The Good Doctor: Network TV’s Best New Drama ~ TV TALK with BILL CUSHING

The Good Doctor: Network TV’s Best New Drama ~ TV TALK with BILL CUSHING

By: Billy Cushing – Dec. 2017 When Bates Motel ended its 5-season run in April, it didn’t take long for its star, Freddie Highmore, to get another gig. Now he is starring on ABC’s excellent new series, The Good Doctor. The Good Doctor comes from creator David Shore, the same person who created the long […]

Lawrence Man Sentenced to 22 Months in Prison for Falsifying Audio Recordings in Federal Investigation

Lawrence Man Sentenced to 22 Months in Prison for Falsifying Audio Recordings in Federal Investigation

Defendant was paid cooperator for Internal Revenue Service  BOSTON – A Lawrence man who was working as a paid cooperator for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with falsifying audio recordings in a federal investigation.   Erick Santiago-Then, 36, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 22 months in prison, […]

Be the Change… ~ ROBINS KITTY CORNER

Be the Change… ~ ROBINS KITTY CORNER

By: Robin Desmet – Dec. 2017 As I was strolling through the mall doing some early Christmas shopping, I saw a sign that said “Be the change you want to see in the world.” I’ve never been the type to embrace those corny sayings, but something about this particular sign struck me. I suddenly realized […]

Public Awareness for Compromised Public Waterways

Public Awareness for Compromised Public Waterways

By: Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives – Dec. 2017 I recently testified in front of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on a bill I co-sponsored, S448 An Act Promoting Awareness of Safe Recreation in Public Waterways requesting that it be given a favorable recommendation. This bill will institute a statewide sewage discharge […]

Mass Lottery Jackpot Total over $1B for Weekend Drawings

Mass Lottery Jackpot Total over $1B for Weekend Drawings

Powerball jackpot at $550 million, Mega Millions jackpot at $445 million, in-state Megabucks Doubler jackpot at $8.2 million BRAINTREE, MA (JANUARY 4, 2018) – More than $1 billion dollars are available to be won this weekend across three jackpot games offered by the Massachusetts State Lottery.  The Mega Millions jackpot for the Friday, January 5 drawing has been increased […]

America’s New McCarthyism

America’s New McCarthyism

By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen, Dec. 2017 Not since the McCarthy era has one segment of society been hunted on the kind of threadbare allegations with the unconscionable sort of zealousness today’s men of influence are. Ever since Harvey Weinstein, pursued by tons of women for greater fame and fortune, or even just a bit […]

Hero Among Us at the Garden

Hero Among Us at the Garden

  By: Shawn Hansen – Dec. 2017 For Dorothy “Dot” Hayes of the Jason Hayes Foundation, her week ended being honored in center court at the Boston Celtics/Orlando Magic game on November 24, 2017. Establishing the aforementioned foundation in 2005 in memory of her late son, Jason Hayes, Dot and other members of the foundation’s […]

Legislature Passes Expanded English Language Opportunities

Legislature Passes Expanded  English Language Opportunities

Representative Frank A. Moran (D-Lawrence, Andover, Methuen) joined his colleagues in the Massachusetts Legislature to pass bipartisan legislation that updates the existing statute relative to English language education in the Commonwealth’s public schools. An Act relative to language opportunity for our kids, also known as the LOOK bill, promotes research-based best practices for programs serving […]

If You Build It, They Will Come – Rail Trails and Heroin Trails ~ PAYING ATTENTION with TOM DUGGAN

If You Build It, They Will Come – Rail Trails and Heroin Trails ~ PAYING ATTENTION with TOM DUGGAN

Last month, the state legislature approved giving Lawrence another $1.5M for … get this … improvements to the “rail trail”. For those who don’t know what the “rail trail” is, check this out. Your local and state officials have been spending millions of your tax dollars every year to create pretty walking areas along dead […]

Lawrence Closes 2017 with One More Murder Just Hours Before the New Year Rings

Lawrence Closes 2017 with One More Murder Just Hours Before the New Year Rings

Lawrence Police tackled their last murder of 2017 just a few short hours before the start of the new year.  Witnesses told Lawrence Police that someone was shooting out the windows of a minivan on Reservoir Street near Hilltop Ave on the outskirts of the Bellivue Cemetery shortly after 9pm.  When police arrived they found a […]

Methuen Fire Donates Coats to Families in Need

Methuen Fire Donates Coats to Families in Need

  The Methuen Fire Department and Methuen Firefighters Local 1691 teamed up with Columbia Gas to hand out 88 coats, hats, and gloves to children as part of Operation Warm at the Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Head Start, 24 Gill Ave. in Methuen. The kids were thrilled to receive their new winter gear, meet […]

Drive By Shooter on Springfield St in Lawrence Crashes into House, Causes Gas Leak , Several Homes Evacuated

Drive By Shooter on Springfield St in Lawrence Crashes into House, Causes Gas Leak , Several Homes Evacuated

[youtube https://youtu.be/T8cMqT0FVL4&h=280&w=380]   By: Tom Duggan – Dec. 30, 2017 In the -3 degree cold early Saturday morning, Lawrence Police raced to 34 Springfield Street responding to a call of “shots fired”. The caller stated that they heard five shots in the area near Parker Street “no vehicle description” the dispatcher said, revealing that it was […]

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