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On June 2, at the Lakeville Public Library’s Great Ponds Gallery, the Lakeville Garden Club will debut their exhibit, “Book, Art & Blooms III”, where floral arrangements made by local artists and books that inspired said artists will be on display. This is the Club's third challenge exhibit and is supported in part by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Lakeville Arts Counci

Authors, researchers, and scholars will have a new place to sit and overlook the harbor when visiting the Whaling City.

In my ongoing blog of “What’s New?” on the Southcoast, the Westport Land Conservation Trust is preparing for its grand opening of its latest destination property, the Noquochoke Conservation Area (418 Pine Hill Road), on Wednesday, May 18, at 5:30pm.

It's no "April Fools" joke. The Whaling City Festival is back on this year. That's the word from festival president Allen Richard who says after meeting with his planning committee Monday night, they decided to take Mayor Jon Mitchell up on his one-time trial offer of a 9pm closing time...

Fall River and Taunton schools are closed today, but that's pretty much it. New Bedford and surrounding areas decided to open school today even though school has been in vacation mode for a week and a half, and will certainly be closed tomorrow...

The Capri Motel on Rt. 6 in Dartmouth is back in business. The motel passed an inspection Wednesday and a spokesperson for the motel says that it has regained its occupancy permit and could begin renting rooms immediately.

Ten years after the Bouchard Oil spill, one of the last shellfishing area affected by the spill is about to be re opened.

The Northeast's top federal fisheries manager says he'll delay a planned shutdown of a key fishing area after fishermen argued the closure to protect harbor porpoises would devastate an industry segment. John Bullard said today that the two-month Gulf of Maine closure to fishermen who use gillnets will now begin in February, instead of Oct...

The newly renovated Claire T. Carney Library at UMass Dartmouth is opening to the public today.