By Beth David, Editor Fairhaven held its annual Memorial Day parade on Monday, 5/26/25, marching on Main Street from Union Street to Riverside Cemetery for a ceremony that included speeches, patriotic music, and the firing of the small cannon by the Fairhaven Village Militia. Along the route, supporters waved flags and clapped as the parade went… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor The Fairhaven Select Board held a marathon meeting on Tuesday, 5/27/25, which included annual appointments to boards/committees, a couple of pole hearings, a fee waiver for the school department, and discussion of creating an Atlas Tack committee or working group. The board held two hearings for utility poles that got a bit… [Read More]

Submitted by EPA On Tuesday, May 20, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) staff, along with federal, state, and local partners, and the Fairhaven community, gathered together to celebrate the unveiling of three interpretive signs that describe site history, site cleanup, and the ecological restoration of the fresh­water wetland and tidal saltwater marsh at… [Read More]

Submitted by the Fairhaven Sustainability Committee Save Our Shorebirds is Back! And with it…the Piping Plovers have returned to West Island Town Beach. The Fairhaven Sustainability Com­mit­tee, working with The Lloyd Center for the Environment, is looking to help grow the vanishing flock with a Save Our Shorebirds PR campaign and onsite signage and fencing. … [Read More]

The Reprimand Dear Frankie, I still have a lump on my head where my four-year-old nephew hit me with his truck while I was sleeping.  When my mom saw what he had done, she took the truck away from him and reprimanded him for hitting me. He responded by crying and ran out of the… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Hundreds of people enjoyed a block party on Ferry Street in Fairhaven to celebrate the new extra-wide sidewalk installed just a few weeks ago. Organized by the Fair­haven Office of Community Develop­ment and the Livable Streets Committee, the event, “Scoops and the Street,” also celebrated the season opening of the Ice Cream… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor At its meeting on 5/12/25, the Fairhaven Select Board heard from the police chief and fire chief about the change from a local dispatch system to a regional center in Holbrook. Fairhaven Police Chief, Daniel Dorgan, ran through a litany of missteps and problems since the new system started last year, while… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor The Massachusetts Civil Service Commission (CSC) released a final decision and an interim decision on two matters pertaining to the Fair­haven Police Department on 5/15/25. In the case of Matthew Botelho, the CSC affirmed the decision by the town to appoint Daniel Dorgan as police chief, bypassing then-Sgt. Botelho. The initial appointment… [Read More]