Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 10:00 am Gifford Street Boat Ramp Parking Lot, New Bedford, MA.

Starting immediately, the City of New Bedford will begin collecting downtown trash earlier on the second Thursday of every month preceding AHA! activities. Please put out your trash for pick up by 2PM on AHA! days only. Upcoming AHA! Nights April 12 May 10 June 14 July 12 August 9 …

On Wednesday, April 4th at 5:30 p.m. at the Andrea McCoy Recreation Center, the City of New Bedford will hold a kickoff and information session for Mayor Mitchell’s Summer Jobs Initiative.  The event will give New Bedford youth and their parents the opportunity learn about the array of job and …

Mayor Jon Mitchell and the Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts (CEDC) are encouraging residents of New Bedford to learn whether they qualify for valuable tax credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the MA Senior Circuit Breaker. Interested residents must contact the CEDC to make an …

The City of New Bedford has announced that the Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held at Brooklawn Park at 2 pm, on Saturday, March 31st.  The event is open to children ages 1-12 years and will include a variety of eggs filled with goodies for all participants. The day …

A delegation of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick will join with Mayor Jon Mitchell and other elected officials for a flag raising ceremony at City Hall on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 9:00 am.  The St. Patrick’s Day flag raising is in recognition of the many achievements, contributions, and successes of Irish Americans. …

You’re bored and need something to do, so you take off from Downtown New Bedford and decide to head to Fall River.  It’s about thirteen miles so it’ll take you, oh, two hours. Two hours? What? Shouldn’t that take about ten minutes? The distance from New Bedford to Fall river …

Each year the New Bedford mayor gives a State of the City speech at a luncheon in front of hundreds of attendees. WBSM and the public TV network typically cover the event. We posted a review of Mayor Lang’s 2011 State of the City address here. The hot topics for …

Every school day 7,000 students become dropouts nationwide, that’s one every 26 seconds. The Greater New Bedford Connecting Activities Partnership needs volunteers to help address this crisis within the New Bedford area by delivering CHOICES, an interactive decision-making workshop that empowers teens to achieve academic success in pursuit of their …

Mayor Jon Mitchell will join with Lara Harrington and Angela Corrieri-Johnson to celebrate the opening of Boutique Fitness, a unique personal training studio and the newest business to open in Downtown New Bedford.   A ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned at the studio, located in a redesigned space at 516 Pleasant Street in …