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Daylight Savings Time is this weekend. In addition to turning the clocks ahead one hour, there are a few other items we should check off our lists. When we turn the clocks back an hour in the fall, check them again.

Construction will soon begin on New Bedford's first-ever dog park. The City Council this week accepted a $225,000 grant from the Stanton Foundation for construction of the park, which will be situated on Hathaway Boulevard between Greenwood and Ruggles Streets...

New Bedford High School has graduated from the National Academy Foundation. The announcement was made Tuesday by several officials, and means the high school will be adding three new academies in the fall of this year in addition to it's engineering academy...

"Entrepreneurship For All" is coming to the Southcoast. The announcement was made Friday at Blount Foods in Fall River. E-For-All is about people offering ideas, and having a mechanism in place to refine those ideas through encouragement, mentoring and individual advisors...

Remember Karen Klein, the upstate New York bus monitor who was viciously harassed by her middle school charges in a video that went viral in June? Her story had a happy ending, as an internet fundraising campaign to send the 68-year-old on a “nice vacation” raised over $700,000 from 32,000 people around the world. That’s more than enough money for Klein to retire from the yellow school bus grind.