New Bedford Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro Announces Retirement
NEW BEDFORD New Bedford Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro has announced that he is retiring from the department.
Cordeiro, who has been serving on the force in New Bedford for 35 years, including the last five as Chief of Police, will wrap up his career on April 23. Deputy Chief Paul J. Oliveira will take over as Acting Chief of Police on April 24, the City of New Bedford announced in a press release.
“I am grateful to have worked with the amazing men and women of the New Bedford Police Department over the course of my career. I profoundly appreciate the support of our community, without which our many accomplishments over my five-year term as chief would not have been possible,” Cordeiro said in the release, noting he was proud to be the first Portuguese immigrant to serve as Chief of Police in New Bedford. “It has been my great privilege over the past 35 years to serve the people of the city I love.”
NEW BEDFORD The Buttonwood Park Zoo assures that anyone wishing to pay cash for admission will be permitted to do so after concerns arose Wednesday morning that tickets could only be sold online – which is still the preferred method of paying for admission, the zoo says, but not the only method.
“If a patron arrives at the Zoo without tickets, we accommodate them, regardless of payment method, if there is capacity in the Zoo in keeping with the state’s required capacity limits,” Sarah Henry, Development and Marketing Officer for the Buttonwood Park Zoological Society, said in response to an email from WBSM News. “If anyone has been turned away from entering the Zoo not due to capacity limits but because of type of payment, it was done so in error and not in keeping with our policy.”
Hey Mayor, Tell Markey New Bedford Needs Sewer Aid [OPINION]
The Environmental Protection Agency is apparently ready to lower the boom on the City of New Bedford for not completing eight federally-mandated infrastructure projects under the Clean Water Act, but the Mitchell Administration doesn t appear to be too concerned about it.
City Council Finance Committee Chair Linda Morad said city residents can expect higher sewer and water rates to pay for the projects. Morad said the city faces a potential EPA fine of $58,000 per day per project if work does not resume PDQ. She said after making progress on completing the mandates, work has stalled due to a lack of funds and the COVID-19 crisis.
NEW BEDFORD – After months of the decision sitting in committee, Joaquim Jack Livramento has been denied a seat on the Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech School Committee.
Livramento was appointed to the Voc-Tech school committee by Mayor Jon Mitchell on Sept. 29. The Appointments and Briefings council voted 7-4 against the nomination and tied in a 5-5 vote on reporting the rejection to the full city council. For the time being, the decision remained in council.
That is until the March 25 City Council meeting, where the council voted to follow the recommendation of the committee and take no further action on the agenda item, determining Livramento s appointment.
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