The following was sent to us from a reader: “I just wanted to add about the West Nile mosquitoes. I work at the Oak Grove Cemetery on Parker Street and our cemetery is flooded with them, so I just wanted to let the page know so the people of the …
Read More »Governor Baker Proposes Reforms To Protect Public From Dangerous Individuals
Governor Charlie Baker today filed legislation that will provide law enforcement and prosecutors with additional tools to prosecute people who repeatedly break the law. The reforms put forth in today’s legislation include expanding the list of offenses that can provide grounds for a dangerousness hearing and closing certain loopholes at …
Read More »PODCAST: Mayor Mitchell on getting trees replaced on your street
New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell on the process of getting trees replaced on your street.
Read More »PODCAST: Mayor Mitchell on completing the Acushnet Riverwalk
New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell was asked when the Acushnet Riverwalk in the north end would be completed.
Read More »Mass. State Troopers Arrest Man Who Accosted a Mother and Her Son
At approximately 3:25 pm yesterday, Massachusetts State Police Troop H broadcast a report of an attempted abduction of a child near the bathrooms at Castle Island. Troopers responded and spoke to a woman who reported that a man whom she did not know approached her and members of her family …
Read More »Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Planning ISIS Inspired Attack
An Adams, Mass. man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield in connection with a plot to engage in terrorist activity inspired by and in the name of ISIS. This is the second man in the past 8 months who has been found guilty of committing terrorism in Massachusetts …
Read More »New Bedford Restaurants, Food for Tots raise $7,000 for SouthCoast Health pediatrics
August’s Food for Tots event raised more than $7,000 for pediatric services at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford. The event, which was held Thursday, August 16, in New Bedford, was the fifth in a series of Food for Tots fundraisers created to benefit Southcoast Health’s pediatric services, which are …
Read More »West Nile Virus detected in latest mosquito sample at Rural Cemetery in New Bedford
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) has notified the New Bedford Health Department of the finding of West Nile Virus in a primarily bird-biting mosquito sample obtained in the area of Rural Cemetery, located at 149 Dartmouth Street in New Bedford. The mosquito is of the curiex pipiens/restuans complex …
Read More »Police arrest fugitive from justice at Wareham Fire Headquarters
The following is a report from the Wareham Police Department: On Sunday, Sept. 2, at about 6:00 p.m., officers were requested to respond to the Wareham Fire Headquarters on Main Street for an unwanted party. At the scene, Officers Calib Larue and Charles Pillsbury encountered Alexander Moustafa, 27, of Midlothian, …
Read More »Middleborough woman arrested for resisting arrest with small child in the car
At about 6:45 p.m. Wareham police officer Nate Aronson was running radar in the area of Cranberry Highway near Red Brook Road when he pulled a vehicle over for speeding and issued the operator a citation. After the citation was issued, the operator stepped from her vehicle and allegedly became …
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