On Thursday, the State Police High-Risk Victim Unit and the Lowell Police Department conducted a human trafficking sting operation at an area hotel. The focus of the operation was to recover underage girls, under the age of 18 and women who were being commercially sexually exploited. The investigation included an …
Read More »HELP WANTED: City of New Bedford seeking to fill a Water Works Utility Person vacancy
PAY: 14.78hr – $19.80hr Maintains and upkeeps forty-eight miles of watershed area property, including all buildings on Watershed area. Maintains watershed area including openings of roads, fire lanes, and streams. Maintains proper water flow of dams and streams. Repairs vandalized property such as gates, poles, fences, etc. Maintains grounds around …
Read More »Driver crashes into vacant home in Plainville
For reasons under investigation, a driver crashed into a vacant home on 64 East Bacon Street in Plainville, MA on Friday morning. “Good morning. Some of you were rerouted in your travels this morning. This is why. The home is 64 East Bacon Street. It was vacant, and for sale, …
Read More »Street sweeping, parking ban in New Bedford starts in April
The City of New Bedford will be starting its annual street sweeping program on April 5, 2018. There will be no parking on both sides of the street overnight from midnight Thursday to 6am Friday. Failure to follow the posted street sweeping signs will result in your vehicle being towed. …
Read More »13 Things To Do This Weekend (March 30 – April 01)
Can you believe these temperatures we’re looking at? Low to mid-50s sounds good doesn’t it? Overnights will be a bit brisk but will quickly warm up. While we’ll start out a little wet on Friday, we’ll have nothing but sunshine on Saturday and windy and a mixture sunny and cloudy …
Read More »National Parks Announce Change in Hours of Operation
Roger Williams National Memorial and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park announce a return to seven day a week operation of their visitor centers. Both visitor centers will be open to the public from 9 am to 5 pm seven days a week from April 1 through December 31. Roger …
Read More »Faces Of New Bedford #148: Warley Williams
Meet Warley Williams, 33-year-old Assistant Principal of Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech. After high school, Warley attended UMass Dartmouth hoping to graduate with a degree in Computer Science, but shortly into his first semester, he found out that his now wife was pregnant with their first child. Out of his father’s …
Read More »Superintendent Thomas Anderson’s Interview
Get to know your future New Bedford Public Schools Superintendent! Thomas Anderson discusses his vision and approach to leading the school department with Paul Santos Live. New Bedford School Committee members voted for Thomas Anderson as the next New Bedford Schools Superintendent. Thomas Anderson received six of the seven votes with …
Read More »Massachusetts police seeking location of 10-year old Girl
The Webster Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police are seeking a missing 10-year-old girl who is believed to be with her mother, who does not have legal custody of her. The girl, Lydia M. Davis, was reported missing by her father. Information developed to date suggest that Lydia was …
Read More »New Bedford police arrest man, take gun off street after responding to shots fired
New Bedford Police took an illegally possessed firearm off the street Wednesday, March 28 following an investigation after receiving reports of shots fired in the 60-block of Austin Street. Police responded to a report at about 1:40 a.m. of shots fired and to a Shotspotter activation in the area about …
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