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Haverhill News

Haverhill City Council Asks for Local and State Suggestions for Route 125 Restaurant Crash Site

Haverhill City Council Asks for Local and State Suggestions for Route 125 Restaurant Crash Site
Haverhill will look at local options such as improved signage and ask the state for help improving a Route 125 intersection where three crashes within two weeks forced the closure of a restaurant there. Since Feb. 4, three cars have crashed through the front of Li’s Fine Asian Cuisine and Sushi Bar, with the most recent causing enough damage to …

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Council Approves Spending $60,000 on State-Required Haverhill High School Roof Plan

Council Approves Spending $60,000 on State-Required Haverhill High School Roof Plan
The Haverhill City Council on Tuesday approved spending $60,000 to pay for a feasibility study and design for a partial roof replacement project at Haverhill High School. The study and schematic design are required by the Massachusetts School Building Authority as part of a possible state Accelerated Repair Program grant. During the Schematic Design Study phase, the MSBA will work …

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Haverhill, Methuen, Lawrence Share in $4.7 Million State Effort to Vaccinate Hard-to-Reach Residents

Haverhill, Methuen, Lawrence Share in $4.7 Million State Effort to Vaccinate Hard-to-Reach Residents
Gov. Charlie Baker is putting $4.7 million into a program to help vaccinate residents in Haverhill, Methuen and Lawrence and 17 other communities that are described as “disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.” The effort aims to reduce barriers to vaccination in the 20 hardest-hit communities in the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth will work with Archipelago Strategies Group and Health Care for …

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VA Bedford Opens COVID-19 Vaccinations to All Veterans Regardless of Age Starting Today

VA Bedford Opens COVID-19 Vaccinations to All Veterans Regardless of Age Starting Today
VA Bedford Healthcare System is opening COVID-19 vaccinations to all veterans enrolled in VA healthcare, regardless of age, starting today. Enrolled veterans and designated caregivers may receive the vaccine by making appointments by calling 781-687-4000 weekdays. Appointments are available daily, including weekends, from 7 a.m.-4:45 p.m. VA is administering the Pfizer vaccine in the auditorium of Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial …

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Leger-Ferraro Delivers Advice During Merrimack Valley Chamber’s Women in Business Program

Leger-Ferraro Delivers Advice During Merrimack Valley Chamber’s Women in Business Program
Susan Leger Ferraro offers “Advice for Women in Business” when the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce presents its online Women in Business Program. Humanitarian and CEO of Imajine That, G3, Inspirational Ones, and Peace Love & Happiness Real, Leger discusses balancing work and family life during the program Wednesday, March 3, between noon and 1 p.m. The webinar is open …

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Regional News

Investigators Say Cause of Corpus Christi Parish Rectory Fire Monday was Electrical Related

Investigators Say Cause of Corpus Christi Parish Rectory Fire Monday was Electrical Related
The four-alarm fire that caused $1.5 million in damage at  Corpus Christi Parish Rectory Monday in Lawrence was electrical related. In a statement, Lawrence Mayor Kendrys Vasquez, Fire Chief Brian F. Moriarty, Police Chief Roy P. Vasque and State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey said Wednesday the fire started in a void in the first-floor ceiling and the only heat …

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Community Spotlight

Buttonwoods Museum Offers Two New Puzzle Designs Featuring Haverhill and Women’s Suffrage

Buttonwoods Museum Offers Two New Puzzle Designs Featuring Haverhill and Women’s Suffrage
Haverhill’s Buttonwoods Museum is taking advance orders for two new puzzle designs. Of the two new designs, one features Haverhill images from the Buttonwoods Museum and the other depicts the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Each design is 16 by 20 inches and contain 504 pieces. Puzzles are $25 each and expected to arrive soon. The museum is selling them at buttonwoods.org …

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Radio Listings

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. Guest: David Kowalski of the Labor Guild.
  • 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: 7 p.m., Live.
  • Our Miss Brooks: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.

Friday’s Radio Highlights

  • WIN for Breakfast: Local news, weather, traffic, sports and information. Win Damon is light, lively and local, 6-9 a.m.
  • 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.
  • DJ Chris on the Radio: Live, 6:10 p.m.
  • Couple Next Door: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
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