Is Your Child Addicted To Video Games? ~ Babies and Briefcases

Is Your Child Addicted To Video Games? ~ Babies and Briefcases

By: Cheryl Hajjar – May, 2015 Gamers come in all different shapes and sizes. Everyone of us knows a gamer who sits in front the TV and plays on Xbox or PlayStation for hours at a time with their friends. Its almost like a cult, where in their subculture, they speak another language that only […]

Memorial Day

Memorial Day

By: John Lenotte – May, 2015 Memorial Day is again approaching. That time for the unofficial beginning of Summer. And after this last Winter, we are all looking forward to sun and warm weather. As I do every year, I will ask you to take a few minutes to think about those who made sacrifices […]

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Address to the MA Legislature

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Address to the MA Legislature

By: Senator Katy Ives – May, 2015 On April 22, 1965, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed the Massachusetts Legislature in a Joint Session comprised of State Senate and State Representatives. This was the first time Dr. King spoke before a legislative body. Six months prior to this visit, he had won the […]

NECC Baseball Team Headed to World Series for Fourth Year in a Row

NECC Baseball Team Headed to World Series for Fourth Year in a Row

For the fourth consecutive year, the Northern Essex Community College Knights baseball team will head to the NJCAA World Series. After a perfect 15-0 record in the Region XXI competition, they emerged from the Region XXI Baseball Tournament unscathed, with a perfect 3-0, toppling Holyoke Community College 17-7 in the title game. Ranked eighth nationally, […]

Participation Trophies: The White Towel In The Ring – Babies & Briefcases

Participation Trophies: The White Towel In The Ring – Babies & Briefcases

By: Cheryl Hajjar – April, 2015 The new trend of “participation trophies” has a lot of parents scratching their heads. Is it right? Is it wrong? And more importantly, is it producing a generation of children that have a sense of entitlement? A recent debate on my Facebook page made me curious to want to dig deeper […]

Bringing the State Senate to Our District – IN YOUR CORNER WITH SENATOR IVES

Bringing the State Senate to Our District – IN YOUR CORNER WITH SENATOR IVES

By: State Senator Ives – April, 2015 The Massachusetts State Senate organized eight days throughout the winter to host Commonwealth Conversations across the state, comprised of roundtables, forums and town hall-style meetings to hear from residents and stakeholders–gathering input on policy and budget priorities. These forums are part of an effort to make government even […]

Haverhill Police Station Sprinklers Recalled, City Officials Never Replaced Them

Haverhill Police Station Sprinklers Recalled, City Officials Never Replaced Them

By: Tom Duggan – April, 2015 Earlier this year The Valley Patriot published a report concerning the health dangers of leaking windows and the long term effects of the leaking roof at the Haverhill Police Station. These issues have existed going back to the actual construction of the station in 1998 and resulted in mold […]

Tsongas Presents Purple Heart Posthumously (Story & Video)

Tsongas Presents Purple Heart Posthumously (Story & Video)

Tom Duggan April, 2015 (VIDEO BELOW) – Last month, Congressman Niki Tsongas presented a Purple Heart posthumously to the family of Carmelo Sciacca of Lawrence. Wounded in action on Sept. 19, 1944 at the Moselle River (in the Metz region of France) Carmelo was under the command of General George C. Patton, under Patton’s 80th division […]

BREAKING… Haverhill Police Looking for Your Help Identifying, Finding Bank Robbery Suspect

BREAKING… Haverhill Police Looking for Your Help Identifying, Finding Bank Robbery Suspect

Haverhill Police are searching for a bank robbery suspect who held up the Pentucket Bank located at 395 Lowell Ave at approx 11:45am today. Police say the suspect fled into a grey car, possibly a Hyundai Sonata with Massachusetts plates . Anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call Haverhill Police at 978 373 […]

Haverhill Mayor Fiorentini’s State of the City Address 2015

Haverhill Mayor Fiorentini’s State of the City Address 2015

The State of the City of Haverhill 2015 The Haverhill of Tomorrow   Good evening and welcome.  I would like to welcome and introduce members of our legislative delegation, school committee members and other elected officials. Ways and Means Committee chair, Brian Dempsey, State Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives, State Representatives Linda Dean Campbell and Diana Dizoglio, […]

Awaken The Genius in Your Child ~ BABIES AND BRIEFCASES

Awaken The Genius in Your Child ~ BABIES AND BRIEFCASES

By: Cheryl Hajjar – March, 2015 From a young age, we were all asked what we wanted to be when we grow up. The boys either said a policeman, or a doctor or a lawyer, and the girls usually said they wanted to be nurses and mothers. Respectable callings for sure but where did they get […]

Representative Update: Legislation That I Am Filing

Representative Update:  Legislation That I Am Filing

By: Linda Dean Campbell – March , 2015 This session I am sponsoring and co-sponsoring approximately fifty pieces of Legislation targeting substance abuse prevention in the Merrimack Valley. Perhaps the most challenging legislation that I am filing is that drafted by the Massachusetts District Attorney’s Association. After meeting with DA Blodgett to discuss his perspective on […]

Haverhill Mayor Fiorentini Elected President of Mass Mayors’ Association

Haverhill Mayor Fiorentini Elected  President of Mass Mayors’ Association

Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini was unanimously elected President of the Massachusetts Mayors’ Association (MMA) during the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) held in Boston on January 23 and 24, 2015. Mayor Fiorentini was elected by his fellow mayors to lead the Mayors’ Association, which meets regularly throughout the year so that […]

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