Posted in News on Jan 16th, 2009 View Comments
The Macaroni Grill will soon become The Olive Garden (File photo). Bon appetite Italian chain food lovers — Olive Garden is coming to Methuen at the site of closed Macaroni Grill. This just in from reporter J.J. Huggins: METHUEN — For months, people around town have been saying the popular Italian chain restaurant, Olive Garden, [...]
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Posted in News on Jan 15th, 2009 View Comments
If you’ve been following the proposal by Methuen Mayor Bill Manzi to increase fines for lighting up a joint, check out Manzi’s blog today. Manzi responds to an Eagle-Tribune editorial, which, in turn, responds to Manzi’s proposal to hike fines for smoking pot in public. A little dizzying (the back and forth, not the post), [...]
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Posted in News on Jan 14th, 2009 View Comments
Police vehicles surround a car stopped following an attempted armored car robbery this morning (Photo by Mike Labella) Eagle-Tribune reporter Mike LaBella is on the scene and reporting a Brinks armored car nose-to-nose with a Haverhill Police cruiser near Bank of America. The Eagle-Tribune has confirmed that shots were fired in what appears to be [...]
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Posted in News on Jan 14th, 2009 View Comments
Story will be up in a few minutes. We’ve confirmed that police pulled over a man suspected to be involved in a armored car robbery late this morning in which shots were fired. No reports of injuries.
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Posted in News on Jan 14th, 2009 View Comments
It appears the activity out of Haverhill a little bit ago may not be an actual chase, however, a car with Florida plates was stopped a few hundred feet over the line in Plaistow with several police vehicles surrounding it. We’ll tell you more as soon as we know.
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Posted in News on Jan 14th, 2009 View Comments
Word just coming into the Eagle-Tribune newsroom of a police chase in progress out of Haverhill. Details are sketchy and unconfirmed at the moment, but it appears the chase began somewhere near Lover’s Lane in Haverhill and there was buzz on the police scanner about the possibility of a gun. Reporters are following and we’ll [...]
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Posted in News on Jan 13th, 2009 View Comments
We adults have had our fair share of rambling about what Barack Obama’s election to the presidency means. The Eagle-Tribune received this essay from 12-year-old Maxine Harvey, of Methuen. She wrote it for a school assignment. Similarities and Differences of Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln As January 20th nears, I am looking forward to watching [...]
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Posted in News on Jan 12th, 2009 View Comments
Rep. Linda Campbell recently sent a letter to the governor with some information about the December ice storm to help Methuen in acquiring FEMA support. Included in the letter — which was shared with The Eagle-Tribune — were some interesting facts: Current exposure costs for the city of Methuen are likely to be over $400,000. [...]
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Posted in News on Jan 11th, 2009 View Comments
It’s more than just a fender-bender — two buses and as many as 50 other vehicles have collided in a chain-reaction crash on 93 North this morning. If you were there and got cell phone pictures, send ‘em here (nbombard@eagletribune.com) and we’ll post them. Photos here were shot by Eagle-Tribune Photographer Jan Seeger. There were [...]
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Posted in News on Jan 10th, 2009 View Comments
As bad as getting robbed feels, actually catching the little devils has got to feel pretty darn good. At least it seemed to for Alan Starr who slipped up to his second floor window and took pictures from his cell phone of two youths he noticed skulking around his apartment before they broke into it. [...]
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Noah R. Bombard is the new media editor for The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover. He is a former award-winning newspaper and magazine editor who has been covering news in Massachusetts since 1997.