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WAG 4th Annual Invitational Photography Show
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45th annual Apple-Peach Festival
23+ hour, 28+ min ago (47+ words) newbedfordlight.org 45th annual Apple-Peach Festival Keep The Light shining with your donation. Your contribution is appreciated. Enter the code sent to your email We'll send a verification code to %EMAIL%. Get the best of The New Bedford Light directly in…...
Hand Building with Clay: Beyond the Wheel
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (64+ words) The New Bedford Light Hand Building with Clay: Beyond the Wheel - Event Categories: Art, Art Museum, Class, Culture Calendar Keep The Light shining with your donation. Your contribution is appreciated. Enter the code sent to your email We'll send a…...
Potential buyer for Next Step chain accused of deliberate understaffing
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1705+ words) Next Step Healthcare, a for-profit nursing home chain that prosecutors have accused of deliberate understaffing, could soon sell 11 of its 14 Massachusetts nursing homes. The potential buyer: a for-profit nursing home chain that prosecutors have accused of deliberate understaffing. Next Step…...
Beacon Hill starts to eye statewide guardrails on the use of Flock
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (776+ words) While Flock cameras are losing favor throughout Massachusetts, there’s growing interest among public officials in placing guardrails on the technology that has been at the center of nationwide debates over law enforcement, crime solving and personal privacy. Over the last…...
Data centers subjected to local approvals under Healey order
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (965+ words) BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Tuesday subjecting proposed data center projects to local approval before developers can move on to state permitting, representing her administration’s latest crackdown on the facilities after halting tax breaks earlier this summer....
Volunteers ramp up Acushnet River herring restoration efforts
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (808+ words) “I’m trying not to get emotional,” Hendricks said, taking a step back. This summer, Hendricks began leading cleanups of the Acushnet River, to clear the way for herring to swim upstream to their spawning grounds at the old New Bedford…...
SRPEDD Seeks Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee applicants
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (56+ words) The New Bedford Light SRPEDD Seeks Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee applicants Keep The Light shining with your donation. Your contribution is appreciated. Enter the code sent to your email We'll send a verification code to %EMAIL%. Get the best of…...
Business After Hours Sponsored by Earnest Consulting
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (91+ words) The New Bedford Light Business After Hours Sponsored by Earnest Consulting Local professionals can connect during One SouthCoast Chamber’s September Business After Hours, Thursday, Sept. 24, from 5 to 7 p.m., at Cisco Kitchen & Bar, 1482 E. Rodney French Blvd., New Bedford. Earnest Consulting…...
Free paper shredding day
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