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The Paul Revere Bell tour could be coming to a parade near you. At Monday night's Board of Selectmen meeting, the Fairhaven Bell Committee was approved to build a cradle for the 2-century-old bell, allowing it to safely appear in town events, like parades, until it gets a permanent home...

Fairhaven officials are trying a last-ditch effort to keep the local Kmart from closing. At last night's meeting, the Board of Selectmen read a letter sent to Kmart's parent company, Sears Holdings, hoping to convince the company to keep Kmart in Fairhaven...

The Rogers School consulting group continues their work narrowing down the possibilities for the historic Fairhaven building's future. At Thursday's meeting at town hall, consulting group Kirk and Company spoke about how town demographics along with certain tax credits could affect the potential uses for the Rogers School. ...

Fairhaven officials say they were surprised when the Oxford school's development group recently asked for town funding, and even more surprised when they saw for how much. During Monday's Board of Selectmen meeting, officials discussed the Stratford Group's $325,000 Community Preservation Commission funding request, which happens to be the same amount they're buying the property for...

Black Lives Matter has been officially endorsed by the taxpayers of Massachusetts with the hoisting of their flag on the University's main flag pole at the entrance, endorsed by the interim chancellor of UMD Peyton Randolph Helm. What started out as a justifiably angry response to a glut of lethal actions taken against young black men by police and a wannabe (George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin) has t

  The University of Massachusetts owes police officers, including it's own police force, an apology for flying a “Black Lives Matter” flag at it's Dartmouth campus. Interim Chancellor Randy Helm says the school does not endorse all of BLM's views, which include killing cops, but says he hopes flying the flag will, “encourage civil and respectful dialogue at a time of deep divisions in our country.

He's at it again. President-Elect Donald Trump, fresh from his assault on defense contractor Boeing is now going after Lockheed Martin.  Last week Trump cancelled a 4 Billion dollar contract with  Boeing for a fleet of Air Force One planes, saying the cost was too high.  O...

The New Bedford City Council discussed a recent agreement between the Mitchell Administration and a company that is looking to locate a marijuana grow facility at the city's business park. Is this really a good idea? WBSM's Barry Richard isn't so sure...

Revenues have been trickling into the Massachusetts economy at a slower than anticipated rate and that could mean new taxes in the new year.

Fairhaven residents and business owners will be paying more total property taxes in 2017, and that's a good sign officials say. At Monday's meeting, the Fairhaven Board of Selectmen voted to lower the tax rate by 14 cents per $1,000 valuation for residential properties, and dropped commercial properties by 18 cents...