PAY: $49,233 – $61,546

Assists in the preparation and submission of the Five Year Consolidated Plan, the Annual Action Plan and the CAPER Report for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Collaborates with other program staff in initiating, undertaking and/or implementing programs, plans and services using a multidisciplinary approach that meet the needs of the community. Coordinates and facilitates a community planning processes, outreach and community engagement to solicit community input, develop comprehensive needs assessments and/or present initiatives.

Graduation from a college or university with a Bachelor’s degree in public administration, urban/regional planning, or closely related field. At least two years of work experience in a related field. Two years of related experience in a community planning capacity; or any equivalent combination of education and progressively responsible experience, with additional work experience substituting for the required education on a year-for-year basis. Criminal Offender Record Investigation (CORI) background check mandatory.

For application/complete job description, please visit www.newbedford-ma.gov or contact the Personnel Dept., 133 William St., Room 212, 508-979-1444. Applications will be accepted until a suitable candidate is found. New Bedford has a residency requirement. EEO

THIS JOB POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

PAY: $16.04 – $21.84/hr

Maintenance of specialized clerical work related to department accounts and responsibility of more difficult phases of account maintenance work. Prepares payroll for department. Maintains records and other payroll liabilities. Makes general ledger entries to correct accounts. Accounts for receipt and disbursement of cash transactions and cash accounts. Processes and verifies accuracy of all department accounts. Prepares warrants and purchase orders. Responsible for assignment and oversight of daily activities of the cashiers.

Graduation from a high school or GED equivalent with specialized course work in general office practices such as typing, accounting, data processing, and two years of increasingly responsible related experience; or any equivalent combination of education and experience. Must have a Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) check, mandatory by MGL Chapter 6 Sec. 172C.

For application/complete job description, please visit www.newbedford-ma.gov or contact the Personnel Dept., 133 William St., Room 212, 508-979-1444. Applications will be accepted until a suitable candidate is found. New Bedford has a residency requirement. EEO

The Massachusetts State Police, as part of the Department’s ongoing audit of overtime earnings, have identified discrepancies between overtime pay earned and actual hours worked for four additional Department members.

As with other members whose discretionary overtime shifts were flagged by Department investigators, State Police opened Internal Affairs cases for the four members and referred information related to the alleged discrepancies to state and federal prosecutors for their review for potential prosecution.

The Department today relieved the four personnel of duty temporarily and is scheduling internal hearings to determine what their duty status will be while internal and external investigations into their overtime shifts are conducted.

“Today’s actions are the result of our continued review of records and data indicative of whether Department members were present and working overtime shifts for which they were paid,” said Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police. “Our commitment to the public, and to the vast majority of Troopers who conduct themselves with integrity and dedication to duty every day, is to identify anyone who has violated their oath, and we continue to do just that.”

The audit of discretionary overtime traffic enforcement shifts is continuing amid numerous other reforms the Department is implementing, including installation of GPS systems in cruisers, audits of the 50 highest earners for each quarter, and a pilot program for body cameras expected to be in place by early next year.

The discrepancies announced today stem from certain traffic enforcement overtime shifts the four were assigned to work when they were members of the former Troop E. The Department earlier this year moved the four barracks responsible for patrolling the Massachusetts Turnpike and the metropolitan tunnels system to three geographic troops.

The four additional members announced today bring the number of department members for whom the Department has uncovered varying numbers of suspect overtime shifts – and whose names were referred to the United States Attorney and state Attorney General for criminal investigation – to 46.

Clinical Research Coordinator
Dartmouth, MA
Responsibilities: Seeking a highly motivated candidate for the position of full-time Clinical Research Coordinator for a busy research site. This position will offer benefits.

