By Beth David, Editor Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker lifted the stay-at-home order, which required people to stay at home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., except for essential travel, such as work. Businesses are now allowed to stay open past 9:30 p.m. The state’s COVID 19 numbers are still high, but are going down. There were… [Read More]

From https://africanamericanhistorymonth.gov The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administra­tion, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizen­ship in American society. As a Harvard-trained… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Major league baseball players in the Fairhaven Acushnet Youth Base­ball League will have a new option this season: 50/70 fields. That means that the 10-12 year olds will be playing on fields that are a step closer to their next level: a field that is the same size as the professionals. The… [Read More]

By Mary Macedo, Neighb News Correspondent At its meeting on Monday 1/11 the Fairhaven Board of Public Works hired for an open position in the Highway Department, discussed fiscal year 2022 budgets for all the BPW departments, and decided to ask Town Meeting to put the Tree Department under the jurisdiction of the BPW. All board… [Read More]

Jean Perry, Neighb News Correspondent Fairhaven Board of Health member Michael Ristuccia said on 1/13 that the board had received nine applicat­ions for the health agent position, but his tone did not indicate optimism. “We have not made any interviews yet … because we’ve notified several of the applicants that we don’t feel as though they… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced that the state’s first mass COVID-19 vaccination site has opened at Gillette Stadium. The site is open for vaccinating people in the Phase 1 priority groups, which include health­care workers and first responders. To schedule an appointment, visit  https://www.cic-health.com/vaccines  The site will eventually ramp up to 5,000… [Read More]

Press Release The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) annually recognizes one superintendent in each of the 50 states who have displayed excep­tional leadership in the areas of education, professional development, and community involve­ment. Fair­haven Public Schools was recently notified and is proud to announce that Superintendent Dr. Robert N. Baldwin has been named the… [Read More]

Press Release Fairhaven Forward is an apolitical group seeking to collect 1,725 certified signatures to add onto the ballot: “Shall a commission be elected to frame a charter for the Town of Fairhaven.” Once we reach the threshold of signatures needed, voters will vote for this ballot question as well as the nine Fairhaven residents… [Read More]

By Rob Gonsalves, Special to the Neighb News First came Wonder Woman. Always the trailblazer, she led the way. If 2020 had been a normal year, Wonder Woman 1984 — the sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman — would have opened last June. After several COVID-related delays, the movie’s distributor Warner Bros. announced that it would… [Read More]