Heroes In Our Midst ~ SUSAN PIAZZA’S BOOK REVIEWS

Heroes In Our Midst ~ SUSAN PIAZZA’S BOOK REVIEWS

Heroes in Our Midst: From the Pages of The Valley Patriot Copyright © 2017, The Valley Patriot Genre: Nonfiction Softcover: 449 pages includes index Rating: 5 out of 5 Bookmarkers Available on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or at the Valley Patriot Office in North Andover.  By: Sue Piazza – June, 2017 Since the first […]

Strengthening Prescription Drug Safety ~ IN YOUR CORNER WITH SENATOR IVES

Strengthening Prescription Drug Safety ~ IN YOUR CORNER WITH SENATOR IVES

By: State Senator Katy O’Connor Ives – June, 2017 The Massachusetts State Senate debated the Fiscal Year 2018 state budget last month, where I advocated for key provisions that will be beneficial to the constituents of my district and the Commonwealth. One of the amendments in the Senate Fiscal Year 2018 budget, which I co-sponsored, […]

Hurricanes and Meteorological Summer ~ WEATHER 101 WITH AL KAPRIELAN

Hurricanes and Meteorological Summer ~ WEATHER 101 WITH AL KAPRIELAN

By: Al Kaprielian – June, 2017 Welcome to June the start of meteorological summer and the beginning of hurricane season. The month of May saw three consecutive days where the temperature reached 90 degrees or higher. This resulted in a heat wave that was the result of the Bermuda high pressure system strengthening and forcing […]

Netflix’s ‘Bloodline’ Ends With Riveting, Mysterious Final Season ~ TV TALK WITH BILL CUSHING

Netflix’s ‘Bloodline’ Ends With Riveting, Mysterious Final Season ~ TV TALK WITH BILL CUSHING

By: Bill Cushing – June, 2017 One of TV’s most binge-worthy shows, Bloodline, premiered its third and final season on Netflix on May 26 and brought to an end the story of the devious Rayburn clan. Be warned. This column contains spoilers. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this series, it follows the […]

AG Healey Gives Big Swamp Reptiles a Pass on Crime and Corruption

AG Healey Gives Big Swamp Reptiles a Pass on Crime and Corruption

By: Bharany Padmanabhan – June, 2017 Last month in this space I reported clearly on sweetheart no-bid contracts between the Board of Registration in Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society which the Society uses to coerce thousands of dollars out of doctors under the threat of the Board taking their medical license away if they […]

Drug Traffickers, VISA Reform, And Making Us Safer

Drug Traffickers, VISA Reform, And Making Us Safer

By: Rep. Linda Dean Campbell – June, 2017 As a State Representative who represents a district vibrant with the contributions and citizenship of immigrants, I want to share thoughts I have about how we might advocate for policies at the federal level which are so necessary right now to achieve positive results given the scourge […]

James Edward Bradley ~ U.S. Navy, WWII ~ VALLEY PATRIOT OF THE MONTH, HEROES IN OUR MIDST

James Edward Bradley ~ U.S. Navy, WWII ~ VALLEY PATRIOT OF THE MONTH, HEROES IN OUR MIDST

By: Beth D’Amato – June, 2017 On June 6th 1944, the allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. It’s been documented that this battle was responsible for nearly 210,000 casualties. This includes US and Allied forces both in air and on the ground. After the initial battle on D-Day, the reinforcement troops continued to […]

Dominican National Sentenced for Distributing Kilo of Heroin

Dominican National Sentenced for Distributing Kilo of Heroin

BOSTON – A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in two separate heroin trafficking rings operating in southeastern Massachusetts.  Francis Gonsalez-Romero, a/k/a Sam, 41, a Dominican national residing in Providence, R.I., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. to 84 months in prison and […]

All The Lies The “News Media” Told You About Trump – VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL (June, 2017)

All The Lies The “News Media” Told You About Trump – VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL (June, 2017)

How CNN Proved Every Day that They Are Fake News  With all that talk about “fake news” these days it’s hard to know what to believe anymore. So many news outlets have abandoned the idea that journalists are to report facts objectively, free of political propaganda and personal opinions. Today, reporters do not report, they […]

Retirement Saving for the Self-Employed ~ YOUR MONEY WITH ALEX TALCOTT

Retirement Saving for  the Self-Employed ~ YOUR MONEY WITH ALEX TALCOTT

By: Alex Talcott – May, 2017 New England is an especially exciting, entrepreneurial place. Many choose the fulfilling journey of self-employment, taking upon themselves the management of opportunities as well as responsibilities. Small-business owners just starting out are in control of virtually every aspect of their enterprise, which includes making personal retirement happen. If you […]

TV Talk Flashback: NYPD Blue Changes TV ~ TV TALK with BILL CUSHING

TV Talk Flashback:  NYPD Blue Changes TV  ~ TV TALK with BILL CUSHING

By: Billy Cushing – May, 2017 September 21, 1993. The face of television changed that day. It was definitely a change for the better. A change toward more quality programming on the major networks. That was the day that a show called NYPD Blue premiered on ABC. Cable networks had started to produce original content […]

Olivia Newton John ~ IN THE GROOVE WITH CINDY ANNIS

Olivia Newton John ~ IN THE GROOVE WITH CINDY ANNIS

By: Cindy Annis – May, 2017 Olivia Newton John was born on September 26, 1948 in Cambridge England to a Welsh mother and German father. She is the youngest in the family, having an older brother and sister. At age five, her family moved to Melbourne Australia where her father taught German and was dean […]

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