As New Bedford now leads the county with a rate of more than 365 average daily COVID cases over the past two weeks, city officials are urging residents to get the vaccine booster.
Protecting Mayan workers from frequent night-time robberies and assaults is frustrating city officials, who aren't seeing as much engagement from people within that Central American community as they had hoped. Human Relations Commission Executive Director Marcelina Pina-Christian said the commission appointed Irma Perez, a Mayan, to the body in hopes of better connecting with that group, but ther