It is self-defeating to keep reporters at arm’s length. Who better to explain the city’s challenges than our long-term mayor?
Author Archives: Ken Hartnett
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South Coast Rail — reconnecting two cities after a long separation
On his first train ride from New Bedford to Boston, a 90-year-old mulls over the past and muses about the future.
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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.
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List of New Bedford Civil War casualties
RELATED STORY: New Bedford’s Civil War memorial still has important story to tell New Bedford men fell on land, and some at sea; they died at Antietam, at Bull Run, […]
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New Bedford’s Civil War memorial still has important story to tell
“Erected by the city of New Bedford as a tribute of gratitude to her sons who fell defending their country in the struggle with slavery and treason.”
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Essay: Remembering Kevin, Megan and Hank
Kevin Harrington and Megan Tench died alone and unexpectedly. Hank Seaman spent months of his last year in isolation from his friends and loved ones.