Mayor DePeña Also States Denial of Public Grants led to Slanderous Public Accusations Against Him LAWRENCE, MA – Mayor Brian A. DePeña is strongly denouncing a series of false and malicious allegations made by Ms. Sara Pérez, describing them as “a calculated campaign of retaliation and misinformation motivated by personal grievances, not by truth […]
El alcalde DePeña también afirma que la denegación de subvenciones públicas llevó a acusaciones públicas difamatorias en su contra LAWRENCE, MA – El Alcalde Brian A. DePeña rechazó con firmeza una serie de acusaciones falsas y malintencionadas hechas por la Sra. Sara Pérez, describiéndolas como “una campaña calculada de represalias y desinformación motivada por intereses […]
11/3/25 This is what really happened to us because we unfortunately relied on Brian DePena, the candidate who smiles and looks believable. Brian DePena irreparably harmed us, cost us an enormous amount of money, and ultimately had us lose our family home that our parents bought in 1942 when they married and our father opened […]
Methuen City Council At-Large Debate Six candidates are vying for three open seats in the city-wide race for Methuen City Council. All six candidates appeared on Valley Patriot publisher Tom Duggan’s podcast Paying Attention! to debate the issues facing the city. The candidates are: Jana Zanni Pesce, Frank Surillo, Wanda Santos, James Sarcione, Ryan DiZoglioi, […]
11/3/25 The Lawrence City Council is made up of nine councilors: six district councilors and three at-large (city-wide) councilors. The only elected councilor not running for reelection this year is District “A” City Councilor Fidelina Santiago who is sitting in a prison cell serving eight months for stealing mail-in-ballots and forging signatures of voters to […]
11/3/25 LAWRENCE – On November 4th, Lawrence voters have a choice between current mayor Brian DePena who is serving his first four-year term, and challenger, hero firefighter Juan “Manny” Gonzalez. According to the Lawrence city charter the mayor serves a four year term and can only serve two terms. The duties of mayor include running […]
Voters in Methuen will elect a mayor, city councilors, and school committee on November 4th. The Methuen City Council is made up of nine members. Three are elected city-wide or At-Large. This year there are six candidates running. Two of them are incumbents, Jana Zanni-Pesce and Frank Surillo. Surillo was appointed to fill the seat […]
By Methuen Mayor DJ Beauregard 11/25 It’s not uncommon for politically attuned residents to come up to me and ask a string of questions that usually go something like this: “Why is the term of the Mayor of Methuen only two years? Shouldn’t it be a four-year term, like they have in Lawrence? How can […]
While Lawrence, Methuen, Haverhill, and Lowell voters are all going to the polls on November 4th to choose local leaders, there’s one critical issue that no local candidates are talking about: local government overreach. While partisan Democrats here in the valley cry on social media about ICE and call federal agents; “fascists” and “secret […]
1/1725 Methuen School Committee member Kristen Maxwell says she called the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Friday to notify them that she responded to an official school committee email earlier in the day and mistakenly hit “reply to all” which constituted a technical violation of the state’s open meeting law. The open meeting law states that […]
By: Kevin Dube North Andover Republican Town Committee North Andover is the home of Gerrymandering. The term itself is named for Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry due to redistricting in 1812 which gave rise to a meandering district of which Andover was the center of. Of course, back then Andover and North Andover were a single […]
By: Carrie Kneeland Groton Republican Town Committee 9/25 If you were set-up (let’s just say if) and you were facing a fabricated gun theft charge (State violation) and were told if you pursued your innocence and lost the trial you could go to jail for up to five (5) years or more, so under duress […]
By: Lenny Mirra 9/25 Sitting politicians have a vested interest in convincing people that our election systems are perfectly safe and that there is absolutely no voter fraud to worry about. This is especially true for our Secretary of State Bill Galvin who, after more than 30 years in that office, is clearly more concerned […]
Campaign Expense Accounts per The Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance This month Lawrence and Methuen are held preliminary elections for mayor, city council and school committee. State law mandates that candidates who raise or spend money on their campaign file a financial report with the State Office of Campaign and Political Finance. This report […]
By: Tom Duggan- 9/19/25 LAWRENCE CANCELS VOTE BY MAIL After Lawrence City Councilor Fidelina Santiago was convicted and sentenced this week to six months in prison for stealing mail-in ballots and committing voter fraud in the 2023 city council race, Lawrence Councilors voted last night to cancel mail-in voting for that city’s November 4th municipal […]