emergency overflow shelter

All of the details are still being ironed out.

The overflow shelter will be open this evening.

The debate continues over when New Bedford's Emergency Overflow Shelter should open its doors. Advocates for the homeless attended a meeting Thursday of the city's Homeless Service Provider Network contending the shelter's schedule is too haphazard, and there are nights when the shelter should be open, but isn't...

"We've got to do more." That's the feeling of the President of the Homeless Service Providers Network after a group of homeless people gathered outside City Hall Thursday Morning to protest the failure of the city's Emergency Shelter to open the night before...

Rise Up For Homes, a community organization committed to creating an emergency "overflow" shelter for the homeless in New Bedford, has a good start on that project, thanks to WBSM's Quarters for Christmas. WBSM personalities and members of Rise Up for Homes collected hundreds of dollars on Saturday  during a four-hour stretch at the Dartmouth Mall...