HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?

Yesterday (March 17, 2010) at 11:48 am, the Methuen Co-Operative Bank, 243 Broadway, was robbed. The male robber is described as in his 20s, 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-11, Caucasian, heavy-set with a reddish-blond beard and moustache. He was wearing a white baseball cap with no markings, dark blue or black coat with a burgundy-colored shirt underneath, blue jeans and white sneakers.
The robber handed a note to a teller, stating that he had a gun, and fled the bank on foot with an unspecified amount of cash. A police officer, who was working a road detail a few hundred feet away from the bank, responded immediately. A search was conducted by Methuen Police K-9 Officer Christine Nicolosi, K-9 German Shepard Rikoh and other Methuen officers. As the search for the alleged armed robber started to approach the area of the Tenney School on Pleasant Street, the school administration conducted a lock-down there as a precaution. If anyone has any information as to who the robber might be, please call Detective Michael Blanchette at (978) 983-8802.

Councilor Phil Lahey eyes state rep job

Methuen Central District Councilor Phil Lahey has told MethuenLife he intends to pull papers on Monday, March 8 to run for state rep. Now in his fifth year as city councilor, Lahey is eyeing the post held by Linda Dean Campbell. Lahey would also be up against Al DiNuccio who unsuccessfully challenged Mayor Bill Manzi last fall (see post below).
"I'm going to go out and get signatures and see what kind of response I get," said Lahey, 61. "It's hard running against Linda Dean Campbell because I like her. I think she's a little too nice, too timid and too Democratic. I think she falls in line with politicians who put the needs of the state before the city of Methuen."
Lahey is retired supervisor at the Methuen DPW. He worked there 31 years. He is in the process of gathering advice from councilors Pat Uliano and Larry Giordano and former state rep candidate Mike Hennessy.
Self described as "the most unpolitically correct person I've ever met" and not one to be intimidated, Lahey said that if elected his biggest fights would be for funding for public safety and education.
He differentiates himself from DiNuccio: "He's going to say a lot of things that he'll do taht he can't. He'll shoot his mouth off, but it's unrealistic. I'll go into Boston and be very outspoken. If there's money going somewhere that it shouldn't, I'll scream about it."