A look ahead at the week’s arts and culture events in New Bedford.
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Posted inCulture Cal
DON’T MISS: Buy Black outdoor market; opera at Seamen’s Bethel; comedy at the mill; Reggae on West Beach; Fab Four flashback
A look ahead at the week’s arts and culture events in New Bedford.
Posted inColumn
Class and race issues dominate the New Bedford redistricting debate
It is a battle over who gets to talk for Southeastern Massachusetts in Washington and Boston, and where the emphasis will be on the issues in New Bedford, Fall River, and even Cape Cod and the South Shore.
Posted inEducation
Community leaders decry lack of transparency from schools
After repeated public information requests, the School Department this week acknowledged that it had recorded 76 arrests of students and parents between 2017 and 2020.
Posted inEducation
New Bedford schools failed to report arrest data
In an email to The New Bedford Light, a spokesman acknowledged the schools have recorded a total of 76 arrests of students and parents between 2017 and 2020.
Posted inColumn
New Bedford suburbs lag far behind the state in vaccinations
Dartmouth’s fully vaccinated rate of 49% is 16 points lower than the statewide rate of 65%. And the rates in Acushnet, Fairhaven and Freetown are not much better, coming in at 54%, 57% and 57% respectively, as of Aug. 10.
Posted inCommunity Voices
Essay: A father who simply could not be silent
Eric Lindell knew nothing about what it meant to be Black in America, but he did know what it was like to be poor, to live in a broken home, to endure the silence of long unspoken trauma and to know something of what it meant to live in a world of other people’s ideas about who he was.
Posted inCulture Cal
DON’T MISS: Hip-hop fest; food truck and craft beer feast; Day of Portugal; downtown block party; Creature Feature
A look ahead at the week’s arts and culture events in New Bedford.
Posted inCommunity Voices
Comments: What do you think of mandatory vaccines and masks?
Members of the community weigh in on mandatory vaccines and face masks.
Posted inPandemic Watch
COVID-19 cases doubling in New Bedford
With vaccination rates low, health officials struggle to contain the virus and worry about “rough” times this fall.