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Oldest living resident of Rochester honored
ROCHESTER — Of nearly 5,700 residents, only one can hold the title of being the oldest living person to call Rochester home. That honor currently belongs to 102-year-old Maureen Riley, who was honored at a Rochester Council on Aging ceremony on Friday, July 12. Riley was photographed sitting below...
Search for new Rochester police chief nears close
ROCHESTER — The search for the next police chief for the town of Rochester should soon come to a conclusion. Depending on the availability of the final three candidates, the Rochester Select Board will hold 45-minute interviews on Monday, July 22 at Rochester Town Hall. Assisting the Rochester Select...
Sheriff Paul Heroux: Close New Bedford's Ash Street Jail, an 'outdated money pit'
DARTMOUTH — Posed with costly long-term repairs to the 136-year-old Ash Street Jail, Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux is renewing his call to close it and move all inmates to the Dartmouth house of correction. The jail's brick work was recently checked by a structural engineering firm. It found...
Inside look at the plans for State Pier
NEW BEDFORD — A marine industrial hub. A “boat-to-table” restaurant. A public fish auction hosting culinary seafood experiences. These are just a few of the proposals submitted in May to MassDevelopment to redevelop a central but “underutilized” strip of New Bedford’s waterfront: the State Pier. After many false starts and a bitter power struggle between state and city politicians, each side has expressed relief that the long-awaited overhaul is moving forward.
‘A lifeline’: Cape Cod bridge project to create more than 9,000 jobs in Massachusetts, Healey says
Planned construction work to replace two aging bridges that connect to Cape Cod will create more than 9,000 “high-quality” jobs in Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday. Healey and lawmakers gathered in Bourne to formally celebrate the nearly $1 billion in added federal funding for the replacement of the Sagamore Bridge on Cape Cod. Work on the Bourne Bridge is slated to happen after the Sagamore. The recent announcement brings the total funding for the massive bridge project to $1.72 billion, in addition to $700 million in state funding, Healey said. The $993 million awarded to the state Department of Transportation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Bridge Investment Program, Healey said.
Southcoast Health welcomes new providers for New Bedford, Fall River, Fairhaven, Wareham, Swansea
FAIRHAVEN, FALL RIVER, MIDDLETOWN, NEW BEDFORD, SWANSEA and WAREHAM — Southcoast Health is pleased to announce the not-for-profit community health system welcomed five new providers in June. These providers are joining various specialties including, Family Medicine, the Hospitalist Program, Internal Medicine, and Medical Weight Loss. Brian Bonenfant, PA |...
State Pier proposal: Train New Bedford kids for a future in offshore wind industry.
NEW BEDFORD — There are New Bedford kids in middle school today who will be retiring from the offshore wind industry decades from now. That's the prediction of Andrew B. Saunders, president of New Bedford Foss Marine Terminal LLC. ...
New Bedford’s Business Improvement District (BID) Petition Withdrawn
According to a letter New Bedford City Council Linda Morad released to the press, the organizers attempting to set up a Businesses Improvement District in downtown New Bedford has been withdrawn. You can read the letter here:
Middleboro mulls Cemetery Commission formation
MIDDLEBORO — Town Meeting voters could be asked whether to appoint a Cemetery Commission to oversee six historical cemeteries that have been refurbished and, in some cases, are available for burials. The discussion at the July 15 Select Board meeting followed a recommendation from a committee created by the...
City of New Bedford performs 33 clean-ups of blighted properties
“When landlords allow their properties to fall into disrepair and become blight on the neighborhood, the City may come in after necessary notice and clean the property, and then place a lien on it. In Fiscal 2024, the City performed 33 of these clean-ups and placed $31,763.34 worth of tax liens against the owners.
Town mulls $1.5 million in funding requests for community projects
A rehabilitation of the Lopes Park playground to bring it up to modern safety standards, renovations that preserve the look of the former East Wareham Elementary School, and more planting beds for the Damien’s Place Community Gardens are among $1.5 million dollars of requests for Community Preservation funding. The...
New Bedford Fire Dept. chaplain Mike Racine blesses the newest apparatus
“New Bedford Fire Department chaplain Mike Racine blessed the department’s newest apparatus this afternoon. We ordered it in the middle of the pandemic (before they became much more expensive), and it just arrived. This is a top model which will make our firefighters more effective at their work and...
Mayor Jon Mitchell Tells New Bedford Residents to ‘Cool Down’
What used to be the dog days of August are now the dog days of summer. Why? Because we realized it gets hot in July, too. Not only does it get hot, but it gets humid, too. Any good New Englander worth his salt knows that it's not the heat, it's the humidity.
A lack of volunteers is slowing down town government
On the reality show Project Runway, host and fashion model Heidi Klum tells the contestants: “In fashion, one day you are in, and the next day you are out.”. The same can now be said about me and my role as the town’s Community Preservation Committee chairman. I was appointed to the post on June 13 and submitted my resignation on June 28. I also resigned my position on the Historic District Commission.
Ground Broken on 180,000sf Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Taunton
Taunton, MA – The Taunton Development/MassDevelopment Corporation (TD/MDC), real estate investment firm Rhino Capital Advisors LLC, and state and local officials recently broke ground on a new 180,000sf advanced manufacturing facility located on lot BP2 at the Business Park at Myles Standish in Taunton. In 2022, TD/MDC sold the...
Register to join ‘The Chat: New Bedford housing activists’
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A year after Mayor Jon Mitchell vetoed a ballot question on rent stabilization, New Bedford continues to be short thousands of affordable housing units. Though Mitchell has embarked on a multi-faceted plan to grow the number of units, the increase is by hundreds a year instead of the needed thousands.
Longtime Flint community organizer Carlos Cesar may be eyeing run as Fall River mayor
FALL RIVER — The 2025 Fall River mayoral election is 16 months away, but it looks like one potential candidate is dipping his toe into campaign headwaters early. Carlos Cesar, the longtime president of the Flint Neighborhood Association and a vacation guide, filed a statement of organization to run for mayor with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance in May.
Mattapoisett Democratic Town Committee to hold Harbor Days voter drive
MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Democratic Town Committee will host a voter registration drive during Harbor Days weekend. The non-partisan voter registration drive will be Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the driveway of the Town Wharf General Store at 10 Water St.
Mattapoisett Republic Party to host candidate speakers at meeting
MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Republican Party will hold a meeting with two candidate speakers Thursday, July 18. The meeting will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus on 57 Fairhaven Road. The candidate speakers will be Ian Cain and Robert Antonellis. Both are seeking the Senate seat held by Elizabeth Warren, according to a press release from the Mattapoisett Republican Party.
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