We got a little snow this weekend, with most of it washing away and melting a few days later. A big rain storm with high winds followed on Tuesday night into Wednesday, clearing out anything that was left water and higher temperatures in the upper 40s. The weekend storm, however, dropped as much as 17… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Scholars, students, readers, and observers joined the New Bedford Whaling Museum for its annual Moby-Dick Marathon this weekend, with a continuous reading of the famous novel by Herman Melville starting at noon on Saturday and ending early Sunday afternoon, about 25 hours later, with more than 200 readers. The annual event… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor The Town of Fairhaven and The Nature Conservancy, with some help from two local oyster farmers, planted more than 16,000 oysters in Little Bay this week. Over the years, the project has created an oyster reef using “cultch,” a mix of shells and other material to create a habitat for oysters…. [Read More]

Press Release Eddie Doherty fished the East End of the Cape Cod Canal so often that other fishermen started calling him East End Eddie. Thus, a nickname became a pen name. He worked for almost 37 years in the Massachusetts Court system where he became the youngest Assistant Clerk-Magistrate in the state at age 25… [Read More]

Hastings Middle School will be sending a student to compete in the regionals for the Patriots Pen Awards, a national program conduced by the Veterans of Foreign Affairs (VFW). Locally, the contest is sponsored by the VFW in Fairhaven, who judged essays based on the them, “How are you inspired by America?” The competition encourages… [Read More]

 The students of St. Joseph’s School in Fairhaven celebrated the Epiphany (the visit of the three kings, called Magi) with a La Befana skit. Several students took the parts of La Befana, the three kings, the farmer, the shepherd and the star. Following the skit, the teachers were given gifts of “gold,” “frankincense,” and “myrrh”… [Read More]