Press Release Record-breaking year for 10th Anniversary of Walkathon and Family Fun Day Community Connections, Inc. (CCI) held their 10th Annual Walkathon and Family Fun Day at the Fairhaven Recreation Center on Sunday, September 17th. This annual event helps bring awareness and funding to help individuals with disabilities who participate in CCI’s programs across Southern… [Read More]

By ML Baron, West Island Weather Station A small tremor with a magnitude of 1.6, startled residents in parts of Fairhaven and Mattapoisett, Saturday night about 11:09PM. From Tracie Blanchard, Adams Street, Fairhaven: “Such a loud bang. I thought something hit the house!” From Nancy McGrath-Jorge, Mattapoisett: “It was an earth shattering boom, not only… [Read More]

Press Release The Justice System Training and Research Institute at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, in partnership with the New England Association of Chiefs of Police, recently recognized Sergeant Kevin Swain of Fairhaven, Mass., Police Department for the successful completion of the “Command Training Series: First Line Supervisor Course,” a two-week comprehensive training program… [Read More]

From Press Release Materials On Thursday morning, 9/28, officers from Fairhaven Police, Sandwich Police, and Falmouth Police, State Police troopers assigned to the department’s High Risk Victims Unit, and the FBI executed search warrants at four locations and placed a Fairhaven man under arrest for human trafficking. Officers, troopers and an FBI agent executed warrants… [Read More]

The soggy weather didn’t stop a handful of hardy souls from sleeping out at Fort Phoenix on Friday night through Sunday for the annual fall encampment by the Fairhaven Village Militia. Most members of the militia held out until Saturday, when the rain stopped and the weather got warm. According to participants, the public showed… [Read More]

After 12 years, the Working Waterfront Festival did not return last year, to the disappointment of many. So this year, the Fishing Heritage Center, which was created out of the WWF and its volunteers, held a smaller version of the event in downtown New Bedford and on the Working Waterfront. Held at two locations, the… [Read More]

West Island said “good-bye” to long time resident Donald Viera this week. Also known as the “wishing well guy” for the wishing wells he made and sold around town, Mr. Viera’s house was one of four in a row on the same street on West Island that Donald and his siblings lived in. His parents,… [Read More]

This odd-looking little fellow is probably familiar to those who go down to the sea in ships, but landlubbers will most likely not recognize it. It is a Northern Gannet that mostly likely got beat up by Hurricane Jose and got stranded at the beach on Goulart Memorial Drive in Fairhaven where it just plunked… [Read More]

  By Beth David, Editor Bicycles, file cabinets, large framed photographs, a rescue sled, a floating water pump, bicycles, tables, stuff that works, stuff that doesn’t work, vehicles (did we mention bicycles) and a host of other stuff declared surplus or abandoned got hauled away by eager deal-seekers at the Fairhaven town auction on Saturday,… [Read More]