WOODSVILLE—The town’s assessor says the value of Haverhill’s grand list grew 16% in the last five years.
Tim Northcott of M&N Assessing told selectboard members on Aug. 30 that the schedule of property in town increased from $400,410,353 to $464,347,792 under the most recent revaluation conducted earlier this year.
Northcott said the revaluation examined all market sales that took place between April 2019 and April 2021.

NORTH HAVERHILL—For the third time in the last three months, the Haverhill Cooperative School Board decided against requiring students to wear masks at the start of the 2021-2022 school year.
Holding a special meeting on Aug. 26 to solicit public input on reopening plans, board members narrowly rejected a proposal to impose a student mask mandate for the first month of school when the six board members attending the session deadlocked 3-3 on the motion. They also declined to require facial coverings for staff members while empowering the superintendent to change the schedule, require masks, or make other pandemic-related adjustments on an emergency interim basis.

WOODSVILLE—After two previous votes to spend federal coronavirus relief funds on a plan proposed by the town’s precincts, the Haverhill Selectboard reversed course on Monday night.
The board voted 3-2 to reconsider its motion approved two weeks ago following a two-hour public hearing that was attended by dozens of people. It then voted 3-2 to retain the funds for a plan as proposed by Haverhill Town Manager Brigitte Codling.

NORTH HAVERHILL—Grafton County will partner with EX2, a communications and infrastructure company based in Nebraska, to bring broadband internet to all of the county’s towns.
The county’s broadband committee, along with EX2, have settled on a plan that will deliver broadband to the center of each Grafton County town, with each town ensuring that all of its residents have high-speed internet access.

BRADFORD—The Community Visit taking place in Bradford in collaboration with the Vermont Council on Rural Development entered its next phase on Monday evening.
Approximately 60 people gathered underneath a tent in Elizabeth’s Park as part of the Moving Forward Together Bradford initiative. The meeting on Aug. 23 came after a series of theme-based forums were held last month at the Bradford Academy, Grace United Methodist Church, the Hub, and online. Additionally, surveys were circulated online and in print in several locations in town.