Well, summer activities are picking up for sure. This past weekend was the Memorial Day Parade (see page 12), This coming weekend is the high school graduation. If you want to run an ad congratulating the graduates, but sure to let us know ASAP. See page 4 for details. FinestKind was in town again (see… [Read More]

The Texas School Shooting Words can not express the depth of sorrow and grief, the parents, family members and friends are experiencing over the death of these innocent victims. Speaking for myself and my wife, I can trulyi sayi we are deeply sorrowful over their deaths. With the passage of time we have a clearer… [Read More]

Stoked grievance is the problem. Increasing the age for gun purchases, providing more security in schools and passing more red flag laws might satisfy the call for gun regulation that arises after every horrific massacre in this country, but this will not prevent the next from occurring. The problem is the ever increasing dissemination of… [Read More]

Big weekend coming up! The encampment, however, has been scaled back, but it’s still going to be held (see page 3). Organizers say there’s a shortage of cannon-grade gun powder, so they won’t be firing off the five big cannons. But they will fire off the small cannon throughout the day, and the muskets. Oh… [Read More]

Y’know, I wasn’t even going to watch it. It’s routine, I thought. They vote on Town Meeting articles. They recommend some, they don’t recommend others. But, they don’t REMOVE the ones they don’t like that come from other boards. That….like…doesn’t happen. Until now. First problem, they try to stop Mr. Foley from explaining the whole… [Read More]

Thank you from the food pantry This letter of thanks goes out to all of the generous Fairhaven residents, who contributed non-perishable food to the 30th annual U.S. Postal food drive called “Stamp Out Hunger.” On Saturday May 14th, the hard working letter carriers did double duty by delivering the mail and picking up all… [Read More]

Hodgson is right to keep Ash Street open It being an election year, it’s no surprise that a big issue I’ve seen in the media with regard to the Sheriff’s race is the Ash Street Jail and Regional Lock-Up in New Bedford.  The jail opened in 1888. It’s more than a century old. It used… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Here we go again. Another crazy barely-made-deadline week. Apologies to the Fairhaven Selectboard. You were supposed to be on page 3, but, alas, time got away from me. Catch up next week, okay? Acushnet Town Meeting was just waaaay too much fun. Had to give that some good detail. Honestly, if… [Read More]

Press Release from Paul Heroux, candidate for Bristol County Sheriff Candidate for Sheriff Paul Heroux is saying that Sheriff Tom Hodgson is trying to have it both ways and is being disingenuous. On WBSM, incumbent Hodgson says in one sentence that “We’re all in the same boat trying to find a formula that really makes… [Read More]

Hey, look what we did! We won two awards in the New England Newspaper and Press Association journalism compe­ti­tion. Jean Perry (you remem­ber Jean, right?) and I won for our story on the appointment of Wendy Graves as Interim Town Administrator. Yeah, I know, let’s just drop that, right? But, hey, the awards go back… [Read More]