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Rendering of proposed six-story, 18-unit building at 15 Middlesex St., Bradford.
The public has opportunities to shape policy this week as various Haverhill boards meet. In the interest of transparency in government, WHAV provides this list of upcoming meetings every week.
Plans for a six-story, 18-unit building on the site of the former Arthur Sharp Hardware goes before the Haverhill City Council tonight for review and approval of three waivers.
Attorney Michael J. Migliori, representing developer Alan Sfeir, described the riverfront proposal in a letter to councilors as a “vibrant redevelopment” of the roughly quarter-acre site. In its application, the developer says three waivers are needed allowing 18 units where five are required, 18 parking spaces where 27 are required and a height of 91 feet where 55 is the maximum allowed.
BOSTON The fierce monuments honor an English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American captors after the gruesome killing of her baby.But the statues to Hannah Duston one in Massachusetts where she grips a hatchet and another in.
Haverhill’s paid parking program resumes Monday with new rates, uniform hours, optional pay-by-phone and pay-by-license plate instead of space number. As WHAV first reported in December, the Haverhill City Council approved Mayor James J. Fiorentini’s request to raise fees from 50 cents to $1 per hour. The mayor, however, clarified Thursday charges now take place […]
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Statues in Massachusetts and New Hampshire honoring an English colonist who took a hatchet to her Native American captors after the death of her baby are being reconsidered.
Historians and Native Americans argue many of Hannah Duston s victims weren t Indigenous warriors, but children.
They say the 17th-century tale was used by European colonists to justify eradicating New England s Indigenous population. In Massachusetts, the Haverhill City Council has voted to remove the hatchet that Duston fiercely wields in the city s statue.
In New Hampshire, an advisory committee is weighing changes to a similar memorial at the alleged site of Duston s bloody revenge.
BOSTON (AP) â The fierce monuments honor an English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American captors after the gruesome killing of her baby.
But the statues to Hannah Duston â one in Massachusetts where she grips a hatchet and another in New Hampshire where she clutches a bundle of scalps â are being reconsidered amid the nationwide reckoning on racism and controversial public monuments.
Historians, Native Americans and even some of Duston’s descendants argue that many of the details of the 17th-century story are lost in the telling, such as the fact that many of the victims weren’t even Indigenous warriors, but children.