A Haverhill pharmacy is among the first allowed to vaccinate eligible residents as part of the COVID-19 Centers for Disease Control Pharmacy Partnership announced yesterday. Residents, including health care workers and first responders, who are eligible to receive a vaccine in Gov. Charlie Baker’s first phase will be able to schedule appointments online this week […]
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Haverhill continues its free COVID-19 testing program for residents tomorrow.
Tests take place by appointment Thursday, Jan. 21, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at AmVets Post 147, 576 Primrose St., Haverhill. Mayor James J. Fiorentini retained AFC Urgent Care of Methuen, to administer the tests. Insurance is not required as the cost is being covered by the City of Haverhill with federal CARES Act money.
Temporary southbound I-495 crossover lane. (Courtesy photograph.)
The exit 49 on-ramp to I-495 south will be closed during the early hours of Thursday to allow for deliveries of reinforcing steel for the new southbound bridge.
There will also be double right lane closures on I-495 south between exits 49 and 48 Thursday, Jan. 21, from 2-5 a.m. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said lanes will be closed to allow for installation of the steel.
When the on-ramp near Westgate Center closes, traffic will be detoured to exit 50, Broadway, Route 97.
The schedule is weather dependent and subject to change.
Following completion of the northbound bridge last October, traffic in both directions along the highway was rerouted. Southbound traffic now crosses the median and shares the northbound bridge, while demolition of the remaining 1960s-era bridge over the Merrimack River takes place.
More single-family homes were sold last year in Massachusetts than in any other year since 2004, despite a once-in-a-century pandemic that threatened the financial security of thousands of residents and dramatically changed the process of buying and selling a home. There were 61,469 single-family home sales in 2020 a 3.9% increase over the sales total of […]
A driver has been cited in the hit-and-run death of a 59-year-old Haverhill man nearly two years ago. Charles O. “Chucky” Burrill Jr. was killed Jan. 25, 2019 when he was struck while on a Main Street crosswalk near White’s Corner in Haverhill. However, as late as last year, officials said the crash remained under […]