The candidate for this position must:

– Have strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task
– Have the ability to work independently as well as with a team.
– Demonstrate the ability to follow protocols and procedures as well as FDA, GCP and SOP guidelines.
– Be able to recruit and enroll patients into studies and assist with patient care.
– Coordinate and perform all study related procedures including but not limited to ECGs, vital signs, and pulmonary function testing.
– Obtain and prepare laboratory specimens.
– Maintain regulatory documents.
– Complete and file paperwork as necessary for each patient and make required phone calls.
– Be flexible in work schedule and overtime if necessary. Saturday mornings required.
– Be able to travel to meetings when required.
– Have professional manner and good computer and communication skills.
– Assist with all research related tasks as needed.
– Have or be willing to obtain CPR certification and phlebotomy training.

Please scan or fax resume to Attn. Debra Macedo, (Fax) 508-984-5574 or (Email) dmacedo@nemra-us.com

A 35-year-old New Bedford man who stabbed his former roommate, causing serious injury to the victim, was sentenced to serve eight to 12 years in state prison last week in Fall River Superior Court, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced.

David Figueroa pleaded guilty to a multi-count indictment, charging him with assault and battery on a person over 60, breaking and entering during the daytime, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing substantial injury, intimidation of a witness, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and assault and battery.

On July 11, 2015 at 3:19pm New Bedford Police received a 911 call from the 63-year-old stabbing victim. The victim told the 911 dispatcher that he had been stabbed by his former roommate multiple times and needed help immediately. The victim was found by first responders lying on his living room floor on Alva Street, covered in blood. The victim was bleeding from his neck, with multiple stab wounds and facial injuries. The victim was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital for treatment of stab wounds to his left side, right side and back side of the neck. He also suffered from defensive stab wounds to his hand, a broken orbital bone, a broken nose and a fracture to right cheek. The victim spent a week in the hospital after the violent attack.

Police spoke to the victim at the hospital, where he told them the defendant opened & entered through the back slider door, and demanded money the defendant claimed the victim owed him. During the investigation, police learned the defendant has lost a lawsuit against the victim for rent money he claimed was owed to him. When the victim refused to give the defendant any money, the defendant pushed the victim over a recliner and began to punch him repeatedly in the face. The defendant then went to the kitchen, armed himself with a steak knife & repeatedly stabbed the victim in the neck area.

The defendant was located two weeks later and arrested. During the pendency of the case, the defendant raised an alibi defense. He claimed he was at Bridgewater State University at the time of crime taking a tour of the campus with his girlfriend, her daughter, and her daughter’s friend.

After about two years, the alibi witnesses told investigators the truth about the events of the day in question. The witnesses told police that on the way to Bridgewater, the defendant told them to stop in the area of the victim’s home. After watching him enter the victim’s home through the back door, the witnesses told police that the defendant re-entered the car within a few minutes with blood on his hands and clothes. He told the witnesses to drive off and told them that, if asked, they are going to tell police that he was with them the entire day.

During the interview with police, the defendant’s girlfriend also told police of a past unreported incident of domestic violence. She told police he choked and punched her, after accusing her of looking at the man next door.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Jeanne Veenstra and the state prison sentence was handed down by Judge Karen Green. Judge Green also placed the defendant on probation for an additional 18 months.

“This is unconscionable violence inflicted upon a 63-year-old man,” District Attorney Quinn said. “This is a very dangerous defendant who needed to be removed from society.”

PAY: $15.46hr – $20.92hr

Applies basic accounting principles in maintaining financial accounts and records; prepares and verifies accuracy of bills; prepares payrolls, makes general ledger entries in the Munis payroll system; accounts for receipt and disbursement of cash transactions and cash accounts; reconciles cash books and bank statements; operates adding machines and simple calculators in connection with this work.

Graduation from a high school or GED equivalent with specialized course work in general office practices such as typing, accounting, data processing, and two (2) years of increasingly responsible related experience; or any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Ability to perform arithmetic computations accurately and quickly; ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing; ability to work under pressure and/or frequent interruptions.

For more information, please visit:

Employment Opportunities

Applications will be accepted until a suitable candidate is found. EEO

New Bedford has a residency requirement.

New Bedford’s history has always been characterized by strong shades of light and dark. More than most cities our highs are very high and our lows are really low and there seems to be an aversion to that middle gray area. It just seems to be a characteristic of New Bedford throughout its history and continues today.

