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University identified as “Better for Veterans” due to support services and campus culture. UMass Dartmouth was chosen as a 2019-2020 Military Friendly School. The Military Friendly Schools list has come to set the standard for higher education institutions to provide the best opportunities for veterans and their spouses. This prestigious …

Meet Angelee Contreras, 33-year-old owner of Privy Boutique. Angelee grew up as a first generation citizen, with her father coming from Spain and her mom from Puerto Rico. Her parents always worked hard to provide for their children and taught them the importance of hard work ethics. This push Angelee …

An Everett man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) of more than $1.7 million. Edison Delarosa, 53, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. to two years in prison, …

Due to the continued frigid temperatures, the overflow at 71 Division Street will be opened again tonight. All inquiries can be forwarded to 1-800-homeless and Sister Rose House.

An 18-year-old New Bedford man who fired an illegal gun outside of a Thomspon Street home during the middle of the day in March 2017 was convicted of a litany of charge after a trial held in New Bedford Juvenile Court last week, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn …

PAY: $51,693 – $64,622 Monitors and coordinates programs and activities and develops a strategic plan using the strategic prevention framework to prevent the use of alcohol, opioids, prescription drugs, and other drug use through local policy, practice, systems and environmental change. Under the direction of the Director of the Board …

“To Whom it may Concern: I am writing to you concerning the New Bedford Hurricane Dike. I had a vision this morning of cement statues, standing at attention, facing the ocean front. Each one represents a human soul who was lost at sea thru the years, be it whaling, or …

Last Monday’s temperatures were seasonal for a midwinter afternoon on the south coast. But inside the sprawling cafeteria at Keith Middle School, the scene looked like command headquarters for polar vortex preparation, with hundreds of coats, hats, gloves and other winter clothing worth $6000, stacked on tables as far as …

On February 10th, New Bedford’s annual “Love Your Heart” Day will offer free blood pressure screenings to residents at more than a dozen participating sites from 9:00am-1:00pm. Communities and neighborhoods throughout the City of New Bedford will once again join a growing national movement to “Love Your Heart” on February …

Tonight at approximately 5:40 p.m. a 28-year-old Cambridge woman called the State Police-Brighton Barracks to report that her 8-day-old baby boy was not breathing. The mother and grandmother were traveling in a sports utility vehicle on Soldiers Field Road in Boston, with the grandmother and infant in the back seat, …