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By Win Damon |
Haverhill High School graduation in 2018. (WHAV News file photograph.)
Haverhill High School holds one of its largest graduation ceremonies ever tonight at Trinity Haverhill Stadium.
The in-person event, which begins at 6 p.m., still faces COVID-19 restrictions. Superintendent Margaret Marotta said each student is allowed to have up to six guests, and they must pre-register. In addition, there will be social distancing between groups, to the extent possible, and masks are preferred.
“I’d just like to say how proud we are of our seniors for what they have done. We have so many kids that have graduated. We’ve actually got not only Haverhill High School graduates, Greenleaf Academy, which is one of our smaller schools, is graduating a group of kids. Gateway Academy, which is our alternative high school, this will be their first graduating class, and they will be graduating eight of their 10 seniors, which is really great for an alternative high school. I’m ju