While Lawrence, Methuen, Haverhill, and Lowell voters are all going to the polls on November 4th to choose local leaders, ...

Methuen School Committee member Kristen Maxwell says she called the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Friday to notify ...

Army appointed his father Special Master to oversee home sale Former Probate and Family Court Associate Justice Lawrence Army Jr. has paid a $4,000 civil penalty for violating the conflict of interest ...

PDF of the September 2025 Valley Patriot Print Edition ...

Providing housing is a major concern regionally: for the individual seeking accommodations, for the property owner leasing apartments, for the builder to have adequate housing stock to sell. Local ...

What a great month it has been on Beacon Hill, filled with continued progress for the Commonwealth. The Massachusetts House of Representatives tackled several important issues impacting communities ...

Passing a terrible law usually results in citizens protesting to their elected officials, demanding something be done about it. The legislators then write up a bunch of bills to amend or even repeal ...

Alyssa O’Donnell served and deployed in the United States Army as a rocket and cannon launcher, as well as a recruiter, helping young people who served access benefits earned in the Army, to further ...

Sue Riccio is the new Director of the Methuen Senior Center. She has been work-ing there for many years and truly loves it. She started out in 1998 as the Activity Coordinator and held that position ...

Detective Renée Ballard, recently ousted from the Robbery and Homicide Division for blowing the whistle on a popular cop, finds herself sequestered in the basement, in command of LAPD’s newly formed ...

The animals are safe in Dracut. Town Meeting stared down the great chicken crackdown of 2025, sending it straight to the compost pile. Voters cut the head off a proposed bylaw change so silly, so ...

A prominent theme in the personal finance space this month is concern over the rising costs of various kinds of insurance. Specifically, the question we have been hearing the most is what impacts ...