VIDEO BROOKE STREET SHOOTING ABOVE By: Tom Duggan – September 3, 2018 While most people were enjoying Labor Day with family and friends at cookouts or at the beach, police in the City of Lawrence were busy with an unusual amount of violence after a very quiet and low crime summer. LABOR DAY SHOOTING […]
In the early hours of Sunday morning Lawrence police and fire were called to Chester Street for a car crashed into a house. Within seconds of the first radio call, another emergency was dispatched that the car had caught fire and the fire was spreading to the house. As firefighters worked diligently to put out […]
Lawrence General Hospital has received a $10,000 Targeted Grant to Advance Women from the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation. The grant money will be used to support the hospital’s Latina Breast Health Outreach Program, a collaboration with the YWCA Northeastern Massachusetts in Lawrence. Since it began in 2011, this program has served more than 5,500 Latinas […]
By: Robin Desmet – August, 2018 Your neighbor’s cat has kittens and they are weaned and ready to be adopted. You hold one of the wiggling furballs for a minute and instantly you fall in love. You weren’t really looking for a kitten, but before you know it you find yourself at the pet store […]
The history of the Saints Alfio, Filadelfo and Cirino Society goes back to the early years of the twentieth century, Est.1921, and is as much a part of immigrant history as it is of the history of Lawrence, Massachusetts. The Saints that make up the name of the Society are three brothers martyred in the […]
August 18, 2018 In November of 2017, Detective O’Keefe of the Lawrence Police Department along with Special Agent Ryan Griffin of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives interviewed a confidential informant regarding an individual that was trafficking firearms to known Gangsta’ Disciples and Kings of Tenney (KOT) members in Lawrence and Methuen, MA. […]
Bread & Roses, a community kitchen in the heart of Lawrence, Massachusetts, is keeping their energy local with their new solar panels installed by ReVision Energy from North Andover. The solar array, completed this past month, is a 6.7-kilowatt system consisting of 46 rooftop panels that will generate approximately 23,000 kilowatt hours per year while […]
August 16, 2018 Lawrence Police were called to Prospect and Fulton Street shortly before midnight for a call of “shots fired”. When Police arrived at the scene they found a shell casing and live round both on the street at the intersection. Witnesses told police a man was talking to another man in a car […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn1-AoYWido&feature=youtu.be&h=380&w=280] By: Tom Duggan, Aug. 15, 2018 It was a tense hour and a half Wednesday morning at the corner of Bunker Hill and Lawrence Street as police responded to a man running into a building with a gun believed to be a stabbing suspect from yesterday. Lawrence Police called in the swat team, the fire department, […]
TICKETS HERE By: Tom Duggan – August, 2018 The Queen of Comedy Christine Hurley is making a rare stop in Lawrence this month at Salvatore’s restaurant in Lawrence on Friday August 24th. The Valley Patriot caught up with our old friend Christine for a quick interview about her local appearance. Tell people who Christine Hurley […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ThMrcGn-8o&feature=youtu.be&H=380&w=280] 8-9-18 BREAKING…. A 20 year old man was shot three times in the chest on East Haverhill and Berkeley St. in Lawrence late Thursday afternoon. He is identified as Emel Duran and goes by Alpo Traplord on the streets. The man was initially expected to live when he was transported to Lawrence General and sent […]
STATE POLICE ARRESTED A SUSPECT IN THIS CASE – CLICK HERE FOR FOLLOW UP STORY August, 8, 2018 Lawrence Police responded to a call for “shots fired” on Kingston St. in South Lawrence around 2:30pm Wednesday afternoon. The Valley Patriot was on the scene minutes later as police talked to witnesses, scoured the area, and […]
LAWRENCE – Today Thursday, August 2nd at approximately 12 PM, Lawrence Police Officers Carlos De Los Santos and Jose Gonzalez of Patrol Division responded to Wendy’s 55 Hampshire St, which is located directly behind the police station, for a report that a male had just brandished a firearm. Upon arrival, the Officers were met by a […]
HELP THE HOMELESS Every Wednesday night a volunteer group called “The Movement Family” serves a family style meal for the homeless at the Buckley Garage on Common Street in Lawrence. In the last five weeks The Valley Patriot has put out a call on Facebook looking for local business in the community to help with […]