The rebirth of the historic building, empty for 40 years, stands to bolster and serve the mostly immigrant community in the near North End.
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Posted inAddiction Factor
Join The Light for a Community Conversation on addiction recovery
The conversation begins at 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 14, in the New Bedford Public Library’s third-floor meeting room.
Posted inJack Spillane column
The Light on Radio: Absent landlords, women and the Feast and New Bedford’s role in offshore wind
The New Bedford Light columnist Jack Spillane joined Jim Phillips on WBSM’s Townsquare Sunday to talk about the issues that matter to the city.
Posted inThe Chat with Jack Spillane
‘I want all of the schools in the state to have librarians’
The Light gathered librarians, directors, and school administrators to discuss the state of school libraries and their future. They are unified. Libraries offer “a social and emotional support space in the school.”
Posted inCommunity Voices
Comments to The Light: Marijuana possession pardons ‘fair, humane’
Reader: “Once again Massachusetts will lead in removing an unnecessary and unfair impediment that has been shown to disproportionately penalize certain less fortunate members of society.”
Posted inwe asked, you answered
The Feast and accusations of gender discrimination: ‘That’s messed up’
Multimedia reporter Eleonora Bianchi asked the public about their take on whether women should be allowed to participate in the planning of the annual festival.
Posted inOffshore Wind
Sorting out the details of offshore wind compensation plans
Follow our step-by-step graphics that explain the process for two projects currently underway — Vineyard Wind and South Fork Wind.
Posted inCommunity Voices
New Bedford Symphony Orchestra flutist welcomes us to spring
Overlooking New Bedford Harbor, principal flutist Timothy Macri performs his original composition-improvisation, Esperando las Ballenas (Waiting for the Whales), to welcome the new season.
Posted inThe Chat with Jack Spillane
Feast ban on women: ‘It’s discrimination and it just needs to end’
Former City Councilor Jane Gonsalves and attorney Tara George joined The Chat host Jack Spillane for a lively hour Thursday afternoon and reiterated their plans to sue Clube Madeirense S.S. Sacramento if they are not given equal opportunity in the running of the annual festival.
Posted inThe Light on radio
The Light on Radio: Jack Spillane on libraries, homeschooling and rising sea levels
New Bedford Light columnist Jack Spillane joined Jim Phillips on WBSM’s Townsquare Sunday to talk about the importance of school libraries, homeschooling in New Bedford, and how rising seas will affect the SouthCoast in the coming years.