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Catch the Wave at 97.9 WHAV ♦ May 11, 2021
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Haverhill News

AG Healey and Sen. DiZoglio Hear What Haverhill Businesses Say Most Threaten Them After Pandemic

AG Healey and Sen. DiZoglio Hear What Haverhill Businesses Say Most Threaten Them After Pandemic
Haverhill businesses that survived the pandemic say they’re not sure they’ll survive the recovery unless government changes its approach. Business owners told state Attorney General Maura Healey and Sen Diana DiZoglio Monday the biggest problems they face are a shortage of employees, interruptions in receiving goods and rules that keep them from getting government relief. Krueger Flatbreads owner Jason Petrou …

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Five Developers Offer Proposals for Redeveloping Prime Downtown Haverhill Parcels

Five Developers Offer Proposals for Redeveloping Prime Downtown Haverhill Parcels
Haverhill has received five proposals to redevelop some or all of the land around, and including, the Herbert H. Goecke Jr. Memorial Parking Deck, downtown. Developers had until April 28 to submit proposals to reuse up to five parcels of city-owned land, totaling 4.5 acres, land between Merrimack Street, Main Street and Bailey Boulevard. It is the first time developers …

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Two Haverhill Firefighters Graduate from Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s Recruit Training

Two Haverhill Firefighters Graduate from Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s Recruit Training
Two Haverhill firefighters were among 16 graduates from seven fire departments to graduate Friday from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s 50-day Career Recruit Firefighting Training Program. Charles Damp and Michael Foustoukos trained at the Stow campus. Besides Haverhill, other departments represented in the class were Acton, Lynnfield, Malden, Plymouth, Watertown and Westborough. “This rigorous professional training provides our newest firefighters with …

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Haverhill Chamber to Honor Glenn, Guerrero-Perez, Heartquist and Guyotte at Annual Dinner

Haverhill Chamber to Honor Glenn, Guerrero-Perez, Heartquist and Guyotte at Annual Dinner
Public and private sector leaders are to be honored when the Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce hosts its “Celebrating Our Community” annual dinner next month. Northern Essex Community College President Lane A. Glenn is to be presented the Chamber’s top honor, the Charles E. Billups Award. Billups was former chairman of Essex County Gas Co. (now part of National Grid) …

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Community Spotlight

Haverhill VFW Plans Free Pasta Night for Veterans and Their Families May 22

Haverhill VFW Plans Free Pasta Night for Veterans and Their Families May 22
Veterans and their families in Haverhill are being treated to a free Pasta Night courtesy of Haverhill’s Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lorraine Post 29 as part of Military Appreciation Month. Pasta, being served with Maria’s Family Restaurant’s house tomato sauce, will be delivered to veterans Saturday, May 22, between 2 and 4 p.m. “May is Military Appreciation Month, and beyond …

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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: Shawn Watkins, incoming VFW Post 29 Commander, and Boys and Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Executive Director Javier Bristol.
  • 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.
  • Lights Out: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.

Wednesday’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: UMass Lowell Professor Timothy Ford.
  • 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.
  • Great Gildersleeve: 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
97.9 WHAV FM Wavelengths is sponsored by the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce
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