Acushnet News

Local Girl Scouts are looking to rally voters in the run up to Monday's Town Meeting, when residents will get another crack at sending a new library and community center to the ballot.

Town Administrator Alan Coutinho said May 8 the town has decided to bill residents quarterly for water and sewer.

Meat, Seafood and More Raffle: At the Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, May 18.

Officers and detectives arrested a teen and seized a loaded handgun from the trunk of his car Monday night at Wing Street and Acushnet Avenue, police said.

City and regional planning officials Monday night unfolded a potential blueprint for the next five years of development and preservation in New Bedford, but only a few residents were on hand to see it.

AGUIAR: of New Bedford, Sunday, May 12, 2013, Fernando F., 76. Husband of Maria Odelta Aguiar.

Diane Medeiros says she doesn't like golf, doesn't watch it much on TV. But she's proud that the golf balls that she helped manufacture at Titleist are the very ones that the tournament pros are hitting around the world.

Unlike Fairhaven's Town Meeting, which has elected members, any resident may vote at Acushnet's annual Town Meeting on May 20.

Meat, Seafood and More Raffle: At the Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on May 18.

The Standard-Times asked candidates in upcoming town elections to fill out the following questionnaire.

An access road is being built in the New Bedford Business Park that will open up a 54-acre lot for new development, including possible future offshore wind partners.

Thanks to the town of Acushnet for re-painting the double yellow lines on the back roads recently.

Felipe S. Delgado, 87, of New Bedford, passed away on Thursday, May 2, 2013, at the New Bedford Healthcare Center.

A pastoral gift to the city 150 years ago, Brooklawn Park is almost at the end of a three-year face-lift to make it more accessible and attractive for families.

Jeanne A. Altman, 90, of New Bedford, died Sunday, April 28, 2013. She was the wife of the late Thomas G. Altman.

A former assistant clerk-magistrate in New Bedford District Court pleaded guilty to tampering and forgery charges and will serve probation but no jail time under a plea agreement.

Alvin G. "Sgt. Souza" Souza, Sr., husband of Lucille Souza, died at his Taunton home on April 28, 2013.

Acushnet Citizens Together Improving Our Neighborhoods, or ACTION, will host its annual Clean Up Acushnet Day from 8-11 a.m. on Saturday.

Attracted to rushing water, the fish swim upstream, darting over rocks and ledges to the ponds of their birth where they will reproduce.

A Fairhaven family is holding a fish fry Saturday, April 27, to help raise money to buy a wheelchair-accessible van for 8-year old Owen Costa, who has muscular dystrophy.