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Gomes Calling For Public Safety Summit
Gomes Calling For Public Safety Summit
Gomes Calling For Public Safety Summit
NEW BEDFORD- City Councilor At-Large Brian Gomes appeared on WBSM’s Barry Richard Show this afternoon to talk with Barry about his plans to combat the rise in crime throughout the city. Gomes addressed a motion he is proposing to City Council in reaction to the growing number of violent crimes in the city reported throughout the Summer...
Safety Summit Good Idea
Safety Summit Good Idea
Safety Summit Good Idea
The city's neighborhoods seem to have quieted down just a bit since a man was shot while minding his business in his apartment during what is believed to have been a gang related shootout in the streets around North Front Street in June...
Fire Museum Funding?
Fire Museum Funding?
Fire Museum Funding?
NEW BEDFORD- The volunteer staff of New Bedford Fire Museum met with city councilors at the Minority Action Committee today to discuss funding and other needs of the museum. Local community activist John “Buddy” Andrade organized the meeting between city officials and the volunteers who run the museum inside of the former New Bedford Fire Department, constructed in 1867...
Tighten Housing Codes
Tighten Housing Codes
Tighten Housing Codes
The New Bedford City Council needs to act promptly to give this and future administrations the tools to make it tough for slumlords to make a profit by maintaining rundown properties that are both health and safety hazards to the community and those who live in them...
Mitchell: Public ‘Let Down’ By City Council in Budget Vote
New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell isn't happy with the way the City Council narrowly avoided a shutdown of city government when they passed the Fiscal Year 2018 budget Monday night. In his weekly appearance on WBSM, Mayor Mitchell named those he felt understood what was at stake--namely Joe Lopes, Deborah Coelho, Hugh Dunn and Jim Oliveira--and said the rest of the council who voted against the budge
Cutting The Budget
Cutting The Budget
Cutting The Budget
The City Council Chambers at New Bedford City Hall will be a busy place Monday night. That's when the Council will meet and vote on proposed cuts to the Mayor's Budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1st. Council members have been studying the $324-million spending plan for the past month, questioning all department heads in a series of meetings...
Winterson To Run for Mayor
Winterson To Run for Mayor
Winterson To Run for Mayor
NEW BEDFORD- Ward-Five City Councilor Kerry Winterson announced he will be campaigning to be the next Mayor of New Bedford in the middle of a City-Council session Thursday. Winterson, who is serving his last term as Councilor of New Bedford's Ward Five, said he's been planning for his retirement in the coming months and hadn't seriously considered starting a campaign until recently...
Winterson Offers Reward
Winterson Offers Reward
Winterson Offers Reward
NEW BEDFORD - Fed up with graffiti popping up in Ward Five neighborhoods, New Bedford City Councillor Kerry Winterson is taking matters into his own hands. Winterson says the graffiti discovered by residents in the area of Chancery and Arnold streets is tagged with the word "Rash," which he believes is the street name of the so-called artist that is committing the acts of vandalism... Re
City Failing Youth?
City Failing Youth?
City Failing Youth?
Community activist John "Buddy" Andrade says New Bedford as a community is failing the youth. "These kids want things to do. They're not bad," Andrade said. "I've seen these young boys and girls, all colors and all shapes and residents of this city, and the adults in government and the adults in the community are failing them...

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