Public twice now tells the city to bring the iconic Anna Hyatt Huntington sculpture back to the city’s waterfront.
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Remembering the Songman of New Bedford
Paul Clayton, the man whom Bob Dylan once described as a “medium” that channeled the very essence of traditional songs from the sea and the mountains was born right down the road.
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The great New Bedford Retirement Board War
It’s all poor policy and it’s all unfair to both New Bedford’s working-class homeowners and its government retirees.
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Thumbs up to projects rebuilding New Bedford
Every year there’s a prickly battle at the City Council over approval of certain Community Preservation Committee projects.
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CVPA students bemoan loss of school they thought they attended
“You have baited my colleagues and I into moving across the country (and in many cases, across the world) under promise of certain educational and professional opportunities. By then freely electing to break this promise, you actively handicapped our educational and professional development.” — Student Matthew Napoli
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Local officials admit CVPA not coming back to New Bedford
Everyone, it seems, except Mayor Jon Mitchell, is now publicly conceding that the College of Visual and Performing Arts will never come back to its longtime home in the Star Store in downtown New Bedford.
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Bill do Carmo was New Bedford’s indispensable civil rights man
Cape Verdean leader “was an inspirational man. It’s pretty amazing what he accomplished in his lifetime.”
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City’s building department needs to build trust
In the last year, no less than three prominent local people — whose names you would all recognize if I wrote them — have told me in background conversations that New Bedford has a big problem with its inspection and permitting practices.
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New Bedford begins to look at new high school
Superintendent Andrew O’Leary says it takes 10 years to plan a new school and now is the time to start talking about replacing the high school. Will two 100-year-old elementary schools have to wait?
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The astounding fines that New Bedford landlords ignore
“We’re certainly willing to play every card we have,” Mitchell said. He contended that no mayor has done more to chase landlords for code violations than he has. And the city is cleaner than it has ever been.