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.

PDF of the October 2025 Valley Patriot ...

The City of Methuen is seeing a significant surge of state-level recognition and funding, positioning the community as a growing leader in housing development, workforce education, and ...

My recommendation for this month, ‘Platonic’ is the story of a fortysomething man and woman, college best friends, trying to maintain a platonic friendship amidst familial, marital, and career ups and ...

Methuen Superintendent of Schools Brandi Kwong’s resigned last week and anyone who reads this newspaper saw it coming a mile away. All the warning signs were there despite the majority of the School ...

After publishing last month’s column on Wealthy Habits, many great questions were raised. A common scenario surrounds what needs to be done to ensure legacy planning is prepared by the end of this new ...

North Andover is the home of Gerrymandering. The term itself is named for Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry due to redistricting in 1812 which gave rise to a meandering district of which Andover ...

In Lawrence and Methuen, families struggle with the high cost of medicine. Seniors cut pills in half, parents skip their own medication for their children, and families with chronic diseases worry ...

Earlier this month, we visited the Ipswich Veterans Memorial Park and discovered and had a chance to catch up with Larry Jordon, VFW Post 1092 Commander and Committee Chair for the Walkway Dedication ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a sci-fi movie. It is here, shaping jobs, schools, and daily life. As Vice Chair of the Senate’s Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet ...