It’s the Barnum and Bailey Board of Health I saw the open meeting complaint article in the 10/8/20 issue (page 11).  The Board of Health has been in chaos since DeTerra took over as Chair. According to meetings there are missing bills, documents, lost passcodes, missed phone messages, files, not aware there is a Google… [Read More]

Town Officials are Childish and Immature I receive the Neighborhood News by email and have been subscribing for several years. Although I no longer live in Fairhaven, I grew up there and graduated from Fairhaven High. I remained in the Greater New Bedford area until I retired in 1993, when I moved to Florida. However,… [Read More]

Neighb News is Not Gossip Our current Chair of the Board of Selectmen seems to misunderstand newspapers and the role they fill. He applies those misunderstandings to Fairhaven’s most important local newspaper, the Neighborhood News. The chairman seeks to belittle the Neighborhood News by calling it a “magazine” and its content “gossip.” The editor, however,… [Read More]

Honestly, I feel like just repeating the word “shitshow” over and over and over again all over this page. Dan Freitas’s sensibilities are so hurt by it (see page 4).  So, because his sensitive skin is hurt, Mr. Freitas wants to move the legal notices which are paid ads, from the Neighb News to the… [Read More]

Are residents satisfied with mediocrity? Is this town really so willing to be satisfied with the mediocrity of its board members? It seems that the conduct dis­played toward Mary Kellogg bordered on an Inquisition. A real chop job and completely warrantless. I’d like to know how many of the three gentlemen on the Boad of… [Read More]

Well, the Board of Health con­tinues to mortify and embarrass us. “Shitshow” doesn’t even begin to describe it. They fired the health agent on claims and charges that seemed not only petty, but unfounded (see page 7).  Not even getting into the substance of it, just look at the process. They all got to go… [Read More]

Brrr….it got cold out there. I was really hoping for a couple more fishing excursions, but, gee. BRRR. The Fairhaven Selectboard met this week (see page 4). The meeting went on forever. No, really, it was like four hours long.  And these guys think the Town Administrator has to much power, they want to take… [Read More]

We are living the nightmare Dear Mr Pond, Beth did your homework for you and clarified some of the statements in your last letter.  Thank you Beth.  You used such big words in your last letter I had to get out my dictionary. My favorite ones were that we will “go into a socialist, Marxist… [Read More]

Thank you to the Fairhaven Selectboard  My name is Willow Berg, and I am a junior at Fairhaven High School. I would like to thank the Fairhaven selectboard for adding the 10% in renewables to our aggregation contract. I am so grateful that the motion was passed, and our town representatives are thinking of the… [Read More]

Fairhaven residents need to be heard at 9/21 meeting We have lived in Fairhaven for 20 years. I am not a native but love the town as much as anyone who has lived here longer. The people of Fairhaven I have come to know are proud of their town. Only once before have I been… [Read More]