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At the time of this writing, the GoFundMe fundraiser for Rosemary Heath has hit $89,558. By the time you are reading this it should be well over $90,000. Here’s our interview with her before she donated a kidney: The GoFundMe details: “I am Elizabeth Kenney my sister is Rosemary Heath …

“Calling all cAHs…Calling all cAHs With Thanksgiving fastly approaching, DPD would like to invite this turkey to have dinner with us. However, we have one small problem: We don’t YET know who she is. Today, after entering Kohl’s, she proceeded to gobble up about $500 worth of merchandise, before excusing …

With the holiday season officially upon us and many more drivers on the roadways, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III is calling attention to the rapidly increasing number of motor vehicle fatalities plaguing Bristol County. Since September 12th, 24 people have lost their lives as a result of …

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell made the following statement regarding the closure of City on a Hill Charter School: “I am grateful that Commissioner Riley has moved to end the operations of a school whose record of low achievement and high attrition was exactly what many of us predicted when …

Many have noticed their properties being assessed at higher and higher values, especially recently. New Bedford assesses all properties each year by the first day of January. Every three years this information is sent to the Department of Revenue and certified. The City of New Bedford prides itself on its …

The good news: A local senior citizen was well enough to be discharged from a psychiatric hospital. The bad news: The octogenarian was sent home with no medication and, without proper identification, had no way to obtain it. “If he were to just walk into a CVS, he’d have no …

“On Saturday, November 23, 2019, Massachusetts Environmental Police Officers assisted the Capron Zoo and the New England Wildlife Center with the immobilization and transport of Kayla, a 15-year-old lioness, to the Massachusetts Veterinary Referral facility in Woburn. Kayla had recently been experiencing medical issues which resulted in the need for …

NB Alert, the City’s new emergency notification system, will run a test on landline telephones on Tuesday, November 26, at 4:00 p.m. Residents who have signed up with their cell phone numbers will also receive the test call. Last month, the City of New Bedford launched NB Alert, a new …

During the Civil War, in 1862, the United States created a piece of legislative history entitled The Homestead Act. This important piece of American history served many purposes and essentially said that any U.S. citizen or an intended citizen could claim a parcel of land up to 160 acres in …

Recently, in three separate and unrelated incidents police officers in Wareham have been assaulted by females. On Tuesday, November 12, at about 7:21 a.m., Officer Justin Silveira observed a motor vehicle violation on Marion Road near High Street. After stopping the car he determined that the operator’s driver’s license was …