Fairhaