Life is full of mysteries and no one is more curious than a child. In the early stages of life, children are searching for an identity, are full of wonder and have lots of questions…and children ask some of the best! Where do we go when we die? How did …
Read More »Opinion – Taking Things For Granted
We have supermarkets that have prepared food that we need only heat up. It wasn’t till I had an experience with someone from another country at a grocery store that I realized how easy everything became for us. Charity isn’t a seasonal thing. Although it may seem like it is. …
Read More »Faunce Corner Nutrition – brings decades of experience to the weight loss, sports nutrition, and bariatric communities
Are you one of those that hops from one diet to another? Trying any trend possible to trim off some weight? How about simply eating better or living a healthy lifestyle? Are you scheduled for bariatric surgery or have had it done already? Perhaps, you’re an athlete looking to supplement …
Read More »Opinion: what is the real meaning of Christmas?
By Brett McCleod Christmas. It’s celebrated yearly by families across the globe, probably including your own and many of your friends’. A simple Google search defines Christmas as “the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ’s birth, held on December 25 in the Western Church.” Growing up I questioned why my friends …
Read More »20 Things to do this Weekend (Dec 19- Dec 21)
We have a relatively pleasant weekend in store for us. Friday and Saturday we will may only reach a high of 40 degrees, but it will be generally sunny. Sunday will be warmer than the first two days, but rain and drizzle is possible. That will hardly slow us down! …
Read More »24 Things to do this Weekend (Dec 12- Dec 14)
This weekend is made up of pretty mild temperatures. While we will experience lows below freezing, each day will warm up into the 40s. If you’re a fan of wearing thermals, hoodies, or flannels, you will be thrilled. However, Saturday will experience something that only happens on few corners of …
Read More »Opinion: Ferguson and Massachusetts, What can we learn?
Firstly, I know this is a controversial topic so believe me when I say I am reporting everything here as objectively as possible. In fact, I would not have even considered doing an article on this topic, not because it doesn’t matter, but because until outgoing Governor Deval Patrick spoke …
Read More »A Look at Chanukah, an Unfortunately Underrepresented Holiday
As a kid I was more fortunate than most around the holidays, due to the fact that I got to celebrate both Christmas and Chanukah. Chanukah, or Hanukkah, or Hanukah or whatever other way you choose to spell it, is commonly known as the Festival of Lights and is one …
Read More »Downtown icon Cafe Arpeggio making people happy for over a decade!
Hmmmmm….smell that fresh brewed cup of Joe? The melted Boursin cheese? Aromas of a variety of fresh baked muffins? Ogle those grand bowls of salad packed with carefully trimmed and selected vegetables sourced from local farms? The rows of hand made ice cream. This is no dream. This is downtown’s …
Read More »Stories of Family and Community in New Bedford’s Fishing Industry to be Shared
Over the past ten years the Working Waterfront Festival has recorded every performance and conversation on our stages, creating a rich audio archive of music, fisher poetry, storytelling, and more. This year we were fortunate to receive funding from Mass Humanities to support the work of a Scholar in Residence, …
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