Ward 3

If Republican candidates are being excluded from local political debates perhaps the party needs a change of leadership at the top. The Democrat City Committee has opted to exclude the only Republican candidate for Ward 3, Jill Ussach, from it's candidates forum tonight and everyone is going ballistic over it ...

The divisiveness between Republicans and Democrats in the United States has now reached all the way to the New Bedford Ward 3 City Council special election. There will be a Candidate Forum Tuesday night in advance of the March 28 special preliminary election, which will whittle the race down to two people for the April 25 special election...

Ward 3 City Council candidate Hugh Dunn's campaign announced two major endorsements today. Dunn, who was previously endorsed by the New Bedford Firefighters Association IAFF Local 841, has now also been endorsed by the Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Central Labor Council, and the Southeastern Massachusetts Cape Cod & Islands Building Trades Council. ...

NEW BEDFORD - Six candidates vying for a Ward 3 City Council seat took part in a forum Wednesday night during the monthly Mount Pleasant Street/Ward 3 Neighborhood Association meeting at Holy Name of the Sacred Heart Church.

All six potential candidates for the Ward 3 special election have made it through the next step of the process. New Bedford Election Commissioner Maria Tomasia tells WBSM News that all six made it through the certification process of validating the 50 signatures needed to officially become a candidate to fill the vacant Ward 3 seat on the City Council...

The deadline has come and gone, and six people are in the mix for the upcoming special election to fill the vacant Ward 3 seat on the New Bedford City Council. Election Commissioner Maria Tomasia tells WBSM News the list of possible candidates returning the nomination packet includes Republican state committeewoman and former school committee member Jill Marie Ussach, former Ward 3 councilor Kathy

NEW BEDFORD - Some notable names have popped up as possible candidates for the now-vacant Ward Three seat on the New Bedford City Council. Republican State Committeewoman and former School Committee member Jill Marie Ussach has taken out nomination papers, along with former Ward Three Councillor Kathy Dehner...

NEW BEDFORD - The New Bedford City Council is tasked with approving dates for a special Ward Three election that will determine who holds that seat until a new member is elected in November and sworn in in 2018. The seat is being vacated by Henry Bousquet...

With Henry Bousquet retiring from the New Bedford City Council last Friday, the Ward 3 seat is currently vacant. City Council President Joe Lopes told WBSM's Barry Richard today that there will be a special election to fill the seat. Because the next election isn't scheduled until October, there will need to be a special election, per council rules...

NEW BEDFORD - Ward Three City Councillor Henry Bousquet has announced his resignation. Bousquet, also a culinary instructor at Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech High School, had been serving as a councillor for nearly three years without pay due to a conflict of interest law, which he cited as one of the reasons for his resignation...