The Fairhaven Animal Shelter held its annual yard sale on Saturday, 5/14/22, with proeceeds going to the gift account. Items were donated by the community throughout the year. “Our volunteers worked very hard setting up and selling items,” wrote Animal Control Officer Terry Cripps in an email. The yard sale netted nearly $1,000 for the… [Read More]
Dear Frankie
Maisie Goes to College Dear Frankie, Masie is my human sibling. Last week when she came home from school, my mom said, “The letter from the college is on the kitchen counter.” As Maisie read it, she started to cry and shout, “I can’t believe it, I got in.” Then my mom started crying and… [Read More]
Acushnet BBQ welcomes summer
On Monday, 5/16/22 the Acushnet Council on Aging celebrated the start of summer with a Welcome Back BBQ sponsored by Town Administrator Jamie Kelley. Eighty five seniors attended and danced to music by the Meadow Larks all afternoon. ••• Click here to download the entire 5/26/22 issue: 05-26-22 HuttlestonMP Support local journalism, donate to… [Read More]
Stamp Out Hunger food drive fills the truck
By Beth David, Editor Postal service customers across the entire country left food by their mailboxes for the 30th annual “Stamp out Hunger” food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers, after a two-year hiatus due to COVID 19. In Fairhaven, letter carriers took the food to the USPS location on Pequod Road where volunteers… [Read More]
Fairhaven Select Board kills shade tree bylaw
By Beth David, Editor In a rather convoluted process over two meetings, the Fairhaven Select Board removed a Town Meeting article for a shade tree bylaw that the Planning Board has been working on since last September. At their 5/9 meeting, after a presentation by Town Planner Paul Foley and comments by Planning Board Chairperson Wayne… [Read More]
BPW hires beach parking attendants
By Mary Chasse, Neighb News Correspondent At its meeting on Monday, 5/9/22, the Fairhaven Board of Public Works hired summer help for West Island Town Beach, promoted an employee from the Highway Department, and discussed bat boxes to be built on the Fort Phoenix bike trail by a local Eagle Scout. The board first took… [Read More]
Fairhaven TV wins national award
Press Release Fairhaven TV received a 2022 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation. The awards program was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Proceeds go to the ACM Foundation which is… [Read More]
Grow Local!
By Christin Ritz for the Fairhaven Sustainability Committee Spring officially began back in March, but these past few weeks it finally feels like it! The birds are nesting, the bunnies are out in full force, and the grass is back to its needy self — requiring a mow on the regular. The weather hovers around that perfect… [Read More]
Hinckley pulls off big upset in Acushnet
By Beth David, Editor Newcomer to politics, Robert Hinckley, pulled off a big upset in Acushnet when he beat incumbent David Desroches, 391-338* for Selectboard in the 5/14/22 election. Mr. Hinckley’s only other attempt at office was two years ago when he ran as a write-in candidate starting just a few days before the election. This… [Read More]
Dear Frankie
Patron the Sniffer Dog Dear Frankie, I read your column last week and saw how upset you and your readers were about the dogs in Ukraine. I thought you would be interested in knowing about Patron, a brave little Jack Russell who serves in the Ukrainian Military. Before I tell you about him, I don’t… [Read More]
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