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NO SNOW is this weekend’s theme! On Saturday we’ll reach almost 50 degrees! We’ll be above freezing temperatures during each day, with no precipitation forecasted. The nights will still be a bit chilly and dip below freezing, but nothing we New Englanders can’t handle. The entire weekend will have intermittent …

By Jordis Brown This is to all the single mothers. The mothers of young children who are faced with the difficulty of not sharing the physical and emotional hardships and triumphs of being a parent. For whatever reason or whatever path that has brought you to where you are, I wish …

By Jordis Brown Supplementing public education is the job you unwittingly signed up for the second you sent your little one to school. Small classroom sizes, well trained teachers, and being a PTO all star isn’t a sure fire cure to your child doing well in school. It’s you! If …

Anyone else feel it is time for the Greater New Bedford area to have an iPhone/Android application that keeps us informed about critical news and information? New Bedford Guide is looking to develop a phone application that provides: Alerts for parking bans Alerts for school closings and delays and other …

by Jennifer Hollie Bowles In January of 2013, my husband and I moved from Knoxville, TN to Taunton, MA for employment reasons. Roughly one year later, we moved into our first home on Shawmut Avenue in New Bedford. I had lived most of my life in Knoxville area, attending college, …

by Jennifer Hollie Bowles The Moon in Astrology is connected to the powerful feminine qualities of change. Unlike the Sun, which resides in a particular sign for about a month, the Moon travels quickly from one sign to the next. The Moon is intimately involved with water and the ebb …

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We’re in March this weekend!! That means Spring is right around the corner. That means less and less snow, right? Right, guys? Why is there an echo?! Last weekend was nice, with mild temperatures. This weekend tanked a bit, in that department. We’ll only go above freezing on Saturday with …

Here’s the news you don’t get in mainstream media. Remember, you heard it here first. In conjunction with and protest of the 100th Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, a group called Vegetables Are Food! will hold its 1st Annual Madeira Fast this coming August. In an online, low carbon footprint …

by Joyce Rowley When the Department of Infrastructure painted all the electrical boxes black last summer, Councilor Joe Lopes couldn’t believe it. Lopes had commissioned artists to paint two boxes, one on Rte. 18 and one in front of the Portuguese Club in the South End of New Bedford, based …