Politics

New Bedford Police Union President Hank Turgeon published the results of a survey conducted with New Bedford Police Union members that paint a picture of low morale and lack of confidence in City leadership that includes Mayor Jon Mitchell and New Bedford Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro. For example, 216 of …

The following is a letter that was sent to New Bedford Police Union members from the New Bedford Police Union President Hank Turgeon: Brothers & Sisters, Recently the City hired a private company, to conduct an “independent study” of our department and in that extensive study lasting over a year …

Since the start of the Stop & Shop strike, I have not gone grocery shopping at any of the Stop & Shop locations. It was my grocery store of choice before the strike, but I always give the workers of any strike the benefit of the doubt until they prove …

Last October, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mithcell submitted ordinance changes that would fine owners of clothing donation bins $300 for not maintaining them and allowing them to overflow. After committee discussion and votes, this evening the New Bedford City Council takes up the proposed ordinance changes that would fine unattended …

New Bedford Mayor Mitchell submitted a loan order to the City Council, appropriating $2,266,968.00 for Accelerated Repair Projects at the John Avery Parker Elementary School and Trinity Day Academy. The loan order will be taken up by the City Council this evening at 7pm. The 43-page report can be read …

The following letter was submitted to us from Ericca Kennedy of Whisk & JANE, one of the partners attempting to open a recreational marijuana business in New Bedford: To the Community of New Bedford, As I sit here, head spinning over last nights ZBA denial, my emotions mimic this morning’s …

Alma del Mar’s Board of Trustees voted Monday evening to approve a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of New Bedford to open a new, neighborhood-enrolled charter public school that will grow over four years to serve 450 children in grades K-8. In January, Alma received approval from the …

A Rockland woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for stealing Social Security benefits. Catherine M. Anzalone, 55, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr. to 12 months of home confinement, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $155,736 in restitution …

On Tuesday, March 5, at about 7:30 p.m. Officer James White and Kyle Gomes while on patrol, observed a red Ford F-150 with damage to its passenger side mirror, in the area of the Narrows Bridge. This vehicle matched the description of the one which had struck a woman on …

In an email dated Feb 13, 2019, Worley Beds Factory Outlet owner Martha Worley voiced her opposition to New Bedford City Council President Linda Morad. “I would like to express in the strongest terms my opposition to the efforts being made to accommodate a recreational cannabis business at 161 Popes …