By Mary Chasse, Neighb News Correspondent At its meeting on Monday 4/4 the Fairhaven Board of Public Works discussed adding benches to Grimshaw Park, and memorial benches at Fort Phoenix. The board also briefly discussed the BMX track at Macomber Pimental Field. The board first discussed a request from the Council on Aging about installing six… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Anna Quintin and Cecelia “CB” Cowell have been celebrating their birthdays together for a full century now. Their mothers were sisters and gave birth to the cousins one week apart, with Anna having the distinc­tion of being one week older. They celebrated their 100th on Sunday, 4/10/22, at White’s of Westport, surrounded… [Read More]

Fairhaven Lions Club members joined members of the community for the East Fairhaven School Trail cleanup day on Saturday, 4/9, for their first service project of 2022. They helped with cutting trees that had fallen across the trail, cutting back brush, and clearing the trail of leaves and sticks. The EFS Trail, located at the… [Read More]

Text and photo graphic courtesy of ML. Baron Lightning strikes 144-year old Fairhaven Home “We are all okay… Just some minor damage… The lightning hit the tree on the corner of the house and hit the gas main,” Ed Macedo, owner An intense lightning cell transited right over Buzzards Bay and Fairhaven, Friday morning, April… [Read More]

Rocking Mom Dear Frankie,  My friend Lulu is an ace student. Every year she wins the school award for best writer.  Lulu  also can be a big com­plainer. When­ever I see her, she’s complain­ing about her boss or boyfriend.  At first, I commiserated, and then I offered some advice. After a while, I realized it… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Election Day, 4/4/22, ushered in some big firsts for Fairhaven: The town’s new Town Administrator, Angeline “Angie” Lopes Ellison, started on the job that day; the Select Board officially became a five-member board, expanded from three; and Leon Correy, who received the second highest number of votes, made history as the first… [Read More]

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Workers are dismantling the second floor of the former Jackson’s Variety convenience store at 114 Sconticut Neck Road in Fairhaven. The store had been in operation for more than 50 years when a fire on 2/3/20 destroyed the building and nearly took the life of Colin “Jack” Jackson, who lived upstairs. He was able to… [Read More]

All For One Dear Frankie,  My youngest siblings are four-year-old twins. They both have great dispositions. Sometimes my mom only gives them one toy to play with. She does this, she says, to teach them how to share.  Most of the time, the twins enjoy sharing a toy. However, occasionally, one of them gets mad… [Read More]

The Unified Basketball teams of Fairhaven’s Elizabeth Hastings Middle School and Dartmouth Middle School faced off on 3/18/22 and 3/25/22, with Fairhaven prevailing 22-14 at home on 3/18 and a tie, 28-28, on 3/25 at Dartmouth. It was the first time this year that the team came together to play.  Unified Basketball is in association with… [Read More]