By Beth David, Editor In our 4/2 issue, we showed you some pictures of family and friends of Armand Patnaude, who was feeling a bit down in the dumps as he lived on hospice and could have no visits from family and friends at Our Lady’s Haven because of restrictions due to the COVID-19 crisis.  This… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker extended the statewide restric­tions due to COVID-19 to May 18 at a briefing on Tuesday, 4/28/20. As of Tuesday, 4/28, the state had 58,302 confirmed cases, 3,150 deaths, and a total of 254,500 tests perform across the state. Of the 3,150 deaths, 1,810 have been residents of long-term… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor It’s not just nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities that won’t let people through the doors. Assisted living complexes are also not allowing visitors to their residents. But that did not stop Ruth Niemcyk’s family from giving her all the trappings and fixin’s of a birthday party at Atria in Fairhaven.  Ruth turned… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Everyone is struggling with accepting the “new normal” brought on by the COVID-19 crisis and the restrictions we are all living under. But when seven-year-old London and her sister, five-year-old Penelope had so many questions of “why” and “how come” and “what ifs,” their mother, Ashley Hennessy, found she could not answer… [Read More]

“With all the bad news going around, here’s something to make you smile,” wrote Fairhaven Animal Control Officer Terry Cripps on the Fairhaven Animal Shelter Facebook page. All three baby ducks were rescued and reunited with their mother.  The three ducklings fell into a drain at Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven on 4/22/20. A woman who… [Read More]