Paying Attention! Radio, 9-22-12

Paying Attention! Radio, 9-22-12

HOUR 1: Click Here to Listen or Download  HOUR 2: Click Here to Listen or Download   Today Tom and Paul talked about the indictments of Willie Lantigua’s administration, some audio clips of Former Methuen Town Manager Bob Leblanc who is now a hack for Lantigua. LeBlanc has been appearing on other shows NOT disclosing […]

Nope, The Shriners Convention had Nothing on These Guys

Nope, The Shriners Convention had Nothing on These Guys

By: Jeff Katz – September, 2012 Every four years our political parties hold conventions for the purpose of writing a platform and nominating a couple of folks to lead the free world. In between those functions, we get to see a bunch of balloons and really silly hats and we are entertained with any number […]

Voters Reject Representative David Torrisi – Voter ID a Factor

VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL Last month one of the strongest opponents of Voter ID in the Massachusetts State Legislature, David Torrissi (D) North Andover, was defeated by a conservative, Pro Voter-ID opponent named Diana DiZoglio … who is also … a Democrat! Democrats? In favor of Voter ID? Who could have thought?  We did.  For years […]

The Valley Loses Four K-9 Dogs in the Past Few Months

The Valley Loses Four K-9 Dogs in the Past Few Months

By: Tracey Zysk, Valley Patriot Doggie Columnist – September, 2012 In the past few months the Merrimack Valley experienced the unexplainable and unbelievable.   The loss of four very well established and experienced K-9 dogs.   Three to cancer and one to retirement.  It normally doesn’t happen this way,  but in this case it did.  This is […]

Forward?

Forward?

By: Paul Murano – September, 2012 Once again America has been subject to the game of psychological and emotional manipulation called politics. It is offensive to anyone devoted to the truth. In the two national conventions this past month we’ve learned that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama help their wives with the dishes, love their […]

Solomon Decision was Right for Methuen

Solomon Decision was Right for Methuen

  By: D.J. Deeb – September, 2012 On Thursday, July 26th, Lawrence Superior Court Judge Robert Cornetta ruled that the City of Methuen had failed to prove its case that the Civil Service Commission erred in ordering the reinstatement of Joe Solomon as Methuen’s Police Chief. This was not only the right decision for Solomon, […]

Frye Circle in Andover

  By: Anne Knowles – September, 2012 As a new resident of Frye Circle, in Andover, I was interested in the location and development of such a pleasant setting for a home for senior residents. The complex contains 96 units. It is named after the Frye family, the first member of the family to make […]

Andover Senior Center

  By: Anne Knowles – September, 2012 September has been designated as Senior Center Month, in the town of Andover. Many residents of Andover have not yet made use of this center, and the many programs, recreational activities, trips, and interests, that a fully informed staff can show the 60 plus Andover resident. There is […]

HERO IN OUR MIDST Corporal Philip Cote, USAAF

HERO IN OUR MIDST Corporal Philip Cote, USAAF

VALLEY PATRIOT OF THE MONTH By: Helen Mooradkanian – September, 2012 Corporal Philip Cote, U.S. Army Air Force—who will celebrate his 96th birthday on October 31—was an eyewitness to history on Tinian Island in the Pacific during World War II. Raised in a log cabin in Tewksbury, Mass., and now living in Dracut, he witnessed two […]