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Catch the Wave at 97.9 WHAV ♦ June 24, 2021
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Thank you to WHAV members and sponsors for sharing the belief that everyone benefits when local news is shared far and wide.
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Full 97.9 WHAV Local News is available to everyone, every day on-air at 97.9 FM or freely online at WHAV.net.
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WHAV’s fiscal year ends next Wednesday, June 30, and your help is needed to keep original, timely and comprehensive local news coming. If you are not already a member, please support Greater Haverhill’s only public radio station and nonprofit local news service by becoming a WHAV member at any level by clicking here.
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Updated: 51-Year-Old Haverhill Man May Have Held Firearm During Armed Robbery at Cannabis Store
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Haverhill Police confirm the 51-year-old man arrested for armed robbery at a River Street cannabis store used what appeared to be a firearm Wednesday, but there were no injuries. As WHAV reported earlier, police quickly tracked down and arrested Tony Hernandez of Haverhill at 2:30 p.m.—about two hours after the robbery at CNA Stores, 558 River St., Haverhill. Police said …
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Whitten Becomes Executive Director of Merrimack Valley Planning Commission
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A veteran of the Haverhill-based Merrimack Valley Planning Commission has been named the organization’s executive director. Jerrard Whitten, who most recently served as the quasi-public agency’s GIS and Information Technology program manager, succeeds Theresa Park who was named deputy director and senior executive vice president of MassDevelopment. Merrimack Valley Planning Commission Chairman Robert Snow of Rowley said Whitten “brings considerable …
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Haverhill Promise Presents Free Literacy Events Fridays at Summer Meal Sites
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Haverhill Promise, the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, is partnering with Haverhill Public Schools and a number of community organizations to present a 10-week series of free family literacy events at summer meal sites. “Literacy Lunches” take place every Friday at noon, from June 25 through Aug. 27. Three Literacy Lunches will run simultaneously at the summer meal sites Albert …
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Haverhill Native and Poet Comeau Asks Essential Workers of the Pandemic What They are Thinking Now
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Editor’s Note: Haverhill native Raymond F. Comeau takes time with his current poem, “We’re Thinking Justice,” to call attention to the essential workers of the pandemic. Comeau previously reflected on phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in two poems published by WHAV, “Poem For A Pandemic” and “Waiting For A Cure.” Now of Belmont, Comeau is a retired dean and current …
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‘Celebrity CEO’ Author Ramon Ray Offers Free ‘Power Branding’ Webinar for SCORE
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Personal and business branding expert Ramon Ray, author of “Celebrity CEO,” offers a free SCORE webinar Thursday, July 1. Ray shares his key strategies during the talk, “Power Branding: Getting and Keeping Your Next Customer.” Attendees will learn that branding is more than logos and color. It’s also about “wowing” customers and other easy-to-implement tips to grow businesses. Ray is …
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In Light of Surplus, Gov. Baker Proposes Sales Tax Holiday for Both August and September
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With Massachusetts on track to end the year with a multi-billion dollar surplus, Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday proposed a two-month sales tax holiday that would give consumers a break from the state’s 6.25% sales tax in August and September in an effort to drive shoppers to local businesses. The major tax relief proposal would cost the state an estimated …
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‘Spooktacular Paranormal Walk’ Saturday to Benefit Asperger Works
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The Essex County Ghost Project is having a “Spooktacular Paranormal Walk” this Saturday night to benefit Asperger Works of Haverhill. The tour of, what is being called one of the “most haunted cemeteries in New England,” Hilldale Cemetery, begins with a meet and greet at 7 p.m., followed by a ghost hunt at 8, at 331 Hilldale Ave., Haverhill. Admission …
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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: Deborah Chiaravalloti, Holy Family Hospital.
- 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.
- 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. Guests: Rep. Linda Dean Campell and Annmary Connor, Greater Lawrence Community Action Council.
- 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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97.9 WHAV FM Wavelengths is sponsored by the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce
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Before You Go…
If you believe, as WHAV does, that an informed public makes for better neighbors, employees, volunteers, customers, leaders, voters and citizens, we have a small favor to ask.
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Unlike others, WHAV makes its journalism available to all. If you’re not already a donor or member, WHAV needs your ongoing support to do its job. The news media is hurting with thousands of outlets closing across the country. Local news has suffered the most. While we may not always agree on what event should or should not have been covered, WHAV’s philosophy is to err on the side of disclosure. If you share a belief in these principles, help WHAV to continue being Greater Haverhill’s most trusted, reliable and thought-provoking source of news—whether on-air, online, over cable television or in social media.
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