Susan Pawlak-Seaman
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New Bedford, MA, United States
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LIVE AND LEARN: A last word and a fond farewell from Susan Pawlak-Seaman
Today, you are reading my final column for The Standard-Times. After 45 years at a place I love, with people I love, doing a job I love, it’s time to say goodbye. But before I do, I wanted to share just how much I loved being a community journalist and how much my time Here with all of you Out There has meant to me. Because it has Meant The World. That said, I struggled mightily with how best to… → Read More
LIVE AND LEARN: SouthCoast's small businesses are a Cut Above
Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. Every so often, I confess, I stop reflecting on → Read More
LIVE AND LEARN: Counting and sharing our blessings in coronatimes
Susan Pawlak-Seaman @SeamanSusanSCT Too many people I know … or know of … are struggling… Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting I say this against the backdrop of Hank’s extended illness. We are so very lucky. I’m not going to lie to you. This hasn’t been an easy year. Since Jan. 21 when Hank first entered the hospital, things… → Read More
Column: Marking time in this coronavirus season
Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. Back in the day, there were these lyrics from a song by the group Chicago: “Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” I’m thinking about this because, right now, I am having trouble keeping track of what time it is. Or what day it is. And I care. One of the Many… → Read More
For SouthCoast Leap Babies, Feb. 29 isn't just another birthday
So it's 2020 and, hey, it's not just a cool sounding year. It's also a Leap Year which means that after four long years, those of you who hold the distinction of being born on Feb. 29 finally get to celebrate your Real Birthday. In honor of this momentous occasion, we invited SouthCoast Leap Babies to tell us how it feels to be one. We also asked them how they're planning to celebrate. We heard… → Read More
Column: Yule never believe what I can't find
This year, I’d been doing pretty well keeping track of my stuff. Until the other day. → Read More
Pawsing to reflect: Why I talk to my pets
Susan Pawlak-Seaman @SeamanSusanSCT And I'm here to tell you, yep, they talk back Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. I was scanning my Facebook page when one post in particular grabbed my attention. It had been shared from AnimalsPage.com and proclaimed “Research Has Found That People Who Talk To Pets Are Smarter Than Those… → Read More
Latest addition to New Bedford's Buttonwood Park Zoo is sinfully cute
NEW BEDFORD — If "sloth" brings to mind one of the Seven Deadly Sins, it's time for some rethinking. The only thing sinful about Lysander, one of the Buttonwood Park Zoo's latest additions, is that she's sinfully cute. Lysander, affectionately known as "Sandy," is the Zoo's — and SouthCoast's — first female Hoffman’s two-toed sloth, according to a news release from the Zoo. The 10-year-old… → Read More
[UPDATE] MSP: Fatal crash on Route 24 in Assonet area
Second fatal crash in days in same area of the highway → Read More
[UPDATE] MSP: Fall River man victim in fatal Route 24 crash
Second fatal crash in days in same area of the highway → Read More
For magazines, mourning a not so glossy future
For a lot of years, I had a constant backlog. I found myself reading Christmas issues in July and summer recipes just in time for Thanksgiving. → Read More
DA's office: Fairhaven man, apparently lying in road, dies after hit by car
FAIRHAVEN — A 38-year-old Fairhaven man, who was apparently lying in the road, was run over by a passing vehicle Sunday night and died later at St. → Read More
High winds, heavy rains forecast to take SouthCoast by storm
Bad weather is expected to continue into the weekend → Read More
MA records 12th EEE case in humans; DPH revises death count
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Public Health today reported the 12th human case of EEE, at the same time revising the death toll from the virus downward to three.On Wednesday, the DPH announced that it had recently been notified by a hospital of the death of an Essex County resident (on the North Shore) from EEE. However, on Thursday, in a news release, state health officials said that… → Read More
Susan Pawlak-Seaman: Finding the lost groovy in 2019
So, this song is suddenly stuck in my head …. “Slow down, you move too fast … You got to make the morning last … Just kicking → Read More
It's in the (brown paper) bag today in Dartmouth as plastic bag ban takes effect
DARTMOUTH — In case you've forgotten — I sort of did — today (Sept. 10) is the day that Dartmouth's plastic bag ban takes effect.The ban, which was approved by Town Meeting in June, prohibits "the use, distribution and sale of thin-film plastic bags by merchants" and there's a fine of $200 for each violation.Merchants with a gross floor space of at least 5,000 square feet are affected. However,… → Read More
Detail officer nabs wanted Dartmouth man after foot chase
DARTMOUTH — Quick thinking by a town police officer working a road detail Thursday afternoon resulted in the arrest of a Dartmouth man on numerous charges.Officer Christopher Flechsig was on a road construction detail in the 900 block of Reed Road at 2:44 p.m. when he spotted Cameron Bessette, 20, of Reed Road, riding a motorcycle toward him, according to a news release from Detective Kyle J.… → Read More
5th human case of EEE in Mass, state DPH says
BOSTON — A fifth human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in Massachusetts has been diagnosed in a man in his 70s from southwestern Middlesex County, the state Department of Public Health said Thursday.On Aug. 25, Laurie Sylvia, 59, of Fairhaven, who was the fourth human case diagnosed this year, died of EEE, according to her family. Others with EEE include a Rochester man in his 60s, and… → Read More
Child-centric philosophy has guided Little People's College through 40 years of education changes
“Begin with children where they are and guide them to be the best that they can be” → Read More
Pay attention, SouthCoast: EEE threat is real
I was in college and working summers as a clerk in the Middleboro bureau of The Standard-Times when EEE first made a dent on me.Bureau chief Don Weeks had → Read More