United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) along with Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and a group of 11 colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which has suspended live interviews and U.S. Citizenship Oath of Allegiance Ceremonies …
Read More »Grab n’ Go meal distribution at Roosevelt moves to Jacobs, May 1
New Bedford Public Schools’ free Grab n’ Go student meal distribution program continues at Grab n’ Go locations throughout the city with one temporary change of location in the South End: on Friday, May 1, 2020, Grab n’ Go at Roosevelt Middle School will move to Jacobs Elementary School, which …
Read More »50,000+ masks made by Joseph Abboud to be distributed to vulnerable residents and frontline workers
The City of New Bedford will distribute more than 50,000 masks manufactured at Joseph Abboud Manufacturing Corporation in the City’s North End to New Bedford’s vulnerable populations and frontline workers to protect against the spread of COVID-19. New Bedford has ordered a total of 53,000 cloth masks from the designer …
Read More »Governor Baker extends non-essential business closures in Massachusetts to May 18th
Today, the Baker-Polito Administration extended the essential services emergency order to May 18th and launched a Reopening Advisory Board that will produce a plan to the Governor by May 18th. The Administration also announced that the Department of Public Health’s Stay At Home Advisory remains in effect and gatherings of …
Read More »New Bedford reports two more COVID-19 related deaths since Monday
Mayor Jon Mitchell’s office Tuesday reported 32 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases in New Bedford, bringing the total positive cases in the city to 535, up from 503 on Monday. Two more COVID-19 related deaths were also reported bringing the total to 15 in the city. According to Mayor Coogan, there …
Read More »Town of Acushnet and its first-responders receive donation of two barrels of hand sanitizer
“Former Acushnet Selectman David Wojnar made arrangements for the donation of two barrels of hand sanitizer that were shipped to town free of charge last week. One barrel was donated to Fairhaven first responders and the second kept in town for Acushnet’s public safety needs. With enough set aside for …
Read More »New Bedford’s Blue Harvest Fisheries re-opens after “enhanced cleaning and disinfection”
Last Thursday, Blue Harvest Fisheries at 40 Herman Melville Blvd in New Bedford was forced to close its doors by the New Bedford Board of Health after three of its employees tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. The business is now back open. The “cease and desist” order for the …
Read More »Somerville to fine people $300 for not wearing a mask
Katie Lannan State House News Service People who “willfully refuse to comply” with a new Somerville order requiring face coverings in public could be subject to a $300 fine, though Mayor Joe Curtatone said his city’s police, who will enforce the order, “are committed to compassionate policing” and will first …
Read More »Taunton’s Gene Hardy Flooring donates lunches to essential workers at Trucchi’s
Last week, the folks at Gene Hardy Flooring ordered lunch for all the employees at both Trucchi’s locations in Taunton. The food was provided by Liberty & Union Ale House, a popular restaurant that’s managed to adapt and stay up and running for takeout and delivery. A message on their …
Read More »Massachusetts coalition demands greater response to “Crisis of Inequity”
Colin A. Young State House News Service A group of medical providers, academics, and concerned citizens is calling on the governor to do more to address the “racial and economic disparities that have become a defining element of the COVID-19 pandemic” in Massachusetts. In a press release Monday, the group …
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