Spruce up your landscape by joining the Arbor Day Foundation in August. Everyone who joins the Arbor Day Foundation with a $10 donation will receive 10 free Norway spruce trees or 10 white flowering dogwood trees through the Foundation’s Trees for America campaign. The trees will be shipped postpaid between October 15 and December 10, depending… [Read More]
RMV Drop Off
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has begun to pilot drop-off registration and title services at the Braintree Service Center, with additional locations to follow beginning Monday, 8/10. These Registration Drop Off Centers will be dedicated to performing a number of vehicle-based registration and title services for both commercial and individual customer transactions on… [Read More]
Art Museum to Reopen
It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the reopening of the New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! galleries and shop in accordance with Phase 3 of Governor Baker’s Reopening Massachusetts Plan. The Art Museum will open its doors to all visitors starting Saturday, August 15th with restrictions in place to maintain the health and safety… [Read More]
Artmobile
New Bedford Art Museum/ Artworks! is excited to provide the artMOBILE for its 25th summer! The artMOBILE vans will be rolling around New Bedford through August 21. Operating much like a bookmobile, the two purple vans, each with two experienced art educators, engage children with fun educational art activities at community sites across New Bedford…. [Read More]
From the Editor 8/6/20
We have some sad news this week. Shirley Hunter, a very active, long time resident of West Island died this week after a fierce battle with cancer (see obituary on page 18). Shirley was involved in a whole bunch of stuff on the island and with the West Island Improvement Association. I could list a… [Read More]
Overpass flag will honor all branches
Submitted The Charles F. Albaugh Memorial American Flag remains proudly displayed on Main Street in Fairhaven at the I-195 overpass and will now include periodic displays of other branches of the military. Sponsored and erected by the North Fairhaven Improvement Association through the efforts of then president Bob Cormier, this flag pole and site were… [Read More]
Haworth voted in as new BOH member
By Jean Perry, Neighb News Correspondent The vacant seat on the Fairhaven Board of Health was filled on 7/30 in a split vote during a joint meeting of the BOH and the Selectboard. Among the five candidates, both BOH members picked Geoffrey Haworth, a home improvement and landscaping business owner, former Selectboard member and former Board… [Read More]
COVID-19 update: Rhode Island added to travel restrictions
By Beth David, Editor Rhode Island was taken off the list of states with no travel restrictions to Massachusetts on Tuesday. RI had previously been included in the rest of New England States, New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii as being exempt from travel restrictions in Mass. After an uptick in COVID-19 cases hit the state,… [Read More]
Matthew Lovegrove memorial bench vandalized
By Beth David, Editor “I’ve never been there when somebody wasn’t sitting there,” said Darlene Lovegrove, Matthew Lovegrove’s mother, about the memorial bench for him at the little fishing pier off the Little Bay extension to the bike path in Fairhaven. She said the bench was destroyed last Wednesday, 7/29, and they used the back of… [Read More]
Mayflower II riding out storm in the harbor
Locals got a nice surprise this week when the Mayflower II stopped by for a visit. The replica of the famous ship that brought European settlers to the new land docked at State Pier in New Bedford harbor to ride out tropical storm Isaias on Tuesday, 8/4/20. A few people got up close and were… [Read More]
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