Greens Sale The sixth Annual Mattapoisett Woman’s Club Holiday Greens Sale will be held on Saturday, December 6th at the “What the Taco” porch & parking lot on route 6 in Mattapoisett, from 9am until 1pm, or until items are sold out. In past years, all items have sold out in a couple of hours… [Read More]

The Acushnet Lions Club and the Rivers’ End Cafe, proudly sponsor their annual Toy & Food Drive/ Motorcycle Run on Sun., 11/30. $10 or unwrapped toy donation (no stuffed animals please), and non-perishable food donation gets you in.  Now accepting food and toys at the Rivers End Cafe, 7 Tarkiln Hill Road, Acushnet. Starts at… [Read More]

Thurs., 12/4, 6 p.m., at New Bedford Whaling Museum Cook Memorial Theater, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford. Tickets: $10–$20. Visit https://www.whalingmuseum.org/ Sailing Towards My Father is a one-man play, starring Stephen Collins, about Herman Melville (1819–1891), the American author best known for his whaling epic Moby-Dick. Written and directed by Carl A. Rossi, the… [Read More]

A Very Merry Maker’s Market A rotating lineup of local small businesses like jewelers, bakers, ceramic artists, woodworkers, tarot readers, and more! Come shop, support local and get in the holiday spirit! Located inside Shimmer’s new community space, 185 Union Street, New Bedford. Sat., 11/29, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.; Thurs., 12/11, 4–7 p.m; Sat., 12/13, Noon… [Read More]

Tues., 12/2, from 6–8 p.m., The Last Round Bar & Grille, 908 Purchase St., New Bedford   Our guest Seth Lederman, MD, CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, will discuss “No Fairytale: The Story Behind a New FDA-Approved Fibro­myalgia Drug.” Tonix owns & operates a biologicals manufacturing facility in the New Bedford Business Park.  In August, Tonix… [Read More]

The Art of Seeing: Natural Heritage of Fairhaven. Mon., 12/1, 6:30—8:00 PM in the UUSF Auditorium at 102 Green Street, Fairhaven, MA, 02719 Join local artist John Vliet for a thought-provoking talk on creativity as a source of personal agency in an increasingly impersonal world. Drawing from his practice of sketching and sharing scenes of the Fairhaven… [Read More]

Tree Lighting/Sing Along/Parade Mayor Jon Mitchell announced that the City’s holiday season will kick off on Saturday, Dec. 6 with the tree lighting Downtown and continue on Sunday the 7th at Clasky Common.  City of New Bedford Downtown Tree Lighting Sat., 12/6, 6–6 p.m., Downtown New Bedford, Pleasant Street in front of Main Library. Join… [Read More]

The weekend of festivities has become a beloved holiday occasion as well as an important link to our nation’s history and heritage. The celebration of Thanksgiving becomes history-brought-to-life as Pilgrims, Native Americans, Soldiers, Patriots, and Pioneers proudly climb out of the history books and onto the streets of Plymouth Sat., Nov. 22, 10 a.m. to… [Read More]

Bridgewater State University professor Dr. Paul Robinson will discuss the 80th anniversary  of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan and, three days later, on Nagasaki Japan, Sun., 11/23, at 2 p.m., at the Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum and Veterans Memorial, 1000C South Rodney French Blvd., New Bedford.  Three days after the… [Read More]