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New Bedford residents are being asked to give their opinions on what to do with more than $6 million in federal funding for housing initiatives and community development set to arrive in the next fiscal year.

It's Community Development Block Grant Week around the nation, and New Bedford is joining in on the 40th anniversary of the start of the program. Mayor Jon Mitchell, Congressman William Keating, and other officials and community representatives marked the special occassion with a speaking program Thursday...