Elizabeth Warren on Abortion Litmus Test – Methuen Officials Endorse Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren on Abortion Litmus Test – Methuen Officials Endorse Elizabeth Warren

Warren Appears at Mann Orchards in Methuen   [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqp8WWSnD7c&feature=youtu.be&w=380&h=260]   By: Tom Duggan – October 23, 2012 PHOTO GALLERY OF EVENT Methuen Elected officials and dignitaries from across the Valley held a press conference today at Mann Orchards in Methuen to endorse Harvard University Professor, Elizabeth Warren, candidate for United State Senate. Warren was endorsed […]

Brown: Warren Wrong on Iran, Israel – Challenges her to “Stop Scaring Women

Brown: Warren Wrong on Iran, Israel – Challenges her to “Stop Scaring Women

Video – Photos – Story Victims Right’s Advocate Endorses Brown in North Andover   [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHjp8sN53Ds&feature=youtu.be&w=480&h=360]   Photo Gallery of today’s event By: Tom Duggan – October 23, 2012 United Sates Senator Scott Brown visited North Andover again this afternoon, this time at Stachy’s Pizza. accepting the endorsement of Laurie Meyers, president of Community Voices, a […]

More Legislators Call For Takeover of Lawrence, Removal of Lantigua

More Legislators Call For Takeover of Lawrence, Removal of Lantigua

Legislators Blame Deval Patrick Administration for Not Addressing the Lawrence Crisis By: Tom Duggan – October, 18, 2012 More Legislators on Beacon Hill are stepping forward this week to say they are tired of the state tax payers footing the bill for what Andover State Rep. Jim Lyons has called “an ongoing criminal enterprise” in […]

Legislators Stand With The Valley Patriot on Public Records Law

Legislators Stand With The Valley Patriot on Public Records Law

Local Legislators to File Bill Adding Penalties to Public Records Law Violators   By: Tom Duggan – October 17, 2012 (2:30pm) TOWN HALL, NORTH ANDOVER, MA  During a press conference today endorsing Karin Rhoton for the 14th Essex Rep. seat, Rhoton, Senator Minority Leader Bruce Tarr (R) Gloucester, Representative Brad Hill (R) Ipswich, and Representative Brad Jones […]

Rep. Lyons Calls Lawrence an “Ongoing Criminal Enterprise”

Rep. Lyons Calls Lawrence an “Ongoing Criminal Enterprise”

Local Officials Come Forward Calling for Lantigua’s Removal   By: Tom Duggan – October, 2012   In the wake of two more members of Lawrence Mayor Willie Lantigua’s administration being indicted last month, local officials are calling for Lantigua’s resignation and a complete state takeover of the entire city and one state representative calling he […]

Toohey Caught Cheating at League Forum – Rhoton Snubbed

Toohey Caught Cheating at League Forum – Rhoton Snubbed

By: Tom Duggan – October 16, 2012 PHOTO GALLERY OF EVENT The Haverhill League of Women Voters held what they called a candidate forum last night among candidates for State Representative and the 1st Essex Senate District seat. Before the debate was over, however, several members of the audience walked out in protest when the […]

VALLEY PATRIOT VIDEO: MA 1st Essex Senate Candidates Talk about Secure Communities

VALLEY PATRIOT VIDEO: MA 1st Essex Senate Candidates Talk about Secure Communities

    The Secure Communities program allows local police to send fingerprints of suspected illegal aliens to the Federal Government for an immigration check when they are arrested for other crimes. It does not allow law enforcement to pull people over for suspected immigration violations, nor does it allow racial profiling. Massachusetts First Essex Senate […]

Lawrence at a crossroad: The “four Rs” of public policy

Lawrence at a crossroad: The “four Rs” of public policy

  By: Joe D’Amore  October, 2012 With headlines announcing indictments of key public officials in Lawrence the city has reached an historic crossroad which will define its emergence or decline from the current state of turmoil. At stake is the well- being of the city and all the surrounding communities as results that stem from […]

Eagle Tribune Identifies Police Source on Drug/Gun Raid

Eagle Tribune Identifies Police Source on Drug/Gun Raid

PAYING ATTENTION OPINION EXTRA Tom Duggan (10/12/12) Last month the Eagle Tribune published a story about a police raid on drug gang in Lawrence. In that story, written by none other than Mark Vogler who reported; “Yesterday, Lawrence Police Chief John Romero hailed the concerned neighbors as heroes after the operation, which began at 6 […]

Join The Valley Patriot in Support of Homecoming 2012

Join The Valley Patriot in  Support of Homecoming 2012

Knights in Training Kids’ Run (under 12) -Awards and raffle prizes! NEW! Chip Timing provided by North Shore Timing, runners and walkers are welcome. All proceeds to benefit the North Andover Athletic Association. “Supporting North Andover Athletics for over 50 Years!” MISSION- The North Andover Athletic Association’s mission is to support and enhance athletics as […]

Warrior Dash

Warrior Dash

 By: Christine Prescott – October, 2012 The Warrior Dash is held annually throughout the world. It’s an intense 5k running event held on the most challenging rugged terrain. The race also includes obstacle courses, mud,) crawling under barb wire and fire leaping events. The event is meant to challenge every single ounce of endurance and […]

Unresolved Thyroid and Hashimoto’s

Unresolved Thyroid and Hashimoto’s

    By: Dr. Jin Sung – October, 2012 According to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, more than 27 million Americans suffer from thyroid dysfunction, half of who go undiagnosed by conventional medicine. Of the detected cases of hypothyroidism, 90 percent are due to an autoimmune disorder called Hashimoto’s disease, in which the immune […]