Acushnet We are very pleased to announce a regular schedule of Covid testing beginning this week: • Fridays (beginning 1/29) from 10 a.m.–noon in the parking lot behind the Council on Aging (59 South Main Street) using our trailer (see page 12) • Saturdays (beginning 1/30) from 9 a.m.–noon at the elementary school gym This schedule will be… [Read More]

Press Release While COVID-19 still impacts us in 2021, the New Bedford LGBTQ Winter Film Series still lives on! Thanks to funding and support provided by Mass Humanities, the Film Series will run digitally this year. Fans are suggested to watch the films prior, which are available on most stream­ing services and platforms. There are… [Read More]

Join Science Cafe and other volunteers for a trash clean-up on Palmer Island on Saturday Jan. 30th, from 12:45 to 4:45 pm. Bring gloves; bags will be provided. Park at end of Gifford Street (off Rt 18) in parking lot & walk out to island. You’ll be helping to clean up a lovely New Bedford… [Read More]

Cape Ann Museum presents Ladies of the Lens: Martha Hale Harvey and Eleanor Parke Custis, 27 Pleasant St., Gloucester, www.capeannmuseum.org  Focusing on photography in the Museum’s collection offers the opportunity to look more closely at two women artists who explored that medium while working on Cape Ann. Although their lives overlapped in time, the rapid… [Read More]

The New Bedford LGBTQ Winter Film Series is back with the same great content and a new virtual format! Bessie, starring the Emmy-nominated Queen Latifah, is first up on January 31. For more information on the whole program of events, follow The New Bedford LGBTQ Winter Film Series on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nblgbtqfilmseries To learn more about… [Read More]

An Audience with Susanna White Winslow 2 p.m. Sat., 1/23  Meet Mayflower passenger Susanna White Winslow and discover the harrowing stories about her life in England and the challenges of building a new life in a world unknown to her. Susanna was the great grandmother of William White who settled in Westport and lived in… [Read More]

The Fairhaven Fire/EMS depart­ment, in cooperation with the Fair­haven Board of Health, will be offering a FREE Covid Test Clinic EVERY SATURDAY for Fairhaven residents and town employees until further notice. Next Dates: Sat., 1/23, 30, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Fairhaven Recrea­tion Center, 227 Huttleston Ave. WALK-IN ONLY, NO appoint­ments. Visit https://www.fairhaven-ma.gov/fire-department-ems-ema/news/free-covid-19-testing-fairhaven to get… [Read More]

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New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center’s Dock-u-mentaries series continues with the virtual event, Swimming Upstream: A Book Talk by Mike Foley.  This program will take place over ZOOM at 7:00pm on Friday, January 15th. The event is free and open to the public. To join the ZOOM Meeting, use the link, bit.ly/JanuaryBookTalk.  Swimming Upstream is the story… [Read More]

The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation Presents The Fifth Annual Celebration for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day On-Line Mon., January 18 at 2pm  The Gloucester Meetinghouse Founda­tion Presents the Fifth Annual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day called Listening to Genera­tions of Local Voices. The online event will premiere on Monday, January 18, 2021 at 2… [Read More]