Silva Says Support Your Local Newspaper The Fairhaven town election was  Tuesday, June 9th and polls closed at 8:00 p.m. Election results were first available at the Fairhaven Neighbor­hood News (on-line) Wednesday night and then printed copies Thursday morning. (Thanks Beth.)  There was no mention that I could find in The Standard Times about Fairhaven… [Read More]

Thank You to the Fairhaven Historical Commission On behalf of the Delano Kindred, I thank the Town of Fairhaven, es­pecially Doug Brady of the Historical Commission, who championed the effort to replace the deteriorating Delano Cemetery sign with a new bold one. (See FNN 5/28/26.) Thanks also to Brian Messier, Historical Commission member, and Keith… [Read More]

The Job Will Simply Not Get Done Those who voted against the override, when asked about the loss of the economic development office, like to say, “Oh, volunteers will do that.” Two problems: First, they’re ignor­ing and devaluing the professionalism, expertise, and connections that Alyssa Botelho brought to the job. Second, no one is saying, “Oh,… [Read More]

Watch for Trash Fee Increase Now that the override has been defeated look for a sizeable increase in the trash fee. There was a move afoot prior to the actual vote for the town to get your money either through the override or a sizeable increase in the trash fee.  Watch for a trash fee… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor The voters have spoken (well, some of them anyway) and the override attempt failed (see page 12). A couple of new faces are in, and a few familiar faces are in new roles.  We had about a 24% turn­out in Fairhaven and everyone says that’s great. I just looked back and… [Read More]