By John Lee Grant |
5 hours ago
Haverhill City Councilor Joseph J. Bevilacqua presented this photograph as evidence of the private trash collection problem downtown. (Courtesy photograph.)
The Haverhill City Council meeting included some trash talking this past Tuesday.
City Councilor Joseph J. Bevilacqua presented a photograph he took of an overflowing dumpster downtown, using it as example of what he cited as an ongoing issue.
“This is a continual problem with dumpsters that are overflowing and in the public view where we encourage people to visit and shop and spend money and live. The other problem is that when the dumpsters are emptied, the trash that you see on the left side of the dumpster is not picked up. That’s left there, which is a public health hazard, I believe, and a safety hazard,” he said.
Haverhill City Councilor Mary Ellen Daly O’Brien. (WHAV News file photograph.)
With two public schools and a recreation area on the street, Haverhill city councilors Tuesday night resolved to find solutions to a lack of consistent sidewalks and off-street parking on Concord Street.
Councilor Mary Ellen Daly O’Brien highlighted the issue, noting she saw skaters at Round Pond this past winter parking on the low, soft curbing of the street or parking on both sides making passage difficult.
“We went from people being parked on the street, which was at times very tricky sometimes there were cars parked on both sides of the street so that it was single file going through, either up or down Concord Street, and now that we’ve moved into the spring, and we have fishing and people out and about in that area because it is a lovely place to walk, they’re parking on the sidewalk,” she explained.
By John Lee Grant |
February 26, 2021
A number of parking spaces are off limits as a chunk of concrete had to be removed from the parking deck. (WHAV News photograph.)
Although the city wants a developer to buy and demolish the downtown Haverhill parking deck, it requires emergency repairs to at least temporarily restore more than a dozen parking spaces.
Council President Melinda E. Barrett told her colleagues Tuesday she noticed a number of parking spaces at the Herbert H. Goecke Jr. Memorial Parking Deck are out of commission.
“There was a crack in the upper deck there so, subsequently, some metal plates were put down. We’ve lost maybe seven spots up top and maybe nine spots down below, behind the Pentucket Bank,” she said.
By John Lee Grant |
February 25, 2021
Crash at Li’s Fine Asian Cuisine and Sushi Bar, 1186 Main St., Haverhill. (Jarvi Productions photograph for WHAV News.)
Haverhill will look at local options such as improved signage and ask the state for help improving a Route 125 intersection where three crashes within two weeks forced the closure of a restaurant there.
Since Feb. 4, three cars have crashed through the front of Li’s Fine Asian Cuisine and Sushi Bar, with the most recent causing enough damage to force the closure of the business. City Councilor Mary Ellen Daly O’Brien, who once lived near the intersection on Main Street where the crashes occurred, said Tuesday night the increase in population at the state border has inevitably led to traffic issues.
By WHAV Staff |
Proposed entrance to Mellow Fellows, 330 Amesbury Road, Haverhill.
Mellow Fellows Vice President Charles F. Emery addressed the Haverhill City Council on Aug. 20, 2019. (WHAV News file photograph.)
When Haverhill-based Mellow Fellows opens its adult-use marijuana store late this summer, it could earn more than $1 million a month.
According to the company’s lawyer, this potential has attracted two more investors. Attorney Jim Smith told WHAV that Mellow Fellows, owned by Charles Emery, Timothy Riley and E. Phillip Brown, will receive investments from two more businesses. A principal of one of them, Arthur Becker, became the store’s landlord Friday. Smith said negotiations with a second unnamed investor are still in the works.