Seasonal parking passes for the City of New Bedford’s public beaches are available, covering East Beach, West Beach and Fort Taber Park. Residents and non-residents must acquire a seasonal parking pass or pay a daily rate for parking. This summer’s beach season is June 23, 2018 through September 3, 2018. Seasonal parking passes are available… [Read More]
Boston Pride Parade is June 9
Celebrate LGBTQ pride with Boston, the largest pride parade in New England. The 45th annual Boston Pride Parade will be held on Sat., 6/9. Steps off at noon from Copley Square and ends at City Hall Plaza. For details on the parade route, spectator info., etc., visit http://www.bostonpride.org/parade/ The festival will be going on from… [Read More]
Celebrating Portuguese Fishing Heritage
The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center will host a variety of programs to explore and celebrate Portuguese heritage during the month of June. Resident artists Manny Vinagre and Manny Catulo will demonstrate their crafts, a film chronicling the dory fishing days of the White Fleet will be shown, and Fado singer Ana Vinagre will entertain… [Read More]
Opening on the Fairhaven Planning Board
The Fairhaven Planning Board currently has a vacancy following the recent resignation of one of the eight members. This elected position will be on the ballot in 2019, but in the interim, the Planning Board and Board of Selectmen must appoint someone to fill the vacancy until the next election. This appointment would end in… [Read More]
Memorial Day services honor Fairhaven’s veterans
By Beth David, Editor Fairhaven held its 150th Memorial Day service on Monday, 5/27, honoring veterans, and especially those who lost their lives fighting in the nation’s wars. Activities started with a parade along Main Street, from Center Street to Riverside Cemetery, where a ceremony was held. The parade stopped at the high school for the… [Read More]
Encampment educates and wows the crowds
The Fairhaven Village Militia, the Wareham Minutemen and the Fairhaven Office of Tourism held their annual spring Revolutionary War Encampment at Fort Phoenix on Saturday and Sunday, 5/26 & 27. Men and women in period dress lived as the soldiers from the revolutionary war lived, using the same tools and equipment that they would have… [Read More]
BPW tie: Recount missed ballots, Hoppy is winner, we think
By Beth David, Editor If we were at the Millicent Library, we could have blamed it on the resident ghost, but we were at Town Hall on Tuesday, 5/29, when Robert “Hoppy” Hobson was declared the winner more than a month after the election. The recount, however, raised more questions than it answered. Then he was… [Read More]
Harbormaster threatened by shellfisher; accident on 240
By Beth David, Editor Fairhaven Harbormaster Timothy Cox got help from the Fairhaven Police Department on Tuesday, 5/29, when a man who had dug some mussels allegedly threatened Mr. Cox with a knife at about 1:30 p.m. According to officials, Zachary Fournier, 26, of Pascaog, RI, was taken into custody and might face criminal charges. Mr…. [Read More]
Residents protest BMX pump track location
By Mary Macedo, Neighb News Correspondent At its 5/21 meeting, the Fairhaven Board of Public Works heard from residents about their concerns with the new BMX bike track slated to be installed at Macomber Pimental Field (MPF) on Bernese Street. BPW Chairperson Brian Wotton prefaced the discussion by saying he did not want to hear any… [Read More]
Bikeway Committee left out of BMX track plans
I was present at the BPW meeting Monday, 5/21, and as both a resident of the Macomber/Pimental Park neighborhood and a member of the town’s Bikeway Committee I have some observations about what transpired. While I applaud the BPW for their willingness to contribute to bike awareness in town, as evidenced by their work on… [Read More]
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