It’s crunch time for choosing the next Ward 3 councilor in New Bedford.
The voters have spoken and the finalists for the Feb. 28 special election for Ward 3 Councilor are Shawn Oliver and Carmen Amaral.
Oliver is a state corrections officer and Amaral is the academic coordinator for Old Colony Regional Voc-Tech. They have both emphasized improving constituent services and the City Council’s communication with the public in their campaigns.
Amaral and Oliver joined The New Bedford Light’s Jack Spillane for an in-depth discussion of the issues for a special election version of The Chat. As always, The Chat is free, but you must register to attend.
THE CHAT ARCHIVES
Register for The Chat: The Capitol Theater project
Join Jack Spillane as he hosts a virtual Chat to learn more about the effort to reinvigorate the Capitol Theater in the North End on Thursday, May 23 at 6 p.m.
‘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.”
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.