jack peterson

If there’s one great thing about going back to school in September, it has to be the highly anticipated Friday Night Football Games at High School Fields across the Southcoast.

A new dog park may be in the near future for New Bedford, and it could be sporting a familiar name.

One of the most recognizable voices in local radio has been silenced. WBSM's Jack Peterson passed away Tuesday evening at Hathaway Manor in New Bedford at the age of 70 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. For over 50 years, Jack, whose real name was Joel Polonsky, broadcast throughout Massachusetts, beginning his career as a disc jockey at WLLH in Lowell, and shifting to WNBH in 1980... R