New Bedford Officials Order Personal Care Businesses to Close
Hair salons, barbershops, nail salons, tanning salons, fitness centers, and other personal care businesses must close beginning Monday.
Fitness Center
Bobby Watkins Dedication
New Bedford High dedicated its new state-of-the-art fitness center to Bobby Watkins, a star football player for New Bedford in the late 1940s who went on to play for Ohio State and the NFL's Chicago Bears.
Bobby Watkins
The New Bedford School Committee voted to name the new fitness center at New Bedford High School the “Robert Archibald 'Bobby' Watkins, Jr. Fitness Center” after former Chicago Bears Player, Ohio State University football Hall of Fame Inductee, and New Bedford High School alumnus Bobby Watkins.