NECC Observer

The student news website of Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill and Lawrence, Mass.


Movie Review: Deadpool

By        March 29, 2016 ★★½ (out of four stars) I have to be honest: sometimes being a critic makes me feel like a curmudgeon. Sitting in the movie theater watching “Deadpool,” I must have laughed out...
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Single mom follows her dreams to NECC Deaf Studies program

By        March 29, 2016 Taryn Decker is a Deaf Studies major in her second semester at NECC. She is 30 years old and a single mom, taking five classes and working part time. She somehow manages to...
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New softball coach has high expectations

By        March 29, 2016 The softball team is going into their third season and they have a new head coach. Kendra Hobbs has taken over for former Head Coach Robert Gillespie. Hobbs has been an assistant...
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Volleyball returns to NECC

By        March 29, 2016 After a three-year hiatus, women’s volleyball is back at NECC. New Head Coach Monica Reum was just hired recently. She is a Merrimack College student doing her fellowship at...
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Beyond the box score: Matt Marquez

By        March 29, 2016 Matt Marquez will be one of the newest members of the NECC Knights baseball team this year as they look to make it their fifth consecutive season with a trip to the NJCAA World...
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Beyond the Box Score: Robert Barry

By        March 29, 2016 Robert Barry will try to help the NECC Knights Baseball team make it to their fifth consecutive NJCAA World Series appearance this spring. Last year’s team finished with a record...
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Do-It-Yourself Spa Day!

By        March 29, 2016 With today’s abundance of beauty treatment centers, it’s hard to believe that people used to polish their own fingernails and tweeze each other’s eyebrows in the kitchen....
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