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Local filmmaker Ethan de Aguiar to launch inaugural festival, which runs April 18-21.
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Building a salt marsh, in the city: New Bedford is reclaiming a piece of urban waterfront for natureSalt marshes lace much of the South Coast shoreline, but not in New Bedford. Now, with climate resilience in mind, the city and a nonprofit partner are building a salt marsh, from scratch, in one of New Bedford’s most densely populated neighborhoods.
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For Vineyard Wind, most operation and maintenance work will be based on Martha’s Vineyard. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell says the city wants a larger role in operations and emerging technologies.
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Since its founding, the organization has focused on labor rights and immigration. In the process, it has helped bring the local Maya community out of the shadows.
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A new generation of architecture students is facing a reality that climate change will radically alter how buildings are conceived, and they’re the ones who will have to find solutions. But first, they have to learn how. And this unique building in New Bedford offers a perfect test case.
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Blue Harvest Fisheries in New Bedford has closed down all its fishing operations.
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Governor Maura Healey says she’ll focus on finding funding to replace the Sagamore Bridge ahead of the Bourne Bridge. COVID cases are ticking up locally. And downtown New Bedford could soon lose a beloved arts center.
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The decision has been met with shock and disappointment by artists, downtown business owners, and others in the community.
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The longshoremen’s union in New Bedford went back to work Thursday after a six-day work stoppage that delayed the unloading of the first wind turbine tower for Vineyard Wind.
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A union work stoppage in New Bedford has prevented an offshore wind tower from being fully unloaded from the vessel on which it arrived last week.