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Posted inPublic health
The Light pauses COVID-19 weekly updates, historical stats remain
The Light will continue to monitor and report on COVID-19, but will pause weekly updates, including new cases in New Bedford, percentage of those vaccinated and average daily cases.
Posted inFishing industry
New Bedford fisherman pleads guilty to evading more than $431,000 in federal income taxes
He maintained a “primarily cash lifestyle,” according to court records, buying a car, paying rent and making other large purchases, “thereby seeking to avoid a paper trail of most of his income and expenditures.”
Posted inPublic health
Undocumented immigrants fall through the cracks with child lead poisoning
“Recent immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, and refugees without economic means tend to settle in the same low-income communities and therefore are more likely to be at risk of lead exposure.” — Mass. Department of Public Health statement.
Posted inWaterfront
South Coast lawmakers call for review of State Pier development deal
State Reps. William Straus, Antonio Cabral, Christopher Hendricks, Christopher Markey and Paul Schmid assert that MassDevelopment thwarted efforts by officials to obtain more information on the submitted proposals while the decision-making process was underway.
Posted inJack Spillane column
When is a City Council gathering public, and who should be able to see and hear it?
“It would be very hard to argue that this is not a public meeting when they are giving public notice of the meeting … It seems like an effort to skirt the open meeting law.” — Justin Silverman, the NEFAC executive director of the New England First Amendment Coalition
Posted inFishing industry
Fishermen gather in D.C. to press Congress for ‘catch share’ changes
“Anyone could have seen this coming. [Private equity] dominance over the fishing industry is an outcome of catch share policy that fishermen have warned of for decades.” — Jason Jarvis, a commercial fisherman in Rhode Island.
Posted inEducation
New Bedford school chief one of two finalists for Newton superintendent
Thomas Anderson remains under contract with New Bedford Public Schools, where he currently makes $215,000 per year, but School Committee members have indicated they would let Anderson out of his contract, and expect that he would take the Newton job.
Posted inFishing industry
Blue Harvest doubles down on groundfish after selling off scallop fleet
New Bedford-based Blue Harvest is the single-largest groundfish permit holder in New England. It holds permits for about 12% of all groundfish quota, which translates into about 46 million pounds of species like Atlantic cod, haddock, pollock and ocean perch for the current fishing year.
Posted inJourney to America
New Bedford immigrant finds business success after perilous trip from Guatemala
Morales is one of only a few Guatemalans in the area who have obtained American citizenship. Not only is she a naturalized U.S. citizen, but she also opened her own business — the Tortilleria Guatemalteco — on Acushnet Avenue.