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You may have seen the news about the beds in the Olympic Village being made of cardboard. The official idea behind the cardboard beds (which sound incredibly uncomfortable, if you ask me) are that they are pretty inexpensive to manufacture as far as beds go, and after the 2021 Olympic Games have concluded, they can easily be recycled into something else. The social media take on these cardboard beds is something completely different. The running theory about the Olympic cardboard beds has more to do with preventing undesirable behavior from happening during the athletes' downtime. For as lon...

Since the outset of the pandemic, nurses and other frontline healthcare workers have been at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19. Their courageous and indefatigable efforts to keep the virus at bay are often recognized by elected officials, healthcare executives, and other powerful individuals. But these recognitions are mostly symbolic, not substantive. While the COVID-19 virus has been an incredibly profitable enterprise for the healthcare service industry, it seems as though most of those profits move upward to the executive level, with very little being invested in the actual heal...

FAIRHAVEN — The unofficial results for the annual Fairhaven election, held Monday, April 5, were released by the town.  Selectman Robert Espindola unofficially won the Selectman race with a total of 1,766 votes. Challenger Lisa Plante, received 491 votes, unofficially. Espindola will hold his position for the next three years. Voters re-elected the two current School Committee members, Donna McKenna and Colin Veitch, for another three years. McKenna and Veitch totaled 1,284 and 1,282 votes, respectively. Challenger Cathleen Marchessault received a total of 937 votes. Kevin Gallagher took ...

Fairhaven Election Sees Incumbents Returned in All But One Race FAIRHAVEN — The unofficial results are in from Monday’s town election in Fairhaven, with incumbents being re-elected in all contested races but one. The only challenger to come away with a victory was Don Carlos Callasius, who edged out incumbent tree warden G. Bourne Knowles IV in one of the tightest races on the ballot, winning by an unofficial 36 votes, 1,066 to 1,030. Incumbent selectman Robert Espindola handily won re-election over challenger Lisa Plante, 1,766 to 491, for another three-year term. Kevin Gallagher defeate...

Helping New Bedford Veterans During COVID-19 [OPINION] Since the founding of our republic, our veteran communities have endured and continue to endure innumerable crises of physical and mental health, as well as housing and economic insecurity. And like other vulnerable populations, their crises are amplified by the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Luckily for veterans on the SouthCoast, there are organizations like the Veterans Transition House in New Bedford that have done their best to adapt their services with the social distancing strictures needed to also keep the pandemic at bay...