By Beth David, Editor Postal service customers across the entire country left food by their mailboxes for the 30th annual “Stamp out Hunger” food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers, after a two-year hiatus due to COVID 19. In Fairhaven, letter carriers took the food to the USPS location on Pequod Road where volunteers… [Read More]
Fairhaven Select Board kills shade tree bylaw
By Beth David, Editor In a rather convoluted process over two meetings, the Fairhaven Select Board removed a Town Meeting article for a shade tree bylaw that the Planning Board has been working on since last September. At their 5/9 meeting, after a presentation by Town Planner Paul Foley and comments by Planning Board Chairperson Wayne… [Read More]
BPW hires beach parking attendants
By Mary Chasse, Neighb News Correspondent At its meeting on Monday, 5/9/22, the Fairhaven Board of Public Works hired summer help for West Island Town Beach, promoted an employee from the Highway Department, and discussed bat boxes to be built on the Fort Phoenix bike trail by a local Eagle Scout. The board first took… [Read More]
Fairhaven TV wins national award
Press Release Fairhaven TV received a 2022 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation. The awards program was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Proceeds go to the ACM Foundation which is… [Read More]
Grow Local!
By Christin Ritz for the Fairhaven Sustainability Committee Spring officially began back in March, but these past few weeks it finally feels like it! The birds are nesting, the bunnies are out in full force, and the grass is back to its needy self — requiring a mow on the regular. The weather hovers around that perfect… [Read More]
Hinckley pulls off big upset in Acushnet
By Beth David, Editor Newcomer to politics, Robert Hinckley, pulled off a big upset in Acushnet when he beat incumbent David Desroches, 391-338* for Selectboard in the 5/14/22 election. Mr. Hinckley’s only other attempt at office was two years ago when he ran as a write-in candidate starting just a few days before the election. This… [Read More]
Dear Frankie
Patron the Sniffer Dog Dear Frankie, I read your column last week and saw how upset you and your readers were about the dogs in Ukraine. I thought you would be interested in knowing about Patron, a brave little Jack Russell who serves in the Ukrainian Military. Before I tell you about him, I don’t… [Read More]
Acushnet TM passes moratorium on solar; soil bylaw fails
By Beth David, Editor In two votes that were not the least bit close, Acushnet Town Meeting voted to pass a moratorium on large scale solar installations and, in a separate vote, did not adopt a soil bylaw change designed to regulate activities at PJ Keating. Several other articles also garnered discussion, including a reserve fund… [Read More]
Chimney fire damages house on Balsam Street
By Beth David, Editor On Monday, May 9, 2022, at 05:04 a.m., the Fairhaven Fire Department responded to a report of a fire around a fireplace at 140 Balsam Street in Fairhaven. The first crew arrived at 05:15 a.m and reported the fire around the chimney. Crews opened up the walls around the fireplace and extinguished… [Read More]
Fairhaven’s Bob McConnell launches GOP bid to unseat Straus
Press Release Bob McConnell of Fairhaven has acquired the required certified signatures to be on the November 6th ballot as the Republican candidate for the 10th Bristol State Representative seat. One clear reason McConnell gives as his motivation to serve is the fact that Massachusetts is sadly in last place for contested political elections. It’s… [Read More]
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