Events

Head to No Problemo (813 Purchase Street) Saturday, June 22 at 8:00pm to eat delicious food, listen to live music and donate to a great local afterschool program. Reel Serious Documentary Film Program is partnering up this summer with the Andrea McCoy Recreation Center and later this fall with Seven …

Mayor Jon Mitchell announced today that applications for the 2013 Mayor’s Learn and Serve Summer Youth Program are now available. Applications can be downloaded from the City’s website and hard copies are available at the Mayor’s Office in City Hall. Learn and Serve, formerly the Mayor’s Summer Youth Enrichment Program, …

This year is the 45th Annual Whaling City Festival, an event with fun filled family oriented activities, live music, Finelli Amusements, professional wrestling, car and bike show, great food and more. This is new president Allen Richard’s second year as president and he is continuing to prune certain elements and …

From June 30th – July 6th, 2013 is the 41st Cape Verdean Recognition Week in New Bedford. Here is a list of events: June 30th, Sunday at 12:15 pm – Memorial Mass at Our Lady of Assumption Church for the deceased members of the Cape Verdean Recognition Committee. July 1st, …

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park will host a Flag Day concert featuring New Bedford elementary school students on Friday, June 14 at 10:30 AM. The band will play patriotic songs as well as other musical pieces. The concert will take place in the national park garden at 33 William …

The Dock-U-Mentaries Film Series continues on Friday, June 21 with No Pretty Prayer. 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 in the theater …

Mattapoisett – More than 10 families on Brandt Island will host yard sales on June 15 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain date is June 16. Yard sales will take place throughout the neighborhood at homes on Brandt Island Road, Brandt Beach Avenue, Kerwin Avenue, Oceanview Avenue and Pinehurst …

In September 2013, the Working Waterfront Festival will mark its’ tenth anniversary. To celebrate, we are presenting Portholes, a series of free, monthly programs designed to engage residents and members of the commercial fishing industry in conversations about critical issues facing the working waterfront. Each month’s programming centers around a …

The weekend outlook, in terms of weather, is a wet one. There is an 80% chance of rain on Saturday and Sunday, but the skies will clear up, and it will warm up, on Sunday. Saturday will have morning showers. As we’ve mentioned in the past, we are hardy New …

Who doesn’t like food?!? Explore foods and recipes of the 1850s on Thursday, June 13, for AHA! (Art, History & Architecture) night, as Ruth and Abby, the national park’s 1850s ladies, chat about their favorite dishes and family recipes. This month’s theme is City Views. The event will take place …