By Jean Perry, Neighb News Correspondent The vacant seat on the Fairhaven Board of Health was filled on 7/30 in a split vote during a joint meeting of the BOH and the Selectboard. Among the five candidates, both BOH members picked Geoffrey Haworth, a home improvement and landscaping business owner,  former Selectboard member and former Board… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Rhode Island was taken off the list of states with no travel restrictions to Massachusetts on Tuesday. RI had previously been included in the rest of New England States, New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii as being exempt from travel restrictions in Mass. After an uptick in COVID-19 cases hit the state,… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor “I’ve never been there when somebody wasn’t sitting there,” said Darlene Lovegrove, Matthew Lovegrove’s mother, about the memorial bench for him at the little fishing pier off the Little Bay extension to the bike path in Fairhaven. She said the bench was destroyed last Wednesday, 7/29, and they used the back of… [Read More]

Locals got a nice surprise this week when the Mayflower II stopped by for a visit. The replica of the famous ship that brought European settlers to the new land docked at State Pier in New Bedford harbor to ride out tropical storm Isaias on Tuesday, 8/4/20. A few people got up close and were… [Read More]

Tropical Storm Isaias moved quickly through town in one day on Tuesdaym 8/4/20, bringing wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour in parts of Massachusetts, including at the Fairhaven Town Beach. Some rain accompanied the storm, but not the torrential downpours that other areas saw. At least one boat broke from its mooring… [Read More]

Shirley A. Hunter, 84, of West Island in Fairhaven, formerly of Norton, passed away on Saturday, August 1, 2020 peacefully at her home with family close by after a long battle with cancer. Shirley was born in Attleboro on April 30, 1936, the only child of John F. and Rose E. (McGann) Fitzgerald and was raised… [Read More]

Well, Town Meeting finally happened, albeit not the way we usually do it. I LOVE Town Meeting, but what I love about it is BEING there.  I mentioned last week that I’d miss walking up and down the aisles taking pictures of the Town Meeting members as they read their warrants and commented on articles,… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor With only a few minor amusing glitches, such as a town meeting member or two hitting the button to be recognized by mistake, Fairhaven’s first virtual annual Town Meeting on Saturday, 7/25/20, went off without hitch…well, not much of a hitch…on Saturday. One of the videos got a little fussy, leading to… [Read More]

By Jean Perry, Neighb News Correspondent A survey sent to parents to gauge their comfort of sending their kids back to school has provided the Fairhaven School District with the data it needs to begin planning for three different learning models and study the feasibility of safely reopen­ing schools for in-person learning as the COVID-19 pandemic… [Read More]