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New Bedford is making it harder to panhandle at the busy intersection of Route 6 and Pleasant Street. Workers recently rotated the Belgian blocks (commonly called cobblestones) in one of the intersection’s raised medians. The stones now stick straight into the air, like the vertical pillars at Stonehenge.
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Construction on the $1 billion MBTA project is already underway. Once complete in 2024, one line of the South Coast rail will link New Bedford to Boston, and a second line will connect Fall River to Boston.
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Applicants for a driver’s license in Massachusetts need to reveal their immigrations status. Activists on the South Coast are pushing the state legislature to change that.
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Some South Coast residents are increasingly concerned about housing security, even as the Biden administration extended the federal moratorium on evictions on Tuesday.
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It’s all systems go for offshore wind in Massachusetts. That was the message from officials Tuesday in New Bedford, where developer Vineyard Wind signed a labor deal with the Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council.
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The Port of New Bedford is getting a makeover.Mayor Jon Mitchell announced Wednesday that the shuttered Cannon Street Power Station will be demolished, and the site will be redeveloped as a staging area for the offshore industry.
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Four new makerspaces, featuring 3D printers and laser cutting machines, are coming to the New Bedford Public Schools.The district won a $240,000 grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to build the hands-on learning laboratories in each of its three middle schools and New Bedford High School.
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Striking steelworkers in New Bedford and eight other Allegheny Technologies locations around the country have reached a tentative contract agreement that could end a more than three-month strike.
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In New Bedford Saturday, a celebration of Cape Verdean Independence Day featured a raucous car caravan and a state visit from the nation’s Prime Minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva.
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Music, food and art highlighted Saturday’s Juneteenth Jubilee in New Bedford. The city’s NAACP Branch and Collective for Change hosted the celebration of Black emancipation.