Massachusetts has spent decades investing in cleaning up our waterways, but we have not invested enough in maintaining and modernizing the infrastructure that keeps them clean.
Haverhill
Merrimack Health shutters Methuen maternity unit a month earlier than expected
The three-campus health system first announced its plans to shutter the obstetric unit and consolidate its maternity and neonatal services at Lawrence General Hospital, which is less than two miles away, on April 1. But on June 23, administrators informed Methuen nurses that they would cease admissions to the hospital’s maternity unit in six days.
Haverhill may scrap all at-large city council
IN LOWELL, it took a federal lawsuit to bring a recent change to the structure of city government, which advocates said locked minority groups out of representation in city hall. […]
Haverhill teachers union rejects charter renewal
AFTER MONTHS OF ACRIMONY in Haverhill, the city’s teachers union voted Thursday to block the renewal of the Silver Hill Horace Mann Charter School, dealing a crushing blow to faculty […]
