BACK TO SCHOLARSHIP INDEX The Valley Patriot’s 22nd Anniversary BASH! Committee is pleased to announce our THIRD scholarship ...

Here we go again. Dracut’s most rejected perennial candidate—nine-time loser Phil Thibault—is running for Selectman. Cue the ...

Defendant possessed over 6,000 files of CSAM depicting children between one and eight years old BOSTON – A Lowell man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for receiving and ...

Defendant has prior federal conviction for heroin trafficking and assault BOSTON – A Dominican national unlawfully residing in Lawrence, Mass. pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to ...

For the last eight years a group called The Movement Family (TMF) has been hosting pop-up dinners every Wednesday night at ...

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I didn’t do much… a member of our Nation’s Silent Generation speaks…” When asked, Lawrence residents usually describe where they are from, by their neighborhood’s “nickname,” ...

Sheriff Kevin F. Coppinger and the Essex County Sheriff’s Department (ECSD) recently welcomed correctional leaders and community partners from across the country for a two-day ...

Massachusetts is the only state in the country where education is recognized as a fundamental right. That guarantee should ...

The State of our City is strong, and our future is even stronger. Lawrence has faced real challenges, economic pressure, ...

By Bill Cushing After a virus turns most of humanity into a hive mind, novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who is immune to ...

Before moving here, I lived in a neighborhood of strangers. Now I live in a community of friends who care.” says senior Wayne ...