Navy Veteran and Arson Investigator, Lawrence Detective Tom Murphy ~ VALLEY PATRIOT OF THE MONTH, HERO IN OUR MIDST

Navy Veteran and Arson Investigator, Lawrence Detective Tom Murphy ~ VALLEY PATRIOT OF THE MONTH, HERO IN OUR MIDST

By: John Cuddy  – Feb, 2021 This is our third US Navy Seabee, who after serving in the Navy, became a police officer. Tom Murphy Jr. is a retired Lawrence Police Officer, who later retired from the Merrimack College Police Department as well. He grew up across the street from my father Jim, and my […]

State lawmakers and Advocacy Groups Call on Insurance Companies to Deliver on Protection Promises to Small Businesses

State lawmakers and Advocacy Groups Call on Insurance Companies to Deliver on Protection Promises to Small Businesses

Bill would compel insurance companies to honor business interruption insurance claims filed during the pandemic Boston – Working with local advocacy groups, State Senator Diana DiZoglio (First Essex) and State Representative Dylan Fernandes (Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket) filed legislation in both the Senate and the House last week that would provide another much-needed lifeline to small […]

Templeton Planning Board Member Charles Carroll pays $1,500 Civil Penalty for Violating Conflict of Interest Law 

Templeton Planning Board Member Charles Carroll pays $1,500 Civil Penalty for Violating Conflict of Interest Law 

Carroll participated as a Planning Board member in matters affecting his father’s property The State Ethics Commission has issued a Final Order approving a Disposition Agreement in which Templeton Planning Board member Charles Carroll admits to violating the conflict of interest law by participating in Planning Board decisions related to proposals to rezone an area […]

2017 Lawrence High Grad Earns Oprah Winfrey Scholarship

2017 Lawrence High Grad Earns Oprah Winfrey Scholarship

Jeurys Santiago is a 2020 NECC Grad Feb. 2021 Television talk show host and author Oprah Winfrey is helping Jeurys Santiago, a 2020 Northern Essex Community College Business Transfer graduate, to continue his studies at UMass Lowell. Santiago, a 2017 Lawrence High School graduate, was awarded the Oprah Winfrey Scholarship, which will provide him with […]

Taking Care of Our Mental Health During COVID-19 ~ IN YOUR CORNER WITH SENATOR DIZOGLIO

Taking Care of Our Mental Health During COVID-19 ~ IN YOUR CORNER WITH SENATOR DIZOGLIO

Feb. 2021 Hello Valley Patriot Readers, Beyond the physical and financial anxiety that countless of us have felt since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have also experienced feelings of loneliness and isolation. While many of us have gone through life without the internet and mobile devices in the past, we haven’t gone through […]

Governor Baker Must Fire David Ismay Immediately ~ VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL, FEB. 2021

Governor Baker Must Fire David Ismay Immediately ~ VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL, FEB. 2021

David Ismay, Governor Baker’s Undersecretary for Climate Change, told a group of Vermont climate extremists that in order for Massachusetts residents to lower carbon emissions the state needs to “break their will” and “turn the screws on” ordinary people. No public servant should be approaching public policy with this kind of attitude. The video of […]

Darwyn Joseph (24) of Lawrence, and Ramon Joseph Cruz, Jr., (24) of Methuen Indicted on Fraud Charges Involving SBA Disaster Funds

Darwyn Joseph (24) of Lawrence, and Ramon Joseph Cruz, Jr., (24) of Methuen Indicted on Fraud Charges Involving SBA Disaster Funds

BOSTON – A Lawrence man and a Methuen man were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in connection with a scheme involving the use of stolen identities to fraudulently obtain Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the Small Business Administration (SBA) and to launder the funds.   Darwyn Joseph, 24, of Lawrence, and Ramon Joseph […]

Former Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera Endorses Vilma Martínez-Domínguez for Mayor

Former Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera Endorses Vilma Martínez-Domínguez for Mayor

Vilma Martinez-Dominguez’s campaign for Mayor announced that former Mayor Dan Rivera has endorsed her campaign “I’ve known Vilma for years, first as an advocate for our most vulnerable families, and now as a public servant for our city,” Said Rivera. “She will be a fighter for all of Lawrence, and I’m proud to endorse her […]

Senator Warren Raises Concerns About Whether Robinhood Is Treating Customers “Honestly and Fairly”

Senator Warren Raises Concerns About Whether Robinhood Is Treating Customers “Honestly and Fairly”

“The public deserves to know the details of circumstance behind Robinhood’s decision to restrict trading and about other actions that appear to be treating individual investors in an unequal or unfair fashion.” “I am also troubled by Robinhood’s inclusion of forced arbitration clauses in its customer agreement, which suggests that investors will not have sufficient […]

Dracut Construction Business Owner, James P. Enwright, (53) Charged with $1 Million Tax Fraud

Dracut Construction Business Owner, James P. Enwright, (53) Charged with $1 Million Tax Fraud

BOSTON – The owner of a commercial and residential construction business in Dracut was charged on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 with an income diversion and payroll tax scheme resulting in a tax loss that exceeded $1 million. James P. Enwright, 53, was charged and has agreed to plead guilty to one count of tax evasion […]