operation clean sweep

The mission of the city-sponsored program is to get residents involved in keeping their own neighborhoods clean

Operation Clean Sweep is 12 years old and going strong!

More than 100 volunteers turned out Saturday in Ward Two to kick off the 2017 Operation Clean Sweep campaign. They collected hundreds of pounds of trash, dirt and discarded furniture and electronic items. Organizer Lynn Coish tells WBSM News, the program is now in its twelveth year and neighborhood cleanups are planned all summer long...

The City of New Bedford and inmates from the Bristol County House of Correction are working to make the city a cleaner place. Sheriff Tom Hodgson joined Mayor Jon Mitchell Friday at the city playground at Belleville Avenue and Washburn Street...

April celebrates volunteering and Earth Day, and when you combine the two, you get the Operation Clean Sweep Anti-Litter Campaign sponsored by AFC Doctors Express Urgent Care, 119 Coggeshall St., New Bedford. You can help improve the quality of life in New Bedford, one neighborhood at a time...

New Bedford's Ward Three is set to undergo a deep clean as volunteers begin to pick up trash this weekend. Operation Clean Sweep is conducting it's second to last sweep of the season in Ward Three on Saturday morning. Organizer Lynn Coish says the litter pick-up is a habit changer for the public and volunteers as well...

Operation Clean Sweep is looking for volunteers for a cleanup this weekend in the South End.  A neighborhood cleanup is planned for this Saturday in Ward Six. The event runs from 8:30 to noon and volunteers should gather on Ruth street, in front of the Loretta Bourque Park...

   

Operation Clean Sweep gets back to work this Saturday cleaning up Ward 5. This month's clean up is sponsored by Southcoast Hospitals Group and the Friends of Buttonwood Park. Diane Berube and Stephanie Poyant were on WBSM this morning to talk about the clean up...

"Operation Clean Sweep" begins another year this Saturday as we clean up Ward 2. Join us Saturday morning at the corner of Swayedr St and North Front St. Clean up supplies will be provided by the City of New Bedford. Diane Berube and Scott Alfonse came by this week to tell us about the event...