Although it still has to pass a School Committee vote, Mayor Jon Mitchell said the new Campbell School playground will be named for slain officer Sean Gannon.
In late November 2017, Victor and Christine Fernandes and the Team Noah Foundation officially opened Noah's Place Playground on Pope's Island in New Bedford in honor of their son Noah Fernandes.
City and state leaders gathered with teachers and students at Alfred J. Gomes Elementary School Tuesday afternoon to officially unveil New Bedford's newest community playground with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
City officials and leaders from a local non-profit organization have teamed up to place a state-of-the-art fully handicap accessible playground on Pope's Island.
The John A. Parker Elementary School in New Bedford officially opened it's new playground, called the Lion's Den.
Along with the jungle gym, the school also built six raised community garden beds where students will grow their own vegetables...