Patients ages 12 and up can be seen on the hospital’s Methuen campus METHUEN, MA – Steward Medical Group and Holy Family Hospital are pleased to welcome Epilepsy Specialist Kaarkuzhali B. Krishnamurthy, M.D., M.B.E. Dr. Krishnamurthy, the Director of Epilepsy at Steward Medical Group, will begin seeing patients on July 12, 2018, at Primary Care of […]
Western Rockingham County residents will once again gather in support of Isaiah 58 New Hampshire’s mission to provide food, clothing and shelter for the homeless and housing insecurity on Friday, September 7, 2018. We need your help to reach our goals this year! Four years ago Isaiah 58 NH was launched with a mission to […]
By: Rick Bellanti – May, 2018 Did you know there are many diets out there that claim you can lose weight? Did you also know how many there are? Or how many even work? To put an answer on that question is like asking how many songs have been written? Or how many stars are […]
GROVELAND – Recently our team facilitated the DementiaLive™ program to nurses, case managers and social workers at Nichols Village Independent Living Community in Groveland, MA. The program consisted of 20 health care professionals from across the Merrimack Valley. Celeste Begley, CCM, CDP, Community Relations Director, and Victoria Guskiewicz, CCM, MS, Community Relations Coordinator from our […]
PART 1 Last month Essex County Sheriff Kevin Coppinger appeared on the Paying Attention Podcast with Tom Duggan to discuss the opioid crisis and what he is doing in the Sheriff’s Department to help stem the tide. “I served in the Lynn Police Dept. for 32 years, before that I was a police officer in […]
By: Tom Duggan – May 23, 2018 A homeless encampment on the railroad bridge adjacent to the water falls in South Lawrence has been bulldozed by the Lawrence DPW with the assistance of the Lawrence Police Wednesday morning. The encampment, made up of half a dozen tents and make shift structures has been inhabited by […]
MAY, 2018 Driving through the City of Lawrence it’s almost impossible not to notice the homeless population, whether they are pan-handling on the corners of the busiest intersections, or hassling people for a cigarette or a dollar outside local establishments. Unfortunately, most people turn their heads and pretend not to see the human carnage […]
By: State Senator Katy Ives – May, 2018 The State Senate included funding in the Fiscal Year 2018 supplemental budget for the Municipal Naloxone Bulk Purchase Trust Fund, which allows municipalities to purchase naloxone for municipal first responder agencies at a discounted rate. I filed an amendment to this supplemental budget that would allocate $150,000 […]
The Essex County Sheriff’s Department (ECSD) held a Grand Opening event on May 16 for its new Re-Entry Transition Unit (RTU) at the department’s Pre-Release Center on Marston St. in Lawrence. Inmates within the last 90 days of their sentence will be provided Re-Entry services to help them effectively transition back to the community. “We […]
By: Rick Bellanti – April, 2018 Over the last year you have seen me write about what foods to stay away from, what foods make you unhealthy and also cause inflammation in our bodies causing us pain. We even talked a few months back about what foods are too acidic and what to eat to […]
By: Dr. Bharani Padmanabhan – March, 2018 I’ve wondered about the clerical staff at our courthouses who see shady briefs pass through their hands and witness judges issue corrupt decisions every day. And I figured they keep quiet because they are afraid of losing their pensions. Not one leak to the press. It’s the silence […]
By: Rick Bellanti – March, 2014 Here we are into our third month of the year and hopefully your New Year’s resolution to get healthy is still going strong. If your weight loss has slowed down a bit, it’s normal. Remember it’s not about just working out. You have to take a look at what […]
Eleven year old Nathan Scanlon got the ride of his life last month when the North Andover Police and Cops for Kids with Cancer paid him and his family a visit in their Johnson Street home, lights and sirens blaring. Nathan came out of his house to a line of police officers in his […]
By: Peter Larocque – Feb.2018 God Bless you and Happy New Year! It is great to be back for an exciting 2018 writing about the Goodness of God! Just the other day after work I sat in my chair and began to click away with my TV remote. Then I came across the rebroadcast of […]
By: Joe D’Amore – Feb. 2018 Homeless population counts are now underway nationally and throughout the state sponsored by HUD and state agencies tasked with the annual census process. The goal is to identify not only numbers of homeless people but also concentrations of them so that resources and affordable housing efforts can be aligned […]