Events

The 43rd Annual New Bedford Half Marathon will take over downtown New Bedford on Sunday, March 15. The race will start at 11 am sharp. Male and female first place winners will take home $1,000. Per the organizers, spectators can watch the beginning of the race on Purchase Street, walk …

On Tuesday, March 3, at 9 a.m., the College of Nursing & Health Sciences will host “Impact of Adverse Childhood Events on Health Over the Lifecourse” in the Main Auditorium. The event will focus on how adversity affects health, from early childhood through adulthood. Numerous studies have shown that adverse …

Students presented their projects on international issues The UMass Dartmouth Portuguese Department, Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, and School of Education in the UMass Dartmouth College of Arts & Sciences hosted a delegation of graduate Education students from the University of the Azores. The students were joined by their instructor Graça Castanha …

by Sean McCarthy Todd Baptista knows what goes into an enjoyable evening of doo wop music. As the producer of dozens of doo wop concerts and the author of five books devoted to the musical genre, Baptista will once again enliven the stage of the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center with …

Junior Achievement of Southern Massachusetts (JA) and Title Sponsor, Bristol County Savings Bank, announce that six schools from the New Bedford area – Bishop Stang High School, Dartmouth High School, Fairhaven High School, Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School, Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School and New …

The New Bedford Department of Parks, Recreation and Beaches and New Bedford Science Cafe will offer an evening of stargazing – a free, hands-on astronomy event to be hosted at the Low Tide Yacht Club at Fort Taber Park. The event will be held Friday, February 28 from 7:00 p.m. …

Zeiterion Performing Arts Center marches into spring with a wide array of 15 concerts, shows, workshops, movies and more! The March line-up starts with the on-stage memoir County of Kings, the unbelievable true story of slam poet Lemon Anderson, and it culminates with a Buster Keaton double feature of silent …

The family of the Honorable Rosemary S. Tierney, former Mayor of New Bedford, has announced that her funeral will be held on Saturday, February 22 at 9:00 a.m. at St. Lawrence Martyr Church, 565 County Street.

The New Bedford Youth Ballet will perform an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book on Sunday, March 8 at the NBB Community Theater, 2343 Purchase Street in New Bedford. The first performance is scheduled for 1 p.m. with a second to follow at 2 p.m. All proceeds benefit the …

The Buttonwood Park Zoo is again hosting the “Wildlife Education Series”, a monthly educational program covering a variety of scientific topics, ranging from biology to animal behavior to conservation science. The events are geared to inquisitive individuals who are eager to learn and ask questions. The first lecture in the …