The council upheld a mayoral veto of their own prior move to ban treatment centers in residential neighborhoods. CleanSlate plans a treatment center at 52-54 Brigham Street, several blocks from St. Luke's Hospital.
The Greater New Bedford Opioid Task Force has received a federal grant of more than 1.8 million to continue its work to fight opioids in New Bedford, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven.
Massachusetts has some of the most rational gun laws in the free world. The opponents of a new local gun shop are hysterical and uninformed about reality.