Salvatore’s Donates and Serves Gourmet Meal to Homeless in Lawrence

Salvatore’s Donates and Serves Gourmet Meal to Homeless in Lawrence

  With the Daybreak Homeless Shelter in Lawrence in desperate need of funding to care for the less fortunate, the new owner of Salvatore’s Restaurant, Mike Agricola, showed up last month with two of his staff, Eric Soucy and Joyce Philbrick, to lend a helping hand. “This is wonderful,” Carina Pappalardo, head of the Greater […]

Dominicans in Lawrence Vote for Dominican President, Show ID to Vote and say Voter ID is “Not Racist”

Dominicans in Lawrence Vote for Dominican President, Show ID to Vote and say Voter ID is “Not Racist”

  By: Tom Duggan – 5-15-16 LAWRENCE – The gymnasium of the old high school on Haverhill St. was filled to capacity Sunday afternoon as Dominican citizens who live in the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts turned out in large numbers to vote for the next Dominican President.  Dominican citizens who have dual citizenship with the […]

Democrat Violence for Democrat Causes – VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL (5-16)

Democrat Violence for Democrat Causes – VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL (5-16)

VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL  For years, the false media narrative has been that the Tea Party controls the Republican Party and is made up of a bunch of “extremists” who could turn violent any minute. They are mocked and linked to the Republican Party on TV dramas like Law and Order, and are portrayed as bigots […]

An Interview with Bylli Crayone Of Lawrence (Part I) on His New Release “Green”

An Interview with Bylli Crayone Of Lawrence (Part I) on His New Release “Green”

  Last month The Valley Patriot sat down with Lawrence singing sensation Bylli Crayone to discuss the 25th anniversary of his first release (which came out last February) called “25 Years, The Best Of”. We also asked him about his 5th studio Album “Green” which was realeased yesterday.  How did you get started? “I started in 1991. The […]

Mayor Fiorentini Debuts Passport Mobile Parking App New mobile app makes parking easier in Haverhill

Mayor Fiorentini Debuts Passport Mobile Parking App New mobile app makes parking easier in Haverhill

May 12, 2016- Mayor Fiorentini is introducing a new way for people parking in Haverhill to pay for parking. Haverhill has launched Passport, a mobile pay provider for parking and transportation, to all on and off-street parking locations.  The Passport App will make city parking easier by giving drivers an additional option of payment besides […]

MA State Auditor Wins National Award for Combatting Waste at MassHealth

MA State Auditor Wins National Award for Combatting Waste at MassHealth

  Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump has been selected to receive the National State Auditors Association (NSAA) Excellence in Accountability Award for its audit of payments made by MassHealth for services that should have been paid for by Managed Care Organizations (MCO). The audit for which the Auditor’s Office will receive this award found […]

How the Newburyport Daily News is Trying to Rig the Selectman Race in Salisbury

How the Newburyport Daily News is Trying to Rig the Selectman Race in Salisbury

PAYING ATTENTION ON-LINE EXTRA   This week the Newburyport Daily News (owned by the Eagle ~Tribune, headquartered in Alabama) ran a hit piece on Salisbury Selectman candidate Gil Medeiros being fired 8 years ago from his job at the Essex County Sheriff’s Department.  And, while the Daily news seems to have finally figured out how […]

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $415M – Drawing is Saturday

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $415M – Drawing is Saturday

Grand prize in Saturday night’s drawing is highest since world-record $1.586 billion jackpot on January 13 BRAINTREE, MA (MAY 5, 2016) – The Powerball jackpot for the Saturday, May 7 drawing is an estimated $415 million. The cash option on the prize is an estimated $269.7 million. Last hit on March 2, this jackpot has been […]

State Auditor Bump Discovers State Retirement Board Paid $687K to Dead People

State Auditor Bump Discovers State Retirement Board Paid $687K to Dead People

Board Has Taken Steps to Address Problem, Recoup Funds BOSTON, MA — Auditor Suzanne M. Bump today issued an audit of the Massachusetts State Retirement Board (MSRB), which found that the agency made more than $687,000 in payments to deceased pensioners, and underpaid more than $271,000 to pensioners whose designated beneficiaries had died. The error […]

Jaws of Life Needed to Extract Trapped Woman in Lawrence While Porch Collapsing

Jaws of Life Needed to Extract Trapped Woman in Lawrence While Porch Collapsing

Lawrence Emergency responders this morning are using the jaws of life to extract a trapped woman from her car on Brook Street after she crashed into a house and telephone pole. The accident happened shortly before 6AM Wednesday morning. The Lawrence building inspector was called to assess the integrity of the building as the porch […]

Lawrence Council Refuses to Tear Down Building Owned By Councilor Reyes, Declares Panhandling for Earthquake Victims in Ecuador “an Emergency”

Lawrence Council Refuses to Tear Down Building Owned By Councilor Reyes, Declares Panhandling for Earthquake Victims in Ecuador “an Emergency”

      By: Tom Duggan, May 3, 2016|820pm The Lawrence City Council refused to tear down a crumbling building owned by one of their own councilors by refusing to take the measure up as an emergency. The roof of the building has collapsed and the cinder blocks at the top of the building and are […]