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New Bedford Creative Strategist Margo Saulnier says the arts community is starting to thrive again, and 2022 will be an excellent year for arts and culture.

Wednesday’s announcement that Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito will not run in 2022 is reverberating across the state.

Main South art installation latest in movement to spruce up business corridor “I love Main South,” the large, colorful installation reads, with a heart symbolizing the word love.  The project was funded by a state grant awarded to the Regional Environmental Council in 2020.  The REC, a city nonprofit that works to increase access to healthy foods, partnered with multiple groups on the project, including the Main South Business Association.  “We want to put out the message, 'Together, we’re stronger,’” Laura Perez-Garcia, president of the association, said Tuesday.  Main South ...

BOSTON — Representative Antonio Cabral secured some significant funding for New Bedford as the House unanimously passed its proposed $47.72 billion FY2022 budget on Thursday, and also saw the House unanimously pass his proposal to require the state’s sheriffs to report the finances of their agreements with ICE. The language passed by the House requires the state’s county sheriffs and the Department of Corrections to report the costs, reimbursements, and expenses associated with their agreements with US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) every quarter beginning in October 2021. “I...

Barnstable is the Cape's 'Gateway City' Barnstable is one of the state’s 26 “Gateway Cities,” defined by the Legislature as mid-size urban centers that anchor regional economies, have underused assets and face ongoing social and economic challenges. It is the only community with this designation on Cape Cod. The Transformative Development Initiative, or TDI, supports economic growth in core districts of these Gateway Cities, including the area around Main Street in Hyannis, said George Durante, the organization’s regional TDI fellow for Barnstable, Attleboro and Brockton. “The idea ...