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The Americorps Senior Foster Grandparent program has a 40-year history in the city of New Bedford. Its volunteers have done important work in city schools, helping young children with academics and providing emotional and social support. The program is run through Coastline Elderly Services in New Bedford and right now they are recruiting new volunteers. Program Director Jacqueline Medeiros said their present roster numbers 43 and theyre looking to increase their volunteers to about 60. Volun...

Baker Wise to Say No to Masks in Massachusetts Schools [OPINION] With COVID-19 cases on the rise nationwide and here in Massachusetts, Baker is under pressure from some legislators to reinstate a mask order for schools. The State House News Service reports Baker has no plans to update his administrations mask policies "either broadly or specifically for schools." A dozen Democrat lawmakers wrote to the governor urging a mask requirement for students and staff through the sixth grade. The lette...

Imagine being able to see some of your favorite places on the SouthCoast for the first time again. One New Bedford man makes it possible by capturing local hot spots from the sky with his drone, offering a totally new perspective on the places we love through his YouTube channel. Barry Mullin was born and raised in the city of New Bedford and now resides in Rochester. He works in Fall River at a biotech company, and he comes home every day to his fiancé and six children. Working full time and ...

Fall River Is Beautiful: Bugs, Birds, Bunnies and Wildlife Lets be honest for a moment. Fall River often times gets a bad rep, but Im here today to convince you to think otherwise. As someone who grew up in the countryside of Westport, Ive always been surrounded by nature, for the most part. I enjoyed being outdoors and enjoying the explorations throughout the woods. You never know what youre going to run into or see. However, in Fall River, its more of an industrious place to live, am I right?...

Owning a restaurant or bar comes with so many regulations attached, it’s easy to want to throw in the towel. If you’re under 25 years old, the Gazebo, a favored al fresco bar on Nantucket, won’t serve you. The owner of the beautiful Tavern Restaurant and Gazebo, Luke Tedeschi, has had it with ill-disciplined, noisy and rude 21-year-olds. He should be glad his oceanside bar isn’t in Italy, where the legal drinking age is 16. Some places in India won’t serve you if you’re under 30 y...

The Sun-Times wants us to blame an elected school board law, before the elected school board is actually seated? If you want to blame someone for the elected school board, don’t blame Harmon and Martwick, blame The Mayor and the mayors before her. They’ve had 25 years to prove to parents that mayoral control was a better model, and they failed. When I was younger, it didn’t take me long to figure out that the guys who were always calling their long string of ex’s crazy, were instead the...

=== Meanwhile, House Republicans reported spending $427,165.77 compared to $260,627.05 for House Democrats.=== How much grifting is there on the Raunerites side if you spend $400+K and all you’re doing is press pops, even if they are getting the likes of Maxwell to edit the slanting better than the HRaunerites could if given a week to craft. Oh. Maxwell coulda went through the parking lot, but when you look at that open, I mean, tell me the HRaunerites coulda produced something better. I will...

Democrats aim to have new map drawn by May 31 Terra Costa Howard Updated 5/15/2021 4:51 PM Democratic lawmakers have been meeting with Illinois House Speaker Chris Welchs staff to discuss what their new districts should look like and say the goal is to have a legislative map done before the General Assembly adjourns May 31. While that is the goal, a lot is still on the table with redistricting. If the General Assembly does not have a map by the end of May, the legislature would have...

Here's your morning briefing of what you need to know in Florida politics.

Dems say behind-closed-door process is ‘normal’