Lawrence, MA – Home Health VNA was recently ranked as one of the country’s highest performing home care agencies in the area of patient satisfaction by scoring in the top 25% of Fazzi Associates National Patient Satisfaction survey called the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems or HHCAHPS. This survey is […]
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Foreclosed property had substantial, unauthorized alterations to bordering vegetated wetlands BOSTON – The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) penalized Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust (LBMLT) $105,000 for unauthorized alterations made to approximately 10,000 square feet of wetlands at 115-117 Merrill Avenue in Haverhill. Preceding the foreclosure on this land by LBMLT, Marilyn Campbell owned […]
ANDOVER- Shortly after delivering remarks at the annual Veteran’s Day ceremony in neighboring North Andover, Andover resident Oscar Camargo will announce his candidacy for the 18th Essex’s State Representative seat. Camargo, a 15-year US Army veteran, will express his intentions to prospective voters on November 11th at 2:30PM in front of Andover’s Old Town Hall. Running […]
LAWRENCE – The recall effort against Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera by former Mayor William Lantigua supporters has declined into chaos with two separate (legally valid) recall petitions circulating throughout the city to remove the mayor from office. Rivera’s attorney was in court Wednesday asking a judge to put a halt to the second recall, the […]
BOSTON – A member of the Worcester Wildcats semi-professional football team was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for his role in carrying out a stolen identity refund fraud scheme that resulted in an almost $1 million loss to the federal government. Jose Manuel Abreu-Elicier, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Timothy […]
On Tuesday morning, (10/27/15), the US Marshals and Haverhill Police arrested Willy J. Metz age 29 at 30 Briarwood Dr. Haverhill MA on multiple warrants for Trafficking Firearms and Trafficking Cocaine. These warrants were the result of a joint Haverhill Police/ ATF investigation. To date 28 individuals have been charged as part of the investigation involving […]
By: Tom Duggan – Oct. 29, 2015 In 2010, Sven Amirian declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy when his successful business was hit hard by the recession. Documents obtained by The Valley Patriot show that Amirian owed $303,244.75 in total debt including his mortgage. The bankruptcy was discharged in 2011. Amirian is a candidate for Haverhill School Committee and also […]
By: Kathy Runge – Oct. 2015 I heard that the real reason for the extreme shortage of poll workers for the Preliminary Election was that the city required the poll workers to be citizens (of the United States). Does that mean that there were non-citizens working the polls for the other elections? There was at […]
Murphy was paid privately for work on permit applications and plans submitted to the Conservation Commission; then reviewed those applications and plans as consultant to the Conservation Commission. The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission issued a $10,000 fine against Robert Murphy, a former consultant to the Town of Canton Conservation Commission (ConCom). The Ethics Commission found that […]
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By: Tom Duggan – Oct. 25, 2015 At least three Methuen Public School students were arrested this week for threatening mass school shootings. The first, a high school student, the other two were 8th graders at the Tenney Middle School. In an exclusive interview with The Valley Patriot on Saturday, Methuen Police Chief Joe Solomon […]
By: Tom Duggan – Oct. 23, 2015|7pm For the second time in two days, Methuen Public School students have been arrested for threatening to shoot up a school and kill other kids. (High School Student Arrested). This time it was two 8th grade students at the Tenney Middle School. Methuen police say they arrested the 8th grade […]
IT’S NICE TO BE NICE… OR IS IT? THE NICE GUY CANDIDATE Salisbury Selectman Chuck Takesian is a nice guy, isn’t he? Everybody loves Chuck. It’s hard to find anyone with a bad word to say about him. When he dies people will give the old cliché that “everybody loved him, nobody had a […]
October 23, 20115|1:15pm HAVERHILL – Haverhill Superintendent James Scully said today that a student at the John Greenleaf Whittier Middle School was arrested for bringing a knife and an airgun to school. “The Haverhill Police were immediately notified and responded,” Scully said in a press release Friday morning. “The student was removed from the building and […]