The former Walgreens store at the corner of Acushnet Avenue and Tarkiln Hill Road in New Bedford has been vacant since 2022, but Dollar Tree is coming.
Attorney General Maura Healey has issued $1.5 million in penalties to the company that owns Family Dollar stores for allegedly violating labor laws on meal breaks in store locations statewide.
Dollar Tree recently announced that it has been forced to go up in price to $1.25 at all locations nationwide, including local stores like in New Bedford, Fall River, Wareham and North Dartmouth.
The extra quarter hasn't kicked in on the SouthCoast yet, it seems.
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39-year-old Robert Jones of New Bedford was arrested after disturbing shoppers at the Dollar Tree on Mount Pleasant Street, making threats, resisting arrest and spitting on a police officer.
In my What's New blog today, I'm saying so long to Fall River's New Harbour Mall officially. How many of you can remember when the mall opened back in 1971 featuring an 8 screen movie complex that was the cat's meow of its day! I remember doing Christmas telethons from there...
You never know who's watching.
Three people face drug charges after an off-duty police officer bore witness to their drug use.
Wareham Police say off-duty officer Robert McLain noticed the trio using heroin in a car in the parking lot of the Dollar Tree store in Cranberry Plaza...