Defendant allegedly impersonated another Chinese national and voted in the 2024 presidential election under victim’s name sun_-_complaint.pdf BOSTON – A Chinese national residing in Andover, MA., was arrested yesterday for submitting a fraudulent voter registration and ballot in the 2024 presidential election in the name of another Chinese national. The defendant also allegedly submitted two […]
Reflect on a Lifetime of Love and Family Andover, Mass. – Stone Hill at Andover, a Northbridge senior living community offering Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Avita Memory Care, recently celebrated a remarkable milestone as residents Barbara “Bobbie” and Paul Curley marked their 65th wedding anniversary surrounded by family, friends, and fellow residents. On July 19, […]
<<BACK TO SCHOLARSHIP INDEX The Valley Patriot’s 22nd Anniversary BASH! Committee is pleased to announce our THIRD scholarship recipient from our newest scholarship on our Valley Patriot BASH! Charity Program named the Prime Insurance Services Andover High School Scholarship to be given out at the Lawrence Elks Club on March 27, 2026. This scholarship was […]
By: John Cuddy 2-26 “I didn’t do much… a member of our Nation’s Silent Generation speaks…” When asked, Lawrence residents usually describe where they are from, by their neighborhood’s “nickname,” Carletonville, Clover Hill, Back Bay, or Prospect Hill. Others will give you their Parish, Holy Rosary, Holy Trinity, St Peter and St Paul, or St […]
<<BACK TO SCHOLARSHIP INDEX The Valley Patriot’s 22nd Anniversary BASH! Committee is pleased to announce our second scholarship recipient from our newest scholarship on our Valley Patriot BASH! Charity Program named the Prime Insurance Services Andover High School Scholarship to be given out at the Lawrence Elks Club on March 27, 2026. This scholarship […]
<<BACK TO SCHOLARSHIP INDEX The Valley Patriot’s 22nd Anniversary BASH! Committee is pleased to announce Christine Preston as the very first recipient of our newest scholarship on our Valley Patriot BASH! Charity Program named the Prime Insurance Services Andover High School Scholarship to be given out at the Lawrence Elks Club on March 27, 2026. […]
Defendants allegedly kidnapped and held victim for three days in a basement BOSTON –Two alleged members of the Lawrence Trinitarios gang have been charged with a May 2024 kidnapping in Andover, Mass.. During the alleged kidnapping, the suspects wore law enforcement jackets and held the victim at a location for multiple days. Isiah Medina, a/k/a […]
A crowd of more than 500 people packed into the Lawrence Elks Club on Andover Street on Friday, March 28th for the Valley Patriot’s 21st Anniversary BASH Scholarship and Award Night. Readers of The Valley Patriot raised more than $67,291 by the night of the event to help six local high school students pay […]
By: John Cuddy – 2/25 Lawrence’s Eugene Smith attended Searles High School, while growing up with his three brothers in the city. Two of his brothers served in the US Navy, the third in the US Army. As a young man, Eugene wanted to serve our nation in the US Military as well. Note to […]
There is something about WOW! Magic that captures the imagination. If you did not attend last month’s Christmas at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, you missed the Event of a Lifetime! Beginning at 5:00pm hundreds of Guests, Colleagues, and Visitors poured into our lobby at Campanelli to witness a transformation not only of the physical […]
11-24 Jerazyus Miranda, a 17 year old Lawrence native, is a senior from Greater Lawrence Tech who won 14th place at CAC’S Saturday October 26th, with the time of 20:26.9 and received a medal. Gr. Lawrence Tech went on to the championship meet at Wrentham’s Development Course. Jerazyus Miranda came in top 23 but first […]
By: John Cuddy – 9/24 Most Americans have heard of World War I Medal of Honor recipients, such as the US Army’s Alvin York from Pall Mall, Tennessee, and Eddie Rickenbacker, a US Army Signal Corps Ace, who was a race car driver before the war. But many of us in the Merrimack Valley are […]
Tactor trailer truck stopped with 32 kilos of suspected methamphetamine and over 400 kilos of suspected cocaine worth over $10 million BOSTON – Two Indian nationals were arrested on July 29, 2024, in connection with the distribution of controlled substances. Simranjit Singh, 28, and Gusimrat Singh, 19, of Fresno, Calif. were each charged with one […]
By: Katie Cook – 4-24 “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito” Betty Reese joked. You may think that you are only one person and that you don’t have the power or the money to make a big difference in the […]
By: John Cuddy – 7/23 Lawrence’s James George Hajjar, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the Plains neighborhood in Lawrence, a community of Lebanese, Sicilian, and Irish, a few blocks northwest of Campagnone Common, named after three Lawrence brothers, who were killed in the Normandy Campaign of World War II. James […]