Jo Toscano News Today

METHUEN — More than 115 million travelers are expected to head to families, friends and vacation during the 10-day, year-end holiday travel period, the second highest year-end travel forecast since

Jun. 4—METHUEN — "A cement city" is how Kim Atwood described the stretch of Merrimack Street from Interstate 495 to Pleasant Valley Street. Atwood, who works in a business along the busy stretch of state-owned road, also noted that there was no safe way to get across the road. "You can't walk across the street," she said. "You have to run." Atwood and her friend Jo Toscano had just come from a ...