New report lists 24 recommendations to improve suicide prevention, including more privacy during inmates’ first screening; getting nurses involved in screening at Ash Street; and more suicide prevention training.
Author Archives: Kellen Riell
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Video: SouthCoast to Boston DATTCO bus route invaluable to passengers
SouthCoast to Boston bus route no longer profitable, but invaluable to South Coast passengers
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Comments to The Light: Sheriff, rooming house fire, ballot questions and book banning top of mind
Public weighs in on hot topics: “No one has the right to tell someone what they can and cannot read,” writes one reader.
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Suzanne de Vegh employs sound strategies to re-energize NBAM
“We want to stimulate people intellectually and emotionally. We want to engage their senses in new and different ways, and raise consciousness on all kinds of different levels.” — Suzanne de Vegh, executive director of New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks!
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Opinion: Local coalition calls Texas abortion pill decision an ‘egregious ruling’
Our Bodies Our Lives is concerned for maternal health care for low-income residents of the South Coast, who are strategically disadvantaged by limited resources and inattentive health systems.
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Gov. Healey issues order to protect access to abortion pill
The governor’s office also announced that the University of Massachusetts Amherst ordered 15,000 doses of mifepristone last week, to arrive in the Bay State this week, to stockpile in event of a shortage.
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Opinion: Keep up the momentum for redevelopment of State Pier
New Bedford Economic Development Council: Despite some of the controversy surrounding input into MassDevelopment’s RFP for the site, we encourage the Healey administration to continue driving this initiative forward. We support the process MassDevelopment has followed, and we strongly endorse the project proposal.
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Letters to The Light: International Women’s Day, ballot questions and personal memories
At the Women’s Alliance event, “We heard the passionate and powerful voices of speakers, spoken words from young students and notable poets, as well as vocalists all relating to the issues facing women and families throughout history and what’s happening around us now.”
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Former New Bedford Whaling Museum worker indicted in thefts of historical artifacts
Robert Burchell, who worked for the museum for about a year before he was arrested in January, is accused of selling or trying to sell stolen items worth more than $1,200 on 19 occasions, according to the DA’s office.
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A mother’s anguish: Two sons lost to drug overdoses
Dartmouth mom Tuesday Desrochers mourns her sons Maxwell, who died this month, and Caleb who died in 2017. “I just started screaming because there’s no way I could have lost two.”