FOURTEEN SPRINGFIELD POLICE OFFICERS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH ASSAULT NEAR BAR AND COVER UP AFTERWARDS

FOURTEEN SPRINGFIELD POLICE OFFICERS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH ASSAULT NEAR BAR AND COVER UP AFTERWARDS

Officers Indicted on Various Charges Including Assault, Perjury, Misleading, and Conspiracy; Bar Owner and Bar Manager also Charged WORCESTER — Thirteen Springfield Police Department officers and one former officer have been indicted on various charges in connection with an assault on four victims and an attempt to cover up the details of the assault afterwards, Attorney General […]

Methuen Police Arrest Two After Fight in Apartment Building NEMLEC SWAT Team Assists

Methuen Police Arrest Two After Fight in Apartment Building NEMLEC SWAT Team Assists

The Methuen Police Department reports that with the assistance of a regional SWAT team, they arrested two men and recovered an illegal firearm and Fentanyl after a fight and disturbance broke out at an apartment building late Thursday evening. As a result of diligent work by Methuen Police officers and their mutual aid partners, GERMAN […]

Audit Highlights Need for Improved Access to Opioid Counseling and Expanded Prescriber Training

Audit Highlights Need for Improved Access to Opioid Counseling and Expanded Prescriber Training

Report focuses on patients who were prescribed buprenorphine as part of their medication-assisted treatment Boston, MA – Citing the Commonwealth’s ongoing opioid epidemic, State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump is calling on MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program, to take steps to expand access to counseling for individuals receiving medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and […]

Meet the New Restaurant Pop Up in Lawrence

Meet the New Restaurant Pop Up in Lawrence

We are getting ready to welcome a new food entrepreneur into our business incubator, the Revolving Test Kitchen (RTK). RTK is a collaboration between Lupoli Companies, the city of Lawrence, The Lawrence Partnership, Northern Essex Community College (NECC) and EParaTodos/EforAll. “The Revolving Test Kitchen was created to provide food entrepreneurs with a special opportunity to […]

Methuen’s Airman 1st Class Travis W. Hirst Completes Basic Training with the Air Force

Methuen’s Airman 1st Class Travis W. Hirst Completes Basic Training with the Air Force

Congratulations are in order for Airman First Class, Travis W. Hirst, of Methuen MA, for his successful completion and graduation of Basic Military Training with the United States Air Force, achieved on February 7th, 2019. A1C Hirst trained with Flight 157 of the 323rd Training Squadron, at JBSA Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, […]

My Goal for Local Community Development & Business ~ IN YOUR CORNER WITH SENATOR DIZOGLIO

My Goal for Local Community Development & Business ~ IN YOUR CORNER WITH SENATOR DIZOGLIO

Dear Valley Patriot Readers, Think for a moment of the last local business you visited. Maybe you stopped by the corner store to pick up milk, went to your local pizzeria for dinner, or picked up a new snow shovel before the last snowstorm at the Mom & Pop hardware shop. Whatever it was, your […]

Lawrence Resident Receives Award at Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival

Lawrence Resident Receives Award at Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival

Ten Salem State students receive awards in every category entered in regional competition, five will move on to national competition in Washington, DC     SALEM, MA –Chris Vega, of Lawrence, was named the Region 1 finalist for the National Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in an annual theatre competition sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center […]

Mayor Rivera Takes a Page from Lantigua Playbook ~ VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL (03/19)

Mayor Rivera Takes a Page from Lantigua Playbook ~ VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL (03/19)

03-19 When former Lawrence Mayor Willie Lantigua first took the corner office at Lawrence City Hall he fired a number of department heads whom he believed had campaigned against him. He wasn’t firing them for doing a bad job or committing a crime; it was all politics. Lantigua did not want anyone in his administration […]

Methuen Police Arrest and Charge Man with Kidnapping Attempt in Grocery Store Parking Lot

Methuen Police Arrest and Charge Man with Kidnapping Attempt in Grocery Store Parking Lot

The Methuen Police Department has arrested and charged a man after he attempted to force his way into a woman’s car and kidnap her Friday night. RAFAEL ROSARIO, AGE 53, OF LAWRENCE was charged with: • Strangulation • Attempted Kidnapping • Attempted Carjacking • Assault and Battery At approximately 7:50 p.m. Friday, Methuen Police were […]

Methuen Police Superior Officers Union Files Class Action Wage Grievance Against City

Methuen Police Superior Officers Union Files Class Action Wage Grievance Against City

Class Action Grievance.NEPBA Local 17 The Methuen Superior Officers Union has filed a wage violation grievance against the city saying that; “The City of Methuen has, on an ongoing and continuous  basis, and in an arbitrary manner violated the provisions of the parties’ CBA (contract) in effect from July 1, 2017 through June 20, 2020 as […]

POWERBALL JACKPOT AT $381 MILLION FOR WEDNESDAY’S DRAWING

POWERBALL JACKPOT AT $381 MILLION FOR WEDNESDAY’S DRAWING

Largest Powerball jackpot since October 27 DORCHESTER, MA (MARCH 5, 2019) – The Powerball jackpot for the Wednesday, March 6 drawing is an estimated $381 million. The cash option on the prize is an estimated $228.1 million. Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing will be the 20th since the jackpot was last hit December 26, when a […]