By: Cindy Annis – Nov. 2017 The Byrds were a rock group from Los Angeles California. They started recording in the middle of 1964 with members Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and David Crosby. In 1957, Roger McGuinn went to ‘The Old Time School of Folk Music’ in Chicago. There, he learned how to play the […]
By: Alex Talcot – Nov.2017 If you are a Medicare enrollee, you should know that open enrollment takes place from October 15 through December 7, 2017. Any changes you make to your coverage will take effect on January 1, 2018. Since your health care priorities are likely to change over time, you might find it […]
By: Robin Desmet – Nov. 2017 Because I trap and rescue cats, people will often tell me that they can nolonger keep their own cat(s) and ask if I can rehome them. Well, the short answer is, “No. I cannot.” Believe it or not, everyone I know already has a cat or three. I always […]
By: Bill Cushing – Nov. 2017 “How do we get ahead of crazy, if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” That is the question posed by FBI Agent Bill Tench in the riveting new Netflix series Mindhunter. Tench (Holt McCallany) presents that question to his boss, a hardened bureau man who considers psychiatry as […]
By: Joe D’Amore – Nov. 2017 The City of Lawrence has placed wide swathes of the population at risk with its suit against the federal government in defending dubious principles of local sovereignty. It has joined the City of Chelsea in a nationwide trend of municipalities engaging in activism. Lawrence has a proud immigrant history, […]
Valley Patriot Editorial We are continually told by the executives of Google, Facebook, and Twitter that they do not have the capability to track or censor Muslim terrorists who use social media platforms to plan and carry out murder against those who oppose their Islamic agenda. As the result thousands if not millions have been […]
By: Senator Katy Ives – Nov. 2017 The State Senate unanimously passed a comprehensive bill that would require higher education institutions in Massachusetts to set in place requirements on how campus police report and disclose an incident of dating violence, sexual assault or stalking. S.2191 filed by Senator Moore. An Act Concerning Sexual Violence on […]
To the Editor: Haverhill residents are facing an important choice when they go to the polls on November 7th to elect a new state representative from the 3rd Essex District. As a friend, a neighbor, and as someone who will be that new legislator’s colleague in the House of Representatives after Election Day, I am […]
By: Forest Rain – Oct. 2017 A regular man, Niv Nehemiah would have preferred to remain anonymous. His family takes no comfort in being told that he is a hero. They want him to heal, to stop being in so much pain. Two months after the terror attack in the Yavneh grocery store, where he […]
By: Cindy Annis – Oct. 2017 Elton John was born on March 25, 1947 in Pinner Middlesex, UK. His birth name is Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Dwight was raised by his grandparents in a council house until he turned six years old and his parents got married. Dwight found a friend in music. When his parents […]
By: Bill Cushing – Oct. 2017 From time to time, my column will feature questions asked by readers regarding the world of TV. Feel free to email me with any questions you may have about TV at BillsTVTalk@gmail.com, and I’ll do my best to answer you and may feature your question in a future column. […]
By: Rick Bellanti – Oct. 2017 I am one to talk, as I became addicted to diet sodas back in 1986, when I first started seeing a nutritionist at a local hospital with weekly nutritional counseling sessions. I’m sure they didn’t know then, what everyone knows now about the health risks with drinking diet […]
By: Kathy Runge – Oct. 2017 Why are most of our elections in Lawrence a choice between who you can’t stand the least? I can endorse almost no one in the November elections. Much to my surprise, it is Dan Rivera vs William Lantigua in the mayoral race. Boy, was I ever wrong about Lantigua. […]
By: Don Jarvis – Oct. 2017 For the third year in a row Preserving Newbury is hosting Wreaths Across America in Newbury, Massachusetts. Wreaths Across America is a national nonprofit organization founded in 2007, which continues to expand their annual wreath-laying ceremony. The wreath laying ceremony began at Arlington National Cemetery and now stretches to […]