From Pride to Shame in Fairhaven I moved to Fairhaven 25 years ago. My husband and I wanted our sons to be raised in a safe, kind and nurturing community. We had been married and had our children in St. Petersburg, FL. When we arrived here there were ZERO people of color in any position… [Read More]

Education is Not Political Indoctrination “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”  “Whaddya got?!” [Marlon Brando, The Wild One]  Education teaches young people to use their mind like adults, for adult living. Education is not social adjust­ment, psychotherapy, political indoc­trina­tion or job training.  Education is science for reality, math for the mind, history for what… [Read More]

By Beth David, 3/14/24 Oh, Spring, you’re toying with us…stop that, please.  We continue this week with candidate state­ments. We have two more of the contested races: School Committee (page 12) and Board of Health (page 6). Next week we’ll have Planning Board and that will be it for the contested races. Then we’ll have… [Read More]

McKenna Supports Pacheco I am writing to strongly endorse the Candidacy of Nicole Pacheco for Fairhaven School Committee (3 year term seat). I had the honor of working with Nicole the last few months on the Fairhaven School Committee and she has shown so much support for our School System. She is thoughtful, very polite… [Read More]

Pacheco is Caring, Reliable Support Nicole Pacheco in Continuing the Work She has Started I would like to offer my support for Nicole Pacheco for the School Committee. I first met Nicole when our daughters were classmates in kindergarten at Wood School. They were fast friends, and we became so as well.  Nicole is caring,… [Read More]

Romano is Smart, Business Minded My name is Amy Goyer. I live on Hedge Street with my son, who attends Hastings Middle School. I am writing this letter in support of Andrew Romano’s candidacy for Fairhaven Select Board. I have known Andrew since my son was a toddler and Andrew was a student at Fairhaven… [Read More]

Melanson Supports Carr, Saunders Campaigning for the position as a Select Board Member and managing our town as an executive officer is no different than that of applying for employment through the application process. We have to ask ourselves… “If it was my 60-million-dollar com­pany, who has the knowledge and experience I would want running… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Let the games begin! Local election season is officially upon us.  See page 12 for candi­date statements from the five candidates running for Select Board in Fairhaven. For the next three weeks we will have more statements from different races. We also have lots of letters from our readers, most of… [Read More]

Espindola Endorses Romano I write this letter to enthusias­tically support Andrew Romano for Select Board. If you have been following Andrew, you know that he is already on top of the issues Fairhaven is facing. He has been proactive in getting his message out to us from the moment he first committed to running.  I… [Read More]

Stop Talking About Racism Racism in Fairhaven. Really? Recently I watched an interview with the great actor Morgan Freeman. He was asked: “How do we stop racism in America?” Freeman eyed his interviewer with a steely stare and replied, “Stop talking about it.” And that’s when it hit me. We as a society are always… [Read More]