Haverhill News

For ballet dancers, the Christmas season doesn't begin with the first snowfall or the frantic shopping of Black Friday.

These programs will be shown on TV22, Haverhill Community Television, from Nov. 20 to 26.

The owner of Megahertz Computer Store on South Main Street told police someone broke into the store sometime between 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.

Before Santa arrives in his red suit and black boots, six of the 14 giant Soles of Haverhill shoes that were on display throughout the city this summer will strut once more as part of this Sunday's 45th annual VFW Santa Parade.

If you're a kid who loves getting his fingers into pies, the Haverhill YMCA at 81 Winter St.

The serial rapist accused of trying to rape a jogger on Plum Island in September pleaded not guilty at his arraignment yesterday in Salem Superior Court.

Haverhill High School senior Jim Murphy has a strong message for those who don't take Veterans Day seriously.

The sweet sounds of band music will begin wafting through the city's middle schools again in January.

City Councilor David Hall said morale among the city's firefighters was already poor, but the installation of GPS devices in firetrucks has made the situation worse.

The Police Department will support a request from the owner of George's at the Vault to reserve two parking spaces in front of the Washington Street restaurant for valet service, City Councilor David Hall said.

From a threatening 80-pound chunk of loose concrete above a doorway to stairwells loaded with trash and filth, the city's downtown parking garage has been a focus for critics of Mayor James Fiorentini.

State Trooper Anthony A. Alestock of Haverhill has received the Massachusetts State Police Medal of Lifesaving.

The friends of 18-year-old Channing Cooke were on edge last night as they awaited news of the Haverhill dancer's fate on the hit Fox reality show, "So You Think You Can Dance." "I feel sick to my stomach," said Karla Pattavina, owner of Cooke's dance school, Karla Pattavina's Dance Academy, earlier in the day.

Onix Figueroa, 34, of 80 4th St., Lowell, was arrested at 1:50 a.m. on River Street and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence, open container, marked lanes violation.

Early morning voter turnout in Haverhill was particularly strong at some of Haverhill's polling locations, including Ward 2 Precinct 2 at the Hunking Middle School where Warden Jim Macdonald counted 145 votes cast by 10:30 a.m. "This is as much as we had for the whole preliminary election," Macdonald said, referring to Sept.

A four-month-old girl is being treated at New England Medical Center in Boston this morning after she was assaulted by her teenage father, according to the District Attorney's office.

Merrimack Valley Hospital is joining five other Massachusetts health care facilities in threatening a lawsuit to force the state to pay them more money.

Haverhill Mayor James Fiorentini's six years in office have not been perfect. But no administration is perfect, and Fiorentini's performance during difficult times has made him well worthy of re-election. During the worst recession in more than a generation, faced with declining tax revenues and deep cuts in state aid, he has maintained essential ...

It all started with the city's Highway Department scandal. Haverhill installed GPS devices in the department's trucks when longtime Highway Superintendent James Flaherty and his son Kevin, an official in the department, were charged with using their positions for personal gain.

When Assistant City Clerk Rick Barber was predicting the voter turnout on election eve he settled on 25 percent.