More than 200 New Bedford side streets remained unplowed as of Wednesday afternoon, confining residents to their homes even as main roads were cleared. Over 1,000 residents reached out to […]
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Posted inEnvironment
Hunkering down, digging out after ‘snowpocalypse’
There is no expected timeline for how long the city’s plowing and shoveling will take, said New Bedford’s public information officer. “Crews are out across the city and they’re going street-by-street.”
Posted inEnvironment
New Bedford ‘walloped’ by largest snowstorm in city history
Monday’s blizzard brought 37 inches of snow to New Bedford, beating out the record set nearly 50 years ago by a whopping 11 inches.
Posted inEnvironment
Blizzard prompts Healey to declare South Coast travel ban; mayor calls for National Guard
Gov. Maura Healey announced a travel ban in Bristol County as emergency responders struggle to navigate snow-filled roads. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell requested assistance from the Massachusetts Army National Guard to plow the area.
Posted inTransportation
Will South Coast Rail’s ‘full build’ ever happen?
A faster, cleaner train route to Boston is still on the drawing board — but the state hasn’t funded it and isn’t talking about it.
Posted inCommunity Voices
Opinion: Lessons from winter storms and arctic cold
Eversource presidents: The value proposition for customers: strategic, cost-effective investments deliver real benefits to families, businesses and the economy.
Posted inPolice and Courts
Bristol County sheriff restricting information-sharing with ICE
Sheriff Paul Heroux criticizes the federal government’s increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.
Posted inImmigration
Judge vacates order giving custody of U.S. citizen, 8, to Guatemalan father with criminal charges
The 8-year-old New Bedford girl will stay in Massachusetts, after revelations that her father faced cocaine trafficking and assault charges before his deportation.
Posted inImmigration
Biological father granted custody of girl, 8, has extensive criminal charges, records show
The child, a U.S. citizen and New Bedford resident, is scheduled to be sent to Guatemala Feb. 5 to live with a father who has been charged with cocaine trafficking and assault with a deadly weapon.
Posted inOffshore Wind
Vineyard Wind’s final turbine tower heads out of New Bedford port
It’s been more than two years of stops and starts, but the project is in the home stretch now that a federal court lifted a recent Trump suspension.