As the most skilled, most beloved, most reviled and most complex politician to emerge from the oft-forgotten South Coast, MacLean put New Bedford at the front of the line.
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Beloved elephant Ruth dies at Buttonwood Park Zoo
The veterinary team proceeds with euthanasia to ease her suffering from debilitating arthritis.
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The last elephants of New Bedford
Since 1968, elephants have lived in New Bedford, somewhere that the world may never have intended. These creatures have warmed the hearts of thousands of frosty New Englanders, and softened them into perhaps the strangest elephant family in existence.
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Remembering Ben Baker, champion of New Bedford
The South Dartmouth resident was not born in New Bedford but made the city his life’s calling, serving as city planner, mayor’s aide and community booster. He died last week at age 84.
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New Bedford loses an artist and a friend
A talented observational painter, Alex Landry took her own life April 5, one month before her graduation from UMass Dartmouth’s M.F.A. program.