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 ...

EDITORS NOTE: The new campaign finance laws dictate that cities like Lawrence with a population of more than 65,000 people must file their campaign finance reports monthly on the year of an election.

The proposed federal budget for FY26 could bring some of the most challenging moments our community has faced in years. Many friends, neighbors, and constituents have reached out to share their ...

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 ...

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

BOSTON – A Lawrence man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Little did I know that my previous story about US Army Medic Steve Bird from Groveland, and his brave efforts to treat the wounded on the battlefields of Vietnam in 1968, would lead me to this feature ...

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 ...

Last week I made a Facebook post about the woke political agenda of Methuen School Committee member Laurie Keagan. Among the many things I exposed about Keagan was her woke agenda for the kids of ...

PDF of the October 2025 Valley Patriot ...

After Lawrence City Councilor Fidelina Santiago was convicted and sentenced this week to six months in prison for stealing mail-in ballots and committing voter fraud in the 2023 city council race, ...