New Bedford, like many older cities in the northeast, has to constantly figure out how to fund services that keep the public safe. Mayor Mitchell has a plan.
Crews this morning (June 12) are battling a two-alarm structure fire at 29 Ashley Street near the corner of Ruth Street in the South End of New Bedford. Around 9:30 a.m. scanner traffic indicated that New Bedford Fire Department ladder trucks were on the scene of a three-story vacant wood-frame apart…