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]

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]