As we head into a brand new week, let’s check out the information from this previous week.
Riverside Park’s standing pond goes to be reconnected to the Acushnet River to recreate a salt marsh and restore habitat in a mission that’s getting a $50,000 serving to hand. The mission is an element of a bigger effort to revive the New Bedford Harbor, a Superfund web site that’s now 99% cleaned up. Restoration will create a dynamic, wholesome salt marsh habitat and is a part of the bigger RiverWalk leisure path.
Dartmouth’s 2025 Fall City Assembly handed all 14 articles on the warrant Tuesday evening, Oct. 21, at Dartmouth Excessive Faculty, together with one which modifications how governing our bodies introduce new guidelines and rules, and one other to steadiness a spending deficit after a troublesome yr when it got here to supplying sufficient water for the city.
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Matt Spaulding who initially opened Whaler’s Tavern on N Water Avenue in New Bedford as a chef, has now purchased the bulk share of the downtown restaurant and plans on making some modifications.
Quahog Republic Whaler’s Tavern on Water Avenue is getting a swap in possession by a well-recognized face who hopes to vary the restaurant into an entrée-based date evening spot.
Matt Spaulding, a veteran of the Quahog Republic group, has formally stepped into possession after working on and off with the restaurant since its opening 25 years in the past.
These modifications are coming. Longtime chef takes possession of Whaler’s Tavern in New Bedford.
Crews proceed work on the brand new De Valles faculty being constructed in New Bedford.
With the metal framing for New Bedford’s new Congdon-Devalles Elementary Faculty within the metropolis’s South Finish now accomplished, issues look like on monitor for the district’s projected January 2027 opening.
The brand new faculty — at 350 Bolton St. — will change the Congdon and DeValles elementary faculties, each in New Bedford’s South Finish. Congdon stands among the many metropolis’s oldest faculty buildings, one in every of a number of in-built 1907.
What’s particular in regards to the constructing? The Congdon-DeValles faculty will likely be a New Bedford first.
The gang at New Bedford’s second No Kings protest was greater than twice the scale of the primary 4 months in the past.
The gang at New Bedford’s second “No Kings” protest was greater than twice the scale of the primary one 4 months in the past.
And passing motorists chimed in with sustained honking in help at a far better price – extra appeared to beep than to not beep – as they drove by the protesters who lined up alongside Rockdale Avenue in entrance of Buttonwood Park.
Although their issues have been severe, there have been many smiles, cheers and hugs shared among the many individuals, estimated at over 1,000.
New Bedford: Second No Kings protest doubles the scale of the primary
A employee is seen putting in a base coat on the flooring of a third-floor house as seen via a set of historic doorways of the longer term Elmwater Touchdown house advanced on the intersection of Elm Avenue and N Water Avenue in New Bedford.
The rehabilitation of the historic constructing at 89 North Water St. and its transformation into 19 flats is progressing.
Whereas primarily within the lodge enterprise, that is the second residential constructing Sean Lafrance has overseen as director of services for Lafrance Hospitality of Westport.
The mission, anticipated to be full on the finish of this yr, will function 15 one-bedroom and 4 two-bedroom flats.
Housing: Historic N. Water Avenue constructing being remodeled into 19 flats
NTSB officers doc the state of the fuselage of the deadly aircraft crash on I-195 in Dartmouth.
Six 911 calls launched by the Dartmouth Police Division from the day of the Oct. 13 aircraft crash on Interstate 195 paint an image of astonishment and confusion. One caller, a paramedic, received out of his automobile to see if the individuals contained in the aircraft might be rescued.
The crash stays below investigation by the Nationwide Transportation Security Board.
A paramedic tried to assist: 911 calls from Dartmouth aircraft crash present shock, confusion.
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