NOW THAT WAS A BASH!!! Each year the Valley Patriot celebrates our anniversary with a charity BASH scholarship and award night. This year we raised and gave away almost $10,000 in scholarships to local students, raised money for Veterans Northeast Outreach in Haverhill, and were able to give out 8 different awards to community heroes. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
Valley Patriot Renames Award for Good Samaritan Scott Clegg By: Tom Duggan, April, 2019 Last year a Good Samaritan in the Merrimack Valley named Scott Clegg passed away. He wasn’t famous, he never ran for office, and he had no interest in being thanked for the work he did in the community. But Mr. Clegg […]
Rondon family will join lawmakers, first responders, community organizations in Lawrence as Senator Markey outlines new legislation in wake of Merrimack Valley natural gas disaster Washington (April 5, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey and Congresswoman Lori Trahan will hold a press conference on Monday, April 8 with Merrimack Valley elected officials, state legislators, first responders, and […]
By: Bill Cushing – March, 2019 ‘Russian Doll,’ the new Netflix series starring Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is The New Black) is the perfect show for a weekend binge. The show is eight episodes and each episode is just under 30 minutes in length, with each episode covering a range of emotions from funny, to […]
By: Paul Murano – March, 2019 We Americans tend to bask in the humiliation of others. This is especially true if they’re famous. Much of mainstream journalism has joined the tabloid industry in commonly breaking the eighth commandment by unnecessarily causing scandal and humiliation to individuals for the sake of ratings. Ratings means money, and […]
Officers Indicted on Various Charges Including Assault, Perjury, Misleading, and Conspiracy; Bar Owner and Bar Manager also Charged WORCESTER — Thirteen Springfield Police Department officers and one former officer have been indicted on various charges in connection with an assault on four victims and an attempt to cover up the details of the assault afterwards, Attorney General […]
The Methuen Police Department reports that with the assistance of a regional SWAT team, they arrested two men and recovered an illegal firearm and Fentanyl after a fight and disturbance broke out at an apartment building late Thursday evening. As a result of diligent work by Methuen Police officers and their mutual aid partners, GERMAN […]