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Jerry Wheeler says the multi-million-dollar port expansion would landlock his marine services business.

Continue Netts’ exceptionalist legacy Dear Editor: Thank you for the tribute to former Mayor Jon Netts. May he rest in peace. The best way for the city to memorialize him is to carry forth his extremely successful vision of a city that was and is exceptional due to its natural beauty. Mr. Netts followed in the footsteps of Lewis Wadsworth Jr., who once owned much of what is now Palm Coast and was an ardent conservationist, insisting on maintaining the natural feel and integrity. Whether in better managing litter (enforcement and signage are currently very lacking) or continuing the city's e...

Read It: New Bedford Police Use of Force Final Report The Commission on Police Use of Force Policies, chaired by city councilor Brian Gomes, was created in June by Mayor Jon Mitchell. Since then, the 22-member panel met behind closed doors on a weekly basis for six months to conduct the bulk of its work, and held two public meetings via Zoom. News of the report's release came Thursday in the form of a press release from the communications arm of the New Bedford Police Department. The NBPD's current use of force policies are laid out in three sections of the department's policy manual. Downloa...

Temporary Remote Learning Makes Sense [OPINION] Thomas Anderson, the Superintendent of New Bedford Public Schools, has decided to shift from a hybrid-learning situation to a fully remote situation for the days leading up to and immediately following the Christmas break. At first, the decision seemed to make little sense. We've been told that our schools are fairly safe and not likely to be the source of COVID-19 clusters. That is still the case, according to Mayor Jon Mitchell. Mitchell tells me the homefront is still the most likely place where COVID would be shared and then spread. So why c...

Speaking with WBSM's Barry Richard, Mitchell said inoculations have already started at St. Luke's Hospital. "The staff over there is already getting inoculated, it's happening already. That's a very positive sign," said Mitchell. Mitchell said healthcare workers will be inoculated first. After that, said Mitchell, "it will be the most vulnerable folks, people above a certain age with established, underlying health conditions and we'll go from there." Mitchell says more than 91 percent of the coronavirus-related deaths in New Bedford have been people over the age of 60. Enter your number to g...