A louder debate is taking place over whether there are other aspects of the United States condition, essentially human needs, that should also be considered “infrastructure.”
Category: Community Voices
Essay: A father who simply could not be silent
Eric Lindell knew nothing about what it meant to be Black in America, but he did know what it was like to be poor, to live in a broken home, to endure the silence of long unspoken trauma and to know something of what it meant to live in a world of other people’s ideas about who he was.
Comments: What do you think of mandatory vaccines and masks?
Members of the community weigh in on mandatory vaccines and face masks.
FRAN HADDOCKS, 80, RETIRED JAIL SUPERINTENDENT WAS LOVED BY MANY
Haddocks was the first African American superintendent of the Bristol County House of Correction and Ash Street Jail. He died from COVID-19 on May 13, 2020.
Will the new public safety center make New Bedford safer?
City officials officially opened the South Public Safety Center, the first new police and fire station to be built in New Bedford in more than 50 years.
Readers comment on COVID-19 cluster at downtown nightclub
New Bedford Light readers offer their thoughts after news of a COVID-19 cluster at The Vault (formerly Greasy Luck) on Purchase Street.
Essay: The journey to equity is hard. Start by looking within.
Diverse leaders provide guidance and bring new networks, skill sets and experiences that help organizations operationally and strategically.
FRANCES SULLIVAN, 98, LOVED FASHION AND LIVED IN STYLE
She married Robert Sullivan in 1946, and the couple lived together in New Bedford for 50 years — raising five children until Robert’s death in 1996.
Readers react to more waterfront staging space for offshore wind
Readers react to news that the Cannon power plant will be torn down to create city’s second offshore wind staging site.
MARCELLE HARRISON, 79, TRAVELED THE WORLD AND CHARMED ALL SHE MET
While hospitalized for Alzheimer’s, her whole unit contracted COVID-19. She died less than a week later on May 26, 2020.

