For 10 days in September, Mark Steel thought there was a chance he might not have cancer. He was waiting for biopsy results on a lump in his neck. He’d been told they would come through in a few days; doctor friends assured him that if this was serious, he’d hear quickly. The days passed – a week turned to two. “Every day that went by without me hearing the results I thought oh that’s a good sign because if it was bad I’d have heard by now,” he says. “What I didn’t account for was that they’d lo
HAVERHILL — Students in a Haverhill YMCA after-school program are growing their own vegetables and herbs. Only they aren’t doing it on a plot of land, but instead hydroponically inside
(Additional photographs below.) The first YMCA Freight Farm in the country was formally inaugurated Wednesday at Haverhill’s Gateway Academy. The 40 by 8-foot shipping container, adorned in bright colors with the message “The Y Feeds Kids” on the side, is a collaboration between the Haverhill Y and Haverhill Public Schools. Inside the hydroponic farm, behind […]
HAVERHILL — Students in a Haverhill YMCA after-school program are growing their own vegetables and herbs. Only they aren t doing it on a plot of land, but instead hydroponically inside