We’ve had summers when shooting innocent moms and grandmoms in gang retaliation, a highway serial killer, and several mob riots and mob hitmen like Joseph “The Animal” Barboza. Early in the city’s history religious intolerance was commonplace especially towards Quakers, we’ve had several brothels, and police brutality during protests like that during the textile mill protests in the 1920s.

Yet, New Bedford is always doing wonderful amazing things – from building its “spiritual” and common parks, having frequent pollution clean-ups and promoting a multi-cultural identity.

Through the years New Bedford has welcomed the Germans, Portuguese, Jewish, Dutch, and French-Canadians, the Puerto Rican, Cape Verdeans, Brazilian, Guatemalans and many other ethnic groups. For a city whose population has hovered under 100,000 for quite a while (we’ve had over 200,000 during the height of whaling) the diversity is a rich one.

Social activism is alive an well and New Bedford has always promoted tolerance and fought for equal rights. The city was an Abolitionist hotbed leading up to the civil war and after it, there was an underground railroad, the African-American 54th Regiment and in modern times groups like the New Bedford Historical Society and 3rd EyE Unlimited. Great figures and personalities like Lewis Temple, Frederick Douglass, Paul Cuffee, James Reed and Robert Carter have all left indelible marks on the city’s identity. Some amazing writers and artists have also – folks like Samuel Twain, Herman Melville, Arthur Moniz, and Albert Bierstadt.

We brought the world light, products from the whaling industry, amazing art and artists, The Tavares, Quinn Sullivan, the movie Passionada, and on and on. Anyhow, I blather – you get the point.

One of the “dark” parts of the city’s history is one of the aforementioned brothels on Palmer’s Island named after an original settler of Old Dartmouth, William Palmer. The island’s dark history began when it served as an internment camp during the King Philip’s War in the mid-1670s. This sort of set the tone for the coming years when in its heyday, Palmer’s Island was a very popular destination for what was referred to as a “pleasure resort.” Which is kind of like calling a garbage man a waste management specialist – many locals preferred to call it a whorehouse or drug den.

The 6-acre Palmer’s Island had a stone rubble lighthouse erected in 1849 by architect Charles M. Pierce using $3,500 allocated from Congress and slowly adjacent structures were added. Shortly after the Civil War, the island was a sort of a small hamlet with a hotel, dance hall, and wharf so that local steamer services could use the island as a pit-stop. This attracted whalers, sailors and shady characters to the island, so much so that lighthouse officials decided that the best way to keep the riff-raff out was to surround it in barb wire in 1883.

Near the end of the 1880s the lighthouse notably served alongside with the New Bedford/Fairhaven Bridge’s light to help incoming sea vessels safely navigate past Butler Flats’ rocky shoals. It was around this time that the island had such a reputation for debauchery that in 1890 it was closed down.

At the turn of the century many changes were made to the lighthouse itself – a new deck and stairs, boat slip, an improved fog bell with automated machinery, oil house, riprap stones barrier offering protection from inevitable storms, and a covered walkway.

The surrounding land was eventually purchased and turned into an amusement park, but it did poorly because there were issues with the wharf (I couldn’t find the specifics for it in the historical documents) that made coming and going an issue. Lack of visitors and poor revenue led to the park’s demise.

The historic hurricane of ’38 came along and destroyed all the structures on the island excepting the lighthouse. Use of the lighthouse was discontinued in the 1960s since the service it provided was no longer needed when the hurricane barrier was built. The shoals were no longer a danger and the hurricane barrier’s lights provided all the beacon needed for captains making the lighthouse redundant.

In 1980, the Palmer Island Light Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

New Bedford Parks, Recreation & Beaches Play in the Park and Summer Food Service Program offers FREE, healthy lunch and activities to New Bedford youth until Aug. 24. Here are some highlights from their kick-off event at the Andrea McCoy Recreation Center. Full details here.

Ready to cool off with a delicious drink? Here’s a look at Java Shack’s Mudslide Latte.

Here’s a look at Restaurante Algarve’s shrimp Mozambique! They are located on 128 County Street in the south end of New Bedford.