Fairhaven’s election is on Monday, 4/7/25. Acushnet’s election is on Tuesday, 4/22/25. Nomination papers for Acushnet are still available, but Fairhaven is all closed up. Fairhaven It looks like Fairhaven will have four contested elections this year. Candidates have until March 5 to withdraw, so it could change, but that is unlikely. All candidates who… [Read More]

Submitted A Lifetime Commitment Like the U. S. Post Office in the olden days, neither snow nor sleet nor any other natural or man-made obstacle could keep family, friends, fellow Sacred Hearts Brothers, Fathers and Sisters, and St. Mary parishioners from gathering at the North Fairhaven Church Sunday morn­ing, 2/9/25, for a very special event…. [Read More]

Scores of people showed up at the corners Huttleston Avenue (Route 6) and Main/Middle Streets on Presi­dents Day, 2/17/25, for a national day of protest. The 50501 Movement called for the action, it stands for: 50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement. All 50 states held protests in state capitals and other cities to protest President… [Read More]

Book Discussion To celebrate Black History Month, the Friends of the Millicent Library will sponsor a discussion of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Percival Everett’s James. We will meet in the auditorium of the Millicent Library, 45 Center Street (Walnut Street entrance) at 6:30 on Monday, 2/24. In 1884, Twain published the story… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor It all started when some friends got a puppy during the pandemic and they had no idea what they had gotten themselves into. They called Geneva Woodruff and told her all kinds of things about how difficult it was. “And I was very amused by this,” said Dr Woodruff. As a joke,… [Read More]

Permission Dear Frankie, Recently, I learned that Sly stole my sweater from my locker at my doggy daycare. It wasn’t just any old sweater but a special gift from mom. She knitted it for my birthday. It was made of the softest wool in the prettiest shade of green. She even embroidered my initials in… [Read More]

The region saw about 4” of snow this Sunday, a rare occurrence this winter. This is the first snow that we couldn’t just ignore. It was enough to need plowing and shoveling and the temperatures stayed well below freezing so it is still not about to melt anytime soon. The forecast predicts a dusting to… [Read More]

Press Release from “State Senator Mark Montigny Senator Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford) has championed the South­coast Rail project since its inception, authoring the project’s key enabling law and vital capital funding that jumpstarted the project for the Greater New Bedford region. In particular, Montigny’s laws included the project’s very first environmental impact study as well… [Read More]