Like to laugh so hard that you can’t breathe and have tears running down your face? Well, here’s your chance to have a blast while doing exactly that. On Friday, May 17 from 8:00pm-11:00pm Kilburn Mill at Clarks Cove (127 W Rodney French Blvd.) will be hosting a special comedy …
Read More »HELP WANTED: City of New Bedford is seeking to fill a Computer Operations Support Specialist position
PAY: $18.25hr – $25.54hr Responsibilities include, but not limited to, data processing and data entry using GIS, databases and Lucity; trains department employees in the use of systems; supports department employees in use of systems; assists in troubleshooting computer systems; diagnoses and resolves minor computer hardware/software problems. Experience with general …
Read More »Massachusetts State Troopers seize illegally possessed firearms and narcotics in joint effort
At approximately 8:30 p.m. Monday, Massachusetts State Police Troopers assigned to the Commonwealth Interstate Narcotics Reduction Enforcement Team-West (CINRET), the Massachusetts State Police Gang Unit, along with Holyoke Police and numerous other State Police units and arrested two men on illegal firearms and narcotics charges in Holyoke. The arrests followed …
Read More »New Bedford receives four new recreational marijuana applications
The City of New Bedford has received four new applications for recreational marijuana businesses in New Bedford: Metro Harvest, Inc. (based out of Bridgewater, MA) Proposed site in New Bedford: 606 Tarkiln Hill Road, New Bedford Solar Therapeutics (based out of Somerset, MA) Proposed site in New Bedford: 525 Church …
Read More »New Bedford Police Receive Public Safety Grant to Increase Enforcement of Seat Belt Law
The New Bedford Police Department received grant funding from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS) to increase seat belt enforcement patrols as part of the national Click It or Ticket campaign taking place May 13th-June 2nd. The New Bedford police will be joined by the Massachusetts State …
Read More »City of New Bedford to accept Lincoln Park original ticket booth donation
Mayor Mitchell submitting an order to the City Council for the City of New Bedford to accept a donation of an original ticket booth from the Lincoln Park Amusement Park in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, restored and given by John Nicolaci, Jr. The booth was restored to working condition at the …
Read More »Middleborough woman charged with dealing Fentanyl with $11,000 in cash
Chief Joseph Perkins reports that the Middleborough Police Department arrested and charged a woman with selling fentanyl and other drugs Tuesday afternoon. RAKEL OLAFSDOTTIR, AGE 28, OF MIDDLEBOROUGH was charged with: · Possession to Distribute a Class A Drug (Fentanyl) · Possession to Distribute a Class B Drug (Percocet) · …
Read More »New Bedford High School Concert Band wins at New York and New Jersey competitions
New Bedford High School Concert Band earned First Place in Division AA at the Music in the Parks Festival, held in Middletown, New Jersey, and Six Flags Great Adventure and Safari Park in Jackson, New Jersey. The band garnered a rating of “Excellent” in the competition. This is the second …
Read More »“Operation Ghost” results in 20 arrests, seizure of raw fentanyl, marijuana, Meth, Crack Cocaine, firearms, $112,000 in cash,
Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III, joined by local, state and federal law enforcement partners from the region, today held a press conference to announce the results of a year-long undercover investigation into a complex fentanyl trafficking ring operating in and around New Bedford. The extensive investigation, dubbed …
Read More »35-year old New Bedford man arrested for robbing Gas Express with knife
On Saturday, May 3, 2019, New Bedford Police Detectives Jason Gangi and Brian Rei were on patrol near Covell Street and Belleville Avenue, when they overheard a broadcast from The New Bedford Police Department’s Communication Division that an armed robbery had just occurred at Gas Express, located at 52 Tarkiln …
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