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Stamp Out Hunger food drive fills the truck
By Beth David, Editor Postal service customers across the entire country left food by their mailboxes for the 30th annual “Stamp out Hunger” food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers, after a two-year hiatus due to COVID 19. In Fairhaven, letter carriers took the food to the USPS location on Pequod Road where volunteers… [Read More]
Fairhaven Select Board kills shade tree bylaw
By Beth David, Editor In a rather convoluted process over two meetings, the Fairhaven Select Board removed a Town Meeting article for a shade tree bylaw that the Planning Board has been working on since last September. At their 5/9 meeting, after a presentation by Town Planner Paul Foley and comments by Planning Board Chairperson Wayne… [Read More]
BPW hires beach parking attendants
By Mary Chasse, Neighb News Correspondent At its meeting on Monday, 5/9/22, the Fairhaven Board of Public Works hired summer help for West Island Town Beach, promoted an employee from the Highway Department, and discussed bat boxes to be built on the Fort Phoenix bike trail by a local Eagle Scout. The board first took… [Read More]
Fairhaven TV wins national award
Press Release Fairhaven TV received a 2022 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation. The awards program was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Proceeds go to the ACM Foundation which is… [Read More]
Grow Local!
By Christin Ritz for the Fairhaven Sustainability Committee Spring officially began back in March, but these past few weeks it finally feels like it! The birds are nesting, the bunnies are out in full force, and the grass is back to its needy self — requiring a mow on the regular. The weather hovers around that perfect… [Read More]
Hinckley pulls off big upset in Acushnet
By Beth David, Editor Newcomer to politics, Robert Hinckley, pulled off a big upset in Acushnet when he beat incumbent David Desroches, 391-338* for Selectboard in the 5/14/22 election. Mr. Hinckley’s only other attempt at office was two years ago when he ran as a write-in candidate starting just a few days before the election. This… [Read More]
Dear Frankie
Patron the Sniffer Dog Dear Frankie, I read your column last week and saw how upset you and your readers were about the dogs in Ukraine. I thought you would be interested in knowing about Patron, a brave little Jack Russell who serves in the Ukrainian Military. Before I tell you about him, I don’t… [Read More]
Letter_Thank You from Pantry
Thank you from the food pantry This letter of thanks goes out to all of the generous Fairhaven residents, who contributed non-perishable food to the 30th annual U.S. Postal food drive called “Stamp Out Hunger.” On Saturday May 14th, the hard working letter carriers did double duty by delivering the mail and picking up all… [Read More]
Letters_Hodgson Right to Keep Ash Street
Hodgson is right to keep Ash Street open It being an election year, it’s no surprise that a big issue I’ve seen in the media with regard to the Sheriff’s race is the Ash Street Jail and Regional Lock-Up in New Bedford. The jail opened in 1888. It’s more than a century old. It used… [Read More]
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