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The New Bedford High School Young Alumni Association is holding a spaghetti dinner Saturday, April 30, to raise funds to send students to visit colleges around the Northeastern area of the United States.

School officials at Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School will be looking once again to the state for assistance in expanding their school building.

The Baker-Polito administration announced on Thursday that $400,000 in grants will be awarded to six coastal communities, including two here on the Southcoast.

Hundreds of people walked through the Oxford Elementary School gym in Fairhaven for potentially the last time Saturday and left with carloads of surplus school equipment.

The Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center over one million dollars in grants.

Fairhaven homeowners who need to make repairs may be able to get some funds through the town's housing rehabilitation program.

The New Bedford City Council remains concerned over the alleged misuse of $1 million allotted to the school department for textbooks last year. After the Council granted the funds in May of 2012, reports surfaced that the money went to new hires instead of textbooks and other classroom necessities...