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In partnership with CIC Health/New Bedford Health Department and Southcoast Health, the city is offering three vaccination clinics with $20 Dunkin gift cards.
NEW BEDFORD — When Jan Dexter and her sisters went to Rural Cemetery to place flowers on their mother’s grave just before Mother's Day, she was shocked to see that two small cement statues and a perpetual light candle holder were missing. She called the cemetery office and said she was told all decorations from graves were removed by the department and owners had 30 days to retrieve the items or they would be thrown away. "Lucky for us, we were within the 30 days to get our items back,” Dexter said. When Patrick Hogan went to visit his best friend’s grave in Rural Cemetery, as ...
The vaccines will be administered at the following locations: Saturday, May 1, Fall River (Liberal Club): Johnson & Johnson Saturday, May 1, Dartmouth (Vanity Fair): Johnson & Johnson Sunday, May 2, Fall River (Liberal Club): Johnson & Johnson Sunday, May 2, Dartmouth (Vanity Fair): Johnson & Johnson Walk-ups are welcome on these dates.Southcoast lists the full vaccine availability list on its website. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration paused the use of the J&J vaccine on April 13 due to severe blood clotting reactions. Prior to the pause on the vaccine, about 6.8 million doses wer...
NEW BEDFORD — Representatives of local and state worker advocacy groups sent a letter last week to a city seafood processing facility detailing concerns about worker health. The letter, delivered April 19 in person and by email to North Coast Seafoods, discusses "troubling symptoms and illness" among current and former workers. The workers believe it is caused by a machine they say cuts and debones fish with hot water and pressure. "It produces and releases a smoke-like vapor that contains fish particulates. There has been some effort to channel the vapor out of the building, and wh...
NEW BEDFORD — The city's police department and union, the mayor and some city councilors have voiced doubt, disagreement with and anger over a report recently published by a Boston-based youth advocacy group on policing and racial profiling in New Bedford. Based on its analysis of data provided by the police department, Citizens for Juvenile Justice found the city's police department has been policing Black people, including youth, in lower-income neighborhoods at significantly higher rates than white people. The organization said the findings suggest racial bias in policing. The ...