A year after Chancellor Mark Fuller abruptly closed the New Bedford CVPA campus, students look for ways to keep arts in the city.
Author Archives: Jack Spillane
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Time for New Bedford to better integrate its schools
Let’s see if there is any groundswell in the city for more integration of New Bedford’s middle- and low-income neighborhoods into single schools.
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Two ways of looking at DA Paul Walsh Jr.’s legacy
Depending on their politics, people will debate the former district attorney’s tenure for a long time.
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Mayor’s housing plan is too little too late
New Bedford housing programs are helping a few hundred people a year while thousands continue to wait.
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Mitchell, planners fumble on fishermen’s memorial
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.
