Methuen News

Saying their building is no longer sufficient, officials at Broadway Care and Rehabilitation Center are shutting down, relocating 37 residents and trying to find new jobs for staff.

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting new editorial in the Boston Globe .

City councilors and Mayor William Manzi are joining residents in opposing T-Mobile's plan to install a cell phone tower at 24 Maplewood Ave.

Tickets are now available for Taste of the Festival, the gala opening night celebration of the Methuen Festival of Trees.

A construction company working on a Toll Brothers development off Pond Street has been hit with $197,000 in fines for unsafe working conditions at the residential site.

Voters unseated incumbent School Committeeman George Kazanjian in yesterday's election, but fellow incumbent Kenneth Henrick said he wants to give the seat he won to Kazanjian.

Voters ousted City Council President Deborah Quinn and East District Councilor Joseph Leone yesterday but re-elected the six other incumbents.

State Rep. William Lantigua was elected mayor of Lawrence tonight, becoming the first elected Hispanic mayor in the history of the state.

Turnout was strong in a number of precincts this morning, as voters headed to the polls to pick candidates for mayor, city council and school committee.

Follow election results live Tuesday evening with The Eagle-Tribune staff online on Eagle-Tribune TV.

In the race for mayor in Lawrence, one candidate has been willing to face residents and his opponent in public forums and debates, ready to answer any and all questions put to him.

There's a mayoral election and contested races for City Council and School Committee, but City Clerk Christine Touma-Conway said the ballot question asking people if they want the city charter to be reviewed is the item most likely to boost voter turnout on Tuesday.

A Methuen man is being held without bail on charges he threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and damage her home late Thursday.

Methuen, Lawrence and state police narcotics officers conducting a drug sweep arrested a man peddling fake heroin Wednesday morning, said Methuen police Lt.

Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone and state Sen. Steven Baddour, D-Methuen, will testify at a hearing Tuesday on behalf of a bill they say will reform the sexually dangerous persons statute five days after a convicted sex offender with a lengthy record in Massachusetts and New Hampshire allegedly attacked a woman at a Boston hospital.

Swine flu appears to have hit the Merrimack Valley, sickening a growing number of children and adults throughout the region last week just as a small number of doses of the vaccine began trickling into public health agencies.

A Lawrence man faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer after he drove his car into a detective's undercover cruiser following a drug bust near the Merrimack Car Wash and Laundry on Burnham Road.

Two of four men arrested in connection with an Oct. 8 baseball bat attack on a 26-year-old man were ordered held without bail for 90 days yesterday after a dangerousness hearing in Lawrence District Court.

Wherever there are giant balls of twine or the world's largest anything, there are tourists dying to pose next to them.

Rosa Martinez survived the bloody civil war in El Salvador and came to the United States 20 years ago.