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Posted inArts and Culture
Historic downtown theater could have become a parking lot
Built by the Zeitz family and opened in 1923, the Zeiterion was intended as a vaudeville showcase, but shortly changed its focus to screening silent movies and its name to the State Theatre. Its construction and lavish décor cost the equivalent of $12 million today.
Posted inOffshore Wind
Mayor, city leaders call on Healey to fight for offshore wind business
Letter: “Every East Coast state is now actively competing for investment, and nearly all of their governors have proclaimed that their state will become the industry’s epicenter.” And, other states “have competed more aggressively than Massachusetts.”
Posted inArts and Culture
New Bedford New Year’s Eve celebrations moving indoors
Waterfront fireworks still set for 8:30 p.m., despite rainy weather forecast
Posted inOffshore Wind
DPU rejects bid to scrap offshore wind contracts, approves them instead
Commonwealth Wind had filed a motion to dismiss its power purchase agreements, saying that the largest offshore wind farm in the state’s pipeline “cannot be financed and built” under the terms of those contracts.
Posted inWaterfront Development
Cuttyhunk ferry will stay at State Pier, stakeholders say
“A big part of what we’re trying to do will be enhanced by having additional ferry passengers, whether it’s Seastreak to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, or Jono’s [ferry] to Cuttyhunk. … We’re excited about the possibility of having Cuttyhunk operating at the State Pier for the long term.” — Ed Washburn, managing director of Coast Line Transfers
Posted inCommunity Voices
Essay: Faithful friend brings New Year’s message to The Ancient Scribe
No doubt something really big will happen here, sooner or later. Maybe it will be the wind industry but maybe it’ll be nuclear fusion, sooner or later. We’ll see. Foreign investment is big in our fishery. Let’s see how much capital gets invested in wind.
Posted inWomen's Health
Nonprofit to begin providing medication abortion services in New Bedford
“This is one more service that has been lacking in … sexual reproductive health services in southeastern Massachusetts.” — Julia Kehoe, president and CEO of Health Imperatives
Posted inInPerson
Alma del Mar’s DeLoach: ‘We are a school that serves all kids no matter what’
“I am a woman of color serving a community of children of color and that helps me understand challenges that they might be experiencing. But it also inspires me to see what happens when communities that have been historically underserved get the opportunities and resources to be able to reach their full potential.”
Posted inJack Spillane column
Clumsy effort results in outrageous wage increases for some New Bedford employees
The council ignored the human resources expert, and in the end, voted 10-0 in favor of the raises. What all the council’s shenanigans did was to raise the cost of these salaries by about a million dollars a year.