …

Sections: COVID-19, Haverhill

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Regional News

Jury Convicts 30-Year-Old Haverhill Man for Shooting Death of Lowell Woman on Easter in 2017

Jury Convicts 30-Year-Old Haverhill Man for Shooting Death of Lowell Woman on Easter in 2017
A Haverhill man was convicted of first-degree murder on Thursday for a shooting that took the life of a 40-year-old Lowell woman outside a Lawrence nightclub on Easter Sunday in 2017. A jury sitting in Salem Superior Court found 30-year-old Luis Rodriguez guilty of murder with deliberate premeditation, armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery by means of …

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Education

Whittier Tech Seniors Build Birdhouses for NestWatch Program

Whittier Tech Seniors Build Birdhouses for NestWatch Program
Students from Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School recently built birdhouses for the Parker River Clean Water Association NestWatch program. Superintendent Maureen Lynch says Senior carpentry students, Odelys Morel, Maria Garcia Rojas and Karlenny Garcia, all from Haverhill, built four birdhouses for the program to replace old and deteriorating nesting houses. The new birdhouses will become home to Eastern Blue …

Sections: Education, Haverhill

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Community Spotlight

Comic Con Returns Saturday to Haverhill Public Library

Comic Con Returns Saturday to Haverhill Public Library
The Haverhill Public Library’s Comic Con returns tomorrow with featured comic writers Tom Sniegoski, Jeannine Acheson, Cathy G. Johnson, Colleen AF Venable, Bones Leopard and Jennie Wood. There will also be more than 25 additional writers, artists and artisans selling their work. OneUp Games will be set up all day in the Teen Zone with several video game systems and …

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Greater Haverhill Arts Association Annual Open Art Exhibit Opens Sunday Through May 30

Greater Haverhill Arts Association Annual Open Art Exhibit Opens Sunday Through May 30
The Annual Open Art Exhibit of the Greater Haverhill Arts Association opens Sunday and runs through the end of the month. The exhibit is open to the public May 14 through 30, Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sundays, noon- 5 p.m., at Buttonwoods Museum, 240 Water St., Haverhill. There will also be a public reception and presentation of …

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  • Mass Moments: Today in Massachusetts history, 6:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.
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  • Mass Moments: Today in Massachusetts history, 6:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.
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  • 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.
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