{"id":28355,"date":"2017-04-11T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2017\/04\/11\/necc-nominated-for-merrimack-valley-magazine-award\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:07:49","slug":"necc-nominated-for-merrimack-valley-magazine-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/04\/11\/necc-nominated-for-merrimack-valley-magazine-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Nominated for Merrimack Valley Magazine Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mvmag.net\/mvma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15574 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/04\/MVMA_Full-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a> Northern Essex Community College has been nominated for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mvmag.net\/\">Merrimack Valley Magazine<\/a> Milestone Award in the category &#8220;50 Years in Business.&#8221; This new category was added by the magazine to recognize businesses and nonprofits that have survived in a challenging economy while providing consistently excellent service to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Parties interested in voting for Northern Essex can fill out a ballot online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mvmag.net\/mvma\">mvmag.net\/mvma<\/a>. The college is listed under section 7, &#8220;Milestone Awards,&#8221; on item 46.<\/p>\n<p>NECC was established in 1961 as the fourth community college in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011. For a closer look at its history as a pillar of the Merrimack Valley area, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/celebrating-50-years-of-making-a-difference\/northern-essex-community-college-timeline\/\">timeline<\/a> on the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Essex Community College has been nominated for a Merrimack Valley Magazine Milestone Award in the category &#8220;50 Years in Business.&#8221; This new category was added by the magazine to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":28357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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