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Yearly Archives: 2012

Three Job Fairs at The Greater New Bedford Career Center

The Greater New Bedford Career Center located at 618 Acushnet Avenue, New Bedford, will be hosting three job fairs this week on October 16th, 17th, & 18th. Project Independence Adult Day Health Care Center is seeking part-time positions for School Bus Monitors and School Bus Drivers on Tuesday, October 16th …

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10 Things To Do This Weekend

Boo at The Zoo Buttonwood Park

The main theme on my Facebook news feed lately has been how depressing the cold weather is in the area. I try to be more positive when it comes to fall and winter because the cold weather does bring with it holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, and some great …

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5 Things to Do This AHA!

The theme for this Thursday’s AHA! (Art • History • Architecture for the newbies) is Naughty and Notorious. The weather is expected to be clear and in the mid-50s. There are TONS of events scheduled for today, but here are my recommended events/places to visit. The full AHA! event calendar …

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The Southcoast Hot Job List – 10 October, 2012

The Greater New Bedford unemployment rate is much higher than the rest of Massachusetts, but believe it or not there really are a lot of jobs available for qualified applicants. Sometimes the barrier to a new job can be the lack of information on available job openings.  To solve this, each week …

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New Bedford Chowder Festival Review and Results

This year’s New Bedford Seaport Chowder Festival may have been interrupted by rain, but as we all know, inclement weather will never come between New Englanders and their “chowda.” For 2012’s Seventh Annual Chowder Festival the crowds packed in as usual to try samples of clam chowder, seafood chowder, kale …

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Public Wireless Internet Comes to New Bedford City Hall

New Bedford City Hall

The City of New Bedford has implemented a computer network upgrade that establishes new public wireless internet access and improves internal communication between municipal offices. As part of the effort, City Hall now joins the City’s public library branches in offering public wireless internet service.  Other municipal sites, including the …

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16 Facts About Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus is an American icon, but how much do you really know about him? Thanks to him many of us get a day off, but it seems few actually know about his accomplishments outside of “discovering America” or know about the atrocities he is accused of committing as governor …

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Explore an urban wilderness at the Acushnet Sawmill

The Buzzards Bay Coalition will host a free Bay Adventure at the site of the former Acushnet Saw Mills on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. Join Bay Coalition Ecologist Sara Quintal as she leads a two-hour tour of the property, which the Bay Coalition is restoring to its natural …

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