By: Bharani Padmanabhan – April, 2019 When Lucian Leape abandoned the profession of medicine and set out to make it subservient to corporate monopolies he began by claiming doctors are the same as airline pilots. Firstly, Leape claimed that doctors do not care about their patients and care only about their outsized egos. This crystalized […]
By: Rick Bellanti – April, 2019 When it comes to healthy eating, fats most always get a bad rap. Fats are not one size fits all and are not created equal by any means. Some fats are better for you than others, and some fats may even help with your healthy diet goals, but knowing […]
By: Bill Cushing – April, 2019 ‘After Life’ is a new Netflix series written, directed, and starring Ricky Gervais. I’m not even sure you could classify ‘After Life’ as a comedy even though it is hilarious at times. It deals with topics such as depression, grief, mental illness, and suicide. It may be more […]
By: Tram Nguyen, April, 2019 The 191st legislative session of the Massachusetts General Court is well underway on Beacon Hill with a record number of women represented in the first-year class. The House of Representatives welcomes 12 women among its 23 new legislators. In the Senate, 3 of the 5 newly-elected Senators are women. The […]
By: Rep. Linda Dean Campbell, April, 2019 As a Veteran, I am honored to have been appointed as House Chair of the Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs for this session and to have the opportunity to work on legislation that will improve services and care for those who have served. My first order […]
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.—To commemorate the June 6, 1944, Normandy landings, North Andover author Kevin Dennehy has written a guidebook that helps tourists find monuments and other sites near the epic battle. The D-Day Visitor’s Handbook: Your Guide to the Normandy Battlefields and WWII Paris not only provides history about the battle, but describes the best places […]
Haverhill, Mass- Among the beautiful elements inside High Pointe House, the hospice and palliative care residence of Merrimack Valley Hospice, now includes six new rocking chairs, handcrafted by Boy Scout Christopher Tringale of North Andover. Chris made the wooden rocking chairs as his Eagle Scout Service Project in memory of his grandmother, who was cared […]
Crafts, Food, Fun and Sheep Return to North Andover for the Town’s Traditional Spring Celebration North Andover, MA – The 47th annual North Andover Sheep Shearing Festival, sponsored in part by Pentucket Bank and Wheelabrator, Inc. returns for its traditional spring celebration on Sunday, May 19th, on the North Andover Town Common from 10:00 a.m. […]
Hello Valley Patriot Readers, The snow is just about gone, it’s now light out at 7 p.m., and the temperatures are getting warmer by the day. Spring is here, and before you know it, we’ll be outside swimming and boating in no time, whether it’s at a beach or on the banks of the Merrimack […]
Methuen Police arrested two men suspected of stealing cash from ATMs after serving a search warrant Saturday. METHUEN — Methuen Police arrested two men Saturday suspected of stealing money from ATM machines. Tharushan Nimalachandran , 30, OF Quebec, Canada and Ajitharan Raveendran, 28, of Ontario, Canada were each charged with Possession of a Burglarious Instrument and […]
Valley Patriot readers and advertisers stepped up to the plate again this year donating a total of $2,100 for our Valley Patriot, Gr. Lawrence Tech Scholarships at the 15th Anniversary BASH. DAHIANNA DIPLAN Michael Gagliardi, president of Laborer’s Union Local 175 donated $1,000 again this year for a student graduating from the Gr. Lawrence Tech. […]
April, 2019 Last year Dan Coady of Coady’s Towing and Garage Service in Lawrence was struck and killed on Rt. 495. Within two days, one of our readers, Al Veilleux showed up at the Valley Patriot office and said he wanted to donate $500 to a scholarship at the Valley Patriot BASH in […]
By: John Cuddy – April, 2019 Chelmsford’s Mike Miskell, like many of the men and women who served during World War II, formed a lifelong friendship with another soldier they served with during the war. Mike was with York, Pennsylvania’s George Meanor, a Technical Sargent in his unit, the US Army’s 217th Artillery. The two […]
By: Brian Genest – April, 2019 Free speech can be hard to swallow, especially in Dracut. You’d think that a letter from Judicial Watch challenging the constitutionality of the political sign bylaw would be the talk of the town government. You’d be wrong. Here’s some highlights, so you can see for yourself… “After hearing from […]
Valley Patriot readers donated a total of $2,175 for a scholarship to Lawrence High School senior Rachel Hiraldo at the Valley Patriot’s 15th Anniversary Bash at the Firefighters Relief’s In on April 5th. Donating to this scholarship were: Eugene Smith – $1,200, The Lawrence Lions Club – $300, Anonymous – $100, Kelly O’Brien – $100, […]