Support Annual Food Drive It’s that time of year when the Shepherds Pantry’s annual Holiday Fundraiser is again in full swing. For the past 18 years, volunteers at the Shepherd’s Pantry, located at the Long Plain United Methodist Church at 1215 Main Street in Acushnet, are asking the generous public for their continued financial support… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Ah…Fairhaven Board of Health, you are the gift that just keeps on giving. There is not enough popcorn in the world for this one. Protesters outside town hall (see page 7) and a video for it, too; the incomparable Diane Hahn went into the room, and was blocked by the door. … [Read More]

Whoa…did you feel that? The ground shook. No, I don’t mean the election. I mean…the ground shook, really. We had an honest-to-good­ness earthquake in these parts (see page 13). I heard it and felt it. It was a doozy. But, by California standards it was nothing, nothing at all. Now, that’s scary.  I’m glad we… [Read More]

Alas, the end of our last Halloween hype this week. But we have LOTS of it. Besides our cover story (page 12), we’ve got the Halloween Town Hall, Halloween in the Center, and the first West Island Witch Ride. Charlie and I joined that ride — see us up there? It was lots of fun. For… [Read More]

Fairhaven Officials Have Let Down Residents I am writing this while sitting on my porch greeting the goblins with their parents reveling in the normalcy of trick or treating. Yes, it’s the “new normal”…a table on the sidewalk with individually wrapped candy in individual bags instead of door knocking and handing out candy face to… [Read More]

Oh boy, it never ends.  Peter DeTerra and the Board of Health sat in judgement on a business in town that violated COVID-19 regs (page 22). Yeah…really…that really happened. The guy who had 150+ people at his house for a wedding in violation of COVID-19 regs voted to shut down a business in Fairhaven because… [Read More]

Congressional Overreach In April 2020 I predicted that if Joe Biden won the Presidency Democrat power brokers would “dust off” the 25th amendment and replace him with whomever was selected vice president. My estimate at the time was within 6 to 12 months of inauguration but it could be sooner.  Speaker of the House Nancy… [Read More]

BOS Motions “transparently vindictive” During the October 5 Selectboard (BOS) meeting Chairman Daniel Freitas made a motion to assign the legal ads to papers other than the Fairhaven Neighborhood News. His reason for doing so was that he did not like the “gossip” coverage in FNN and that “people” had complained to him about it…. [Read More]

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]