Press Release The Mass. Property Insurance Underwriting Association (FAIR Plan) has agreed to pay $350,000 to resolve allegations that it impermissibly cancelled homeowners insurance policies between January 2010 and February 2014, Attorney General Maura Healey announced on 7/26. Under the assurance of discon­tinuance, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, the FAIR Plan will pay $350,000 to… [Read More]

The clients of Fairhaven Social Day and the children from the Kool Kids Summer Program got together to enjoy an afternoon of food and fun, thanks to a Community Building United Way Mini Grant. They enjoyed a cookout, face painting, arts & crafts, a magician, a petting zoo, cotton candy and someone making balloon animals…. [Read More]

Press Release Despite advances in vehicle technology, including maintenance reminders and other dashboard alerts designed to mitigate roadside trouble, AAA rescued a record-breaking 32 million drivers in 2015, with more battery, flat tire and key problems than ever before. Vehicles fewer than five years old in particular experienced a higher proportion of tire and key-related… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor About 100 people tried to jam their way into the Banquet Room at Town Hall on Tuesday, 7/26, for a re-do of a “Neighborhood Forum” pertaining to the proposed removal of 18 trees on Green Street as part of a road reconstruction project. Residents filled the doorway and the hall to… [Read More]

    By Beth David, Editor Fairhaven’s annual Outdoor Movie Night, featuring Disney’s Inside Out, was going swimmingly, despite one, big ole’ dark cloud that seemed to be hanging around the fringes of Livesey Park on Saturday, 7/23. The kids ran around and played in the bounce houses, food vendors were busy dishing out their… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor At a Special Town Meeting on 6/30, Fairhaven TM members voted to accept the terms of the sale of the Oxford School building to Stratford Capital Group (SCG). The plan is to transform the property into an affordable housing complex for residents 62 and older. The vote was the culmination of… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Who knew the Fairhaven Bell Committee would have so much to do? Less than a year after a successful and major operation to remove the Paul-Revere-made bell from the cupola of the Oxford School on Main Street, the committee has found a new project: Removing the bell from the Rogers School…. [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Just a little bit of drama spiced up the first annual West Island Regatta on Sunday, 7/24. Beginning and ending from Hoppy’s Landing in Fairhaven, the fleet of about a dozen small sailboats signed up to set sail for a three mile course. Two ended up not joining the fray due… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Michelle Carter, the Plainville woman who is charged with man­slaughter in the suicide death of Conrad Roy III of Mattapoisett, is due in court on Friday, 7/29. The Mass. Supreme Judicial Court rejected her appeal, heard on April 7. At that hearing, Carter’s defense attorneys argued that her actions were free… [Read More]