Strand Theater

The Cape Verdean Association of New Bedford Inc. will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for Island Park on Thursday afternoon, next to its cultural center.

An empty Acushnet Avenue lot may soon become a small pocket park, after plans for the site were presented to the New Bedford Planning Board on Wednesday.

First lady Michelle Obama is making a political swing through New England on behalf of Democrats running for governor in Massachusetts and Maine. Obama energized a crowd at the Strand Theatre in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood during a rally for state Attorney General Martha Coakley's gubernatorial bid, warning that "races like this can be won or lost by a few thousand or even a few hundred