Do you love recreational fishing and want to help children with special needs? Register now for The Schwartz Center’s FISHING FOR A CAUSE® Striped Bass, Bluefish, and Fluke tournament, scheduled for June 26 and June 27, 2015. In this catch-and-release tournament, fishing grounds span from Cape Cod to Block Island …

The Greater New Bedford unemployment rate is much higher than the rest of Massachusetts, but believe it or not there really are a lot of jobs available for qualified applicants. Sometimes the barrier to a new job can be the lack of information on available job openings. To solve this, …

FBI agents and Massachusetts State Troopers assigned to the FBI’s Bank Robbery/Violent Crimes Task Force, along with the Taunton Police Department, are seeking the public’s assistance to identify a bank robber allegedly responsible for an armed robbery on December 24, 2014 at the First Citizens Federal Credit Union located at …

Still feeling motivated about your New Year’s resolution to exercise more or lose some weight? A great way to stick to your goal is to find other people who share it! Join the New Bedford Fitness Challenge this January with a friend or co-worker and lose weight while having fun …

The New Bedford High School Young Alumni Association was formally launched Monday at NBHS, where alumni were joined by School Committee Members Josh Amaral, Jack Livramento and Marlene Pollock. Co-chaired by alumni Justin Braga ’12 and Melissa Isidor ’13, now both students at Brown University, the NBHSYAA will act as …

On Saturday morning at approximately 10am members of the Organized Crime Intelligence Bureau executed a search warrant at an Earle apartment in New Bedford. This was the result of an investigation into a cocaine delivery service being operated in the north end of the city. The target of the investigation, …

The New Bedford Historical Society is hosting the Fifteenth Annual Community Read-a-thon of the first autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave written by Himself (1845). This event is being held in celebration of African American History Month and honors Douglass as one …

The Dock-U-Mentaries Film Series continues on Friday, January 16th at 7:00 PM with Tug Boat Annie. Dock-U-Mentaries is a co-production of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and the Working Waterfront Festival. Films about the working waterfront are screened on the third Friday of each month beginning at 7:00 PM …

On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 12:30 P.M. at an event at the Zeiterion Theatre (“The Z”), 684 Purchase St., New Bedford, Mayor Jon Mitchell, elected officials, and representatives of the staff and board of directors of the Zeiterion Theatre, Inc. will celebrate the completion of Phase I of the …

The Greater New Bedford unemployment rate is much higher than the rest of Massachusetts, but believe it or not there really are a lot of jobs available for qualified applicants. Sometimes the barrier to a new job can be the lack of information on available job openings. To solve this, …