New Owners of Historic Club Restore Image and Neighborhood By: Valley Patriot Staff – September, 2012 The Valley Patriot had the opportunity to sit down with the owners, Tony Fiore and Michael Pelletier, of the newly renovated Ward 6 Club earlier this month. Tony shared the colorful history of this private club which […]
The 1st in an ongoing series on the Caswell Hotel By: Catherine Vanarnum – September, 2012 Imagine a thief who is able steal without sneaking, in broad daylight. “I need it,” he says, and walks off with property that was earned by another, belongs to another. In America, you couldn’t get away with that – […]
Newburyport, MA, – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. once said “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” The Firehouse Center for the Arts has had a pretty impressive dance card the last few years when it comes to theater offerings. Since the Firehouse’s inception twenty years ago the mission of the Firehouse has always […]
By: Emily Lacouture – September, 2011 Everyone’s heard of this new boy band One Direction right? Well, this is just a little article to give a little more information about these five singing pop stars. The five –Harry Styles(18), Niall Horan(18), Liam Payne(19), Zayn Malik(19), and Louis(pronounced Lou-ee) Tomlinson- auditioned for the 2010 X-Factor in […]
By: Lonnie Brennan – September, 2012 Local businessman Lenny Mirra rocked the newly organized 2nd Essex district topping the ticket in his attempt to bring balance to a lopsided, out-of-control state legislature. Newbury, West Newbury, Haverhill, Georgetown, Boxford, Groveland, and Merrimac are now perched to be ‘the’ battleground district in the northeast for an […]
Says Deval Patrick Should Have No Hesitation in Appealing Court Ruling “This is an insult to the taxpayers of Massachusetts,” said Representative Jim Lyons of Andover. He represents neighborhoods in Dracut, Andover, North Andover and Tewksbury. Lyons was referring to the federal court decision that forces state taxpayers to fund the sex change of a […]
Senator Scott Brown Says Warren “Desperate” Talks About Medicare, Social Security, Budget PHOTO GALLERY FROM EVENT By Tom Duggan, August, 2012 “Desperate” United States Senator Scott Brown said his opponent Elizabeth Warren was “desperate” Monday during a visit to the North Andover Senior Center where he spoke for about thirty minutes on Medicare, taxes, […]
Today Tom Duggan interviewed Jen Cooper of the Lawrence School Committee who resigned this week and moved out of Lawrence saying that the Lawrence Public Schools because of the shenanigans of the State Department of Education and Receiver Riley. Tom also played debate clips from the State Senate debate this week sponsored by the Valley […]
After a year of demanding public documents and information about how Deval Patrick and his Department of Education is planning to turn around the Lawrence Public Schools with zero results, one member of the Lawrence School Committee has chosen to take her children out of the Lawrence School System and has resigned from the school […]
Last month the Merrimack Valley Jewish Federation held a Jewish Film Festival at Osgood Landing in North Andover, attracting more than 150 people from around the area. The film festival’s feature presentation “Follow Me, The “Yoni” Netanyahu Story,” left many in attendance with tears in their eyes as they left the theater at Osgood Landing. Yoni Netanyahu was the […]
Valley Patriot, WCAP Debate for State Senate By: Tom Duggan – August, 2012 Last month the Valley Patriot and 980WCAP held an on air radio debate between the two Andover candidates, Alex Vispoli and Paul Adams, who are vying for the Republican nomination for State Senate. The winner of the September 6th state primaries will […]
Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith Spar Over Who Should be Governor By: Tom Duggan, August, 2012 Last month republican candidates for Governor of New Hampshire, Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith, sparred over who was “more republican” and their different set of priorities for their state. The debate was sponsored in part by The Valley Patriot […]
By: Eva Montibello For more than a decade several pieces of child protection legislation have been in front of Massachusetts’s leadership, typically dying in the Judiciary Committee. Finally, many pieces of legislation are progressing through the process with help from Merrimack Valley advocates Laurie Myers, Founder and President of VOICES, Joseph DiPietro, Founder and President […]
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL August – 2012 The Valley Patriot submitted document requests to the City of Lawrence under the Massachusetts Public Records Law on February 22, 2012. The documents we requested are public documents that must be turned over within ten days by law. Yet, as of the date we published this edition, (August […]
Police Chief Joe Solomon Talks of Drugs, Politics and all those Lawsuits By: Tom Duggan, August 8, 2012 Methuen Police Chief, Joe Solomon, appeared on 980AM WCAP’s Paying Attention! Radio Program with Tom Duggan last month where he revealed details about Methuen’s increasing crime problems, his recent court battles with the city, and the direction […]