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Car parade makes Fairhaven High School graduation as special as any
Students and staff pre-record all the speeches, songs and recognition of graduates → Read More
New Bedford protest supports 'black lives' in wake of Minnesota man's death
Group of 25 young people organized on Facebook swells to about 100 or so in the evening → Read More
Cold comfort: South Coast Polar Plunge has become popular tradition
FAIRHAVEN — It's not your father's polar plunge. This is a big, well-organized fundraiser as well as family and friend celebration. Some 150 people → Read More
Cold comfort: South Coast Polar Plunge has become popular tradition
FAIRHAVEN — It's not your father's polar plunge. This is a big, well-organized fundraiser as well as family and friend celebration. Some 150 people on Wednesday morning took part in this town's annual New Year's Day ritual at Fort Phoenix and several hundred more people watched them from ashore. It's just one of several cold weather dips in the ocean that take place across SouthCoast on New… → Read More
Cold comfort: Fairhaven's Polar Plunge has become popular town tradition
FAIRHAVEN — It's not your father's polar plunge. This is a big, well-organized fundraiser as well as family and friend celebration. Some 150 people on Wednesday morning took part in this town's annual New Year's Day ritual at Fort Phoenix and several hundred more people watched them from ashore. It's just one of several cold weather dips in the ocean that take place across SouthCoast on New… → Read More
Jack Spillane: A new center of the New Bedford peninsula is about to be born
It was the late Loretta Bourque who first told me about the neighborhood around St. Anne's church in the South End.Bourque grew up in the French Canadian → Read More
A childhood during war: Dartmouth man remembers what he saw growing up in Holland during World War II
More than 75 years after he grew up in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, Leo Brautigam still remembers the upheaval it caused his family and country.The Dartmouth man, now 90, was 11 when Germany invaded and took over the small country in just five days. The day of the invasion he had heard big rumblings in the Rotterdam sky that he thought was thunder.“No, it’s not thunder, it’s more than that,”… → Read More
Former Carney, Keith official will run for School Committee
NEW BEDFORD — The 2018 New Bedford election season got off to a quick start Monday as a former New Bedford school administrator announced he will → Read More
Mitchell gives Markey credit for $15 million upgrade to Port
WESTPORT -- Sen. Edward Markey and others talked about the things he’s done for New Bedford Friday and local leaders talked about other things → Read More
DOT will proceed with Middleboro rail route, according to email later retracted
NEW BEDFORD — South Coast Rail, at least for the near future, will consist of two rush-hour trains using the Middleboro rail line, according → Read More
Jack Spillane: Capital punishment on trial in New Bedford
“I’m pleading for life and understanding.” — Clarence Darrow I had watched Your Theatre’s recent production → Read More
Jack Spillane: The woman who rode the SRTA bus
I’ll never forget this woman whom I once saw on a SRTA bus and whose name I never knew.A number of years ago I was riding the bus for a column I → Read More
Jack Spillane: Sheriff Hodgson's plan for the big, beautiful wall
It was classic Tom Hodgson.First put the word out that you’re the one who’s rough and ready with just the tough love that both inmates and → Read More
Jack Spillane: Love, and Christmas, is about going for that big moment
“I may not always love you/But as long as there are stars above you/You never need to doubt it.” — Brian Wilson As → Read More
Jack Spillane: At the Cove Walk, grand park for inner city will have to wait
They’re walking and running the new Cove Walk even before it’s finished.The second of New Bedford’s two elevated walkways with the → Read More
Jack Spillane: A campaign headed for catastrophe?
A few weeks ago, I ran into a minister I know on the street.She was working on a sermon and seemed a bit tense. We talked a bit about how this year of → Read More
Jack Spillane: Lies, dangerous lies and Donald Trump lies
The media, it seems, has finally had enough of Donald Trump lying.In one of the most astonishing developments in the history of modern journalism, → Read More
Jack Spillane: Matt Morrissey positions New Bedford for offshore wind
When Charlie Baker took a deep breath and signed the renewable energy bill that could finally make New Bedford a staging port for the wind turbine → Read More
Jack Spillane: Fairhaven searches for harmony with Fort Phoenix Pokemon
Lady Fairhaven could never have imagined any of this.Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, excited twenty-somethings running about her beloved Fort → Read More
Remarks by former mayor raise questions for some about Hillary Clinton's New Bedford story
NEW BEDFORD — Hillary Clinton's callout to New Bedford during her Democratic presidential nomination speech has been greeted with enthusiasm → Read More