By: Jeff Katz – May, 2013 Just in case anyone needed a reminder that we are still a nation at war, they should have gotten that message loud and clear on Patriot’s Day 2013. On April 15, two bombs were deployed which rocked the finish line of the venerable Boston Marathon. What followed these […]
***FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE*** Friday at around 1:30 p.m. Massachusetts State Trooper David DiCrescenzo from the State Police Barracks in Sturbridge stopped a Nissan Maxima bearing New York registration plates, for a lane violation on Route 84 westbound in the town of Sturbridge. During the initial encounter with the operator, Trooper DiCresenzo made several […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbJTHkdBMc&list=UUHvNZOou9CK-SsTZ_B3BjMg&index=220&h=320] One of Cameron D’Ambrosio’ s Youtube videos By: Tom Duggan – May 1, 2013 Methuen Police Chief Joe Solomon told The Valley Patriot this afternoon that Carmen D’Ambrosio sent a text message and posted terrorist threats on social media. “We took this very seriously,” Chief Solomon said. “He posted a threat in the […]
By: Tom Weaver – April 2013 We are blessed that the US Senate has gangs – groups of like-minded individuals that unite across party lines in an effort to achieve compromise. We have had health care gangs, budget gangs and now immigration gangs. Apparently, the only way to compromise between those that want more government […]
By: Justess Jacobson – April 2013 The Valley Patriot bestowed the Officer Tom Duggan, Sr., Law Enforcement Award at the newspaper’s annual Anniversary BASH, held in March each year. This award will go to one civilian and one police officer or firefighter every year. My grandfather, Officer Tom Duggan believed that it was the […]
BOSTON, MA – “In Deval Patrick’s Massachusetts,” observed Representative Jim Lyons, “terrorists are granted more privacy protection than the police, fire, and first responders who risk their lives for us. “If this were not such sad and tragic moment in our state history,” Lyons continued, “this action by Governor Patrick would almost be considered […]
FROM SATE REP JIM LYONS Boston, MA -“This is the most disgraceful example,” said Representative Jim Lyons, “of those who break the rules being subsidized by decent, hard-working, taxpaying families – families who follow the rules.” Rep. Lyons, an Andover Republican, was referring to news reports exposing some of the taxpayer-funded benefits provided to the […]
By: Tom Duggan – April 23, 2013 Just one day before the Boston Marathon bombing, Malden Taxi Driver Jim Duggan (no relation) says he drove the two Boston Marathon bombers in his taxi and that when he tried to assist one of them with their backpacks, “the older one got angry and pushed me out […]
WILL BE CHARGED WITH METHUEN BANK ROBBERY OTHER CHARGES TO FOLLOW By: Tom Duggan – April 23,, 1013 (7:44pm) A multi-jurisdictional task force made up of local law enforcement in the Merrimack Valley and the Boston Office of the FBI captured the Merrimack Valley Bandit on Tuesday. According to photos the bandit is responsible […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wgEVi_9LM] By: Tom Duggan – April 14, 2013 The Merrimack Valley Bandit struck again twice this weekend. The first robbery occurred at a TD Bank North in Dracut on Saturday evening. The second robbery occurred Sunday night at the Rt 110 Convenience Store on Merrimack Street in Methuen. “He was brandishing a […]
$10,000 Reward Offered for Information Leading to Arrest Banks robbed in Lawrence, Methuen, Dracut and Groveland BOSTON – A task force of Massachusetts law enforcement agencies is seeking the public’s assistance to identify a bank robber allegedly responsible for seven armed bank robberies in northeastern Massachusetts since February. The “Merrimack Valley Bandit” is considered […]
BOSTON – This Department of Public Health is in desperate need of top-to-bottom reform,” said Rep. Jim Lyons. “The DPH acts like bureaucratic bullies, when it deals with families and school children,” Lyons noted about the state agency mandating that so-called “BMI Fat Letters” single-out particular students. “At the same time, this bureaucracy has manifestly […]
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) penalized Triumvirate Environmental (Merrimack), Inc. $17,250 for hazardous waste management violations found at the company’s hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facility at 263 Howard Street in Lowell. On September 21, 2011, a MassDEP inspection found: a double-stacked pallet of hazardous waste that was not stored […]
In an effort to break through the white noise of news media bias, The Valley Patriot accepts first hand accounts of local events to give our readers a chance to see things through the eyes of the people who are there. By Paul Boulanger – February 22,, 2013 An Email from Massachusetts Firearm School […]
North Andover Police are conducting “active shooter” training all week during school vacation at the middle school. All officers are being trained, videoed and critiqued. Exact firearms replicas are being used so the officers are accustomed to their carried weapons.