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Two New Bedford Pocket Parks Spared for Now [OPINION]
Pocket parks on New Bedford's Acushnet Avenue have been given a new lease on life, at least for now, while officials determine if they are worth saving.
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New Bedford Police Need to Step It Up at Pocket Parks [OPINION]
New Bedford Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro must formulate a plan to drive the scourge out of the pocket parks and make them safe once more for families.
![Time to Close New Bedford's Pocket Parks [OPINION]](http://townsquare.media/site/518/files/2021/03/Ruth-St-McGurk-St-Pocket-Park.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Time to Close New Bedford's Pocket Parks [OPINION]
New Bedford's pocket parks have become havens for drug dealing, open prostitution, public defecation, and are littered with needles.
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Approve Pocket Park Signage [OPINION]
Failure to support Gomes' motion would be nothing more than politics.
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Post Rules at Pocket Parks [OPINION]
This has to be among the dumbest debates to emerge from the New Bedford City Council chamber in some time.