New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell has weighed in on a controversy surrounding limited hours for the Whaling City Festival, which the city's Board of Health mandated due to the pandemic.
Mayor Mitchell and the Board of Health are prohibiting visits to nursing homes, long-term care and senior living facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
During Monday night's Board of Health Meeting in Westport activists were demanding resignations from board members who they say they knew about deplorable conditions on an animal farm long before they took action to address it.
Fairhaven officials are hoping to join other local communities like New Bedford and Wareham in banning the sale of synthetic drugs.
Also known as "fake weed", K-2, and spice, synthetic drugs are currently legal to sell in Fairhaven.
Fairhaven's Board of Health met with the Board of Selectmen on Monday night to discuss Wednesday's public hearing to potentially institute the ban...
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At last night's meeting, the Westport Board of Selectmen issued a statement regarding the massive animal abuse case at a local tenant farm. In their statement, the board described the current state of the case against the property owner and tenants, along with potential actions to avoid this from happening again...