From black vultures.
The creepy birds that tend to send shivers down people s spines in horror movies have been seen hanging around the property and getting inside through broken windows on the third floor.
Matt DaSilva posted on social media that he was walking his dogs on the street and noticed a couple of people looking up at the building. When he saw what they were looking at “demon eagles” he called them he ran and got his camera.
The black vulture is different from the more common turkey vulture. Turkey vultures have red heads while the heads of black vultures are gray or black.
If Child and Family Services moves into the Church Street property, which is assessed at more than $830,000, major revenue will be removed from the tax rolls.
New Bedford Non-Profit Purchasing Furniture Store Site
NEW BEDFORD A furniture shop is set to become the new home for one of New Bedford’s oldest non-profit organizations.
Child and Family Services, which began as the New Bedford Orphans’ Home in 1843, is under agreement to purchase the property at 965 Church Street that is the current home of Regal House Furniture. Regal House is closing down its New Bedford facilities and moving all operations to its Fairhaven location.
Child and Family Services is looking to relocate and combine the services provided at its longtime facility at 1061 Pleasant Street along with those offered at 543 North Street into one facility on the Church Street property. It would utilize one half of the existing facility there as a mental health counseling center, with the other half serving as the home of a 24-hour-a-day inpatient facility.
The Mitchell Administration should give careful consideration to a motion filed by New Bedford City Councilor-at-Large Brian Gomes that could be a game-changer in the war against COVID-19 locally.
Gomes, who chairs the City Council Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods, wants Mayor Jon Mitchell and the New Bedford Health Department to establish a mobile unit to bring COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and information about the virus to otherwise hard-to-reach neighborhoods of the city.
The unit would schedule visits to neighborhoods where residents might not have access to the internet and may not be familiar with the process of scheduling an appointment to be vaccinated. Gomes says residents of some of the less affluent neighborhoods may not have transportation to mass vaccination locations. He hopes a mobile unit might have more success reaching immigrants, who often live in the shadows, by going where they live.