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DARTMOUTH - The race for two seats on the School Committee came down to the wire as results rolled into Town Hall Tuesday evening, with one incumbent took the top spot while the other was defeated by newcomer Kathleen Amaral.

DARTMOUTH - It's Eelection Day in Dartmouth. The big question on the ballot is whether to approve a Proposition 2 ½ override for just over $13 million for the design and construction of a new police station on Tucker Road. Police Union representatives say it would be the first built-to-specification station for the department...

New Bedford school officials revealed a preliminary $145,420,517 budget for FY18 on Monday night. That number includes $10-million in enhancement requests, which are considered important to moving the district toward their performance goals...

New Bedford is unlikely to move forward with Innovation Zone plans for the city's middle schools. At Monday's School Committee meeting, officials announced the district would pursue a different middle school redesign as they try to improve grades...

New Bedford Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin presented the School Committee with her goals for the 2016-2017 school year Monday night.

With New Bedford Middle Schools still seeing little progress, school officials will consider making big changes. At Monday's School Committee meeting, John D'Auria, a member of a non-profit professional development group called Teachers21, presented his findings on New Bedford's potential benefit to adopting Innovation Zones in middle schools...

The New Bedford School Committee has officially joined the list of around 190 other school committees in the state opposing question 2. The ballot question for the upcoming November election asks to lift the cap set on charter schools in Massachusetts...

New Bedford held its first day of school for all students on Wednesday a week after 15-year-old Mateo Morales was stabbed to death in a fight that left two others wounded.

New Bedford School Committee member Chris Cotter continued to push his issue with Superintendent Pia Durkin Monday night. Cotter claims the superintendent sent letters to Mayor Jon Mitchell and Cotter's supervisors at the New Bedford Police Department, accusing him of using his position as a detective to gain information on a situation involving a student and a teacher at Keith Middle School... Re

The sale of beer at New Bedford Bay Sox games at Paul Walsh Field has been suspended for the rest of the season, but President Pat O'Connor says the team will be back next year offering a revised plan for alcohol sales. Fans purchasing beer this year at Bay Sox games had to remain in a designated area while drinking the beverage, and could not drink alcohol in the stands...