WALKING TOURS Change is in the air, and so we begin the fall season. Andover is one of the jewels of the north shore so let us check out some very interesting things to do and places to go. September 22, from 12-1:30 p.m., the Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS) invites interested residents to a […]
PAYING ATTENTION! By: Tom Duggan, (11-17-12) While Tea Party member are still in shock over the 2012 ass kicking we took in the polls on Election Day, now is the perfect time for a lecture on course correction. FAILED STRATEGIES Very high on the failed strategy list for the Tea Party is the way […]
Directed the City’s Housing Rehabilitation Program Coordinator to use grant funds to renovate the mayor’s friend’s home without following standard procedures The State Ethics Commission approved a Disposition Agreement (“Agreement”) in which Leominster (“City”) Mayor Dean Mazzarella (“Mazzarella”) admitted to violating G.L. c. 268A, the conflict of interest law, by directing a subordinate to rehabilitate […]
By: Diana Dizoglio One hopes that tough times will produce humility, strength of character, and eventually growth and change. As anyone who has faced a challenge knows, however, this process is A LOT easier said than done. When you are faced with losing your home, your car is broken down and you’ve lost your job–how […]
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL June, 2011 For the last few years The Valley Patriot has sporadically received information about prisoners from the Lawrence Jail (the “Farm”) on Marston Street escaping from the facility. Each time we are informed by law enforcement officials at other agencies that another escape has occurred, we wait. We wait, and […]
Tom Duggan – December, 2007 In 1995, a devastating fire ripped through the Malden Mills factory on Broadway in Methuen. Firefighters and police officers responded to the emergency from allover the Commonwealth. As the out-of-town public safety officials began to arrive at the scene, chaos ensued as it became nearly impossible to coordinate […]
By: Atty. Robert O’Koniewski – February, 2007 Recently a local Latino publication bemoaned in inflammatory racist terms the development of the Wood Mill by Robert Ansin. The writer speculated that the development would lead to an influx of 500-600 white residents into Lawrence. The writer was rather upset that this anticipated white migration into […]
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL November, 2005 Some Massachusetts legislators are always seeking newer and better ways to mug the Massachusetts taxpayers. The ongoing effort to allow the children of illegal aliens to attend state colleges at the same cost as legal residents, rather than at the higher out-of-state rate, is another example of flouting the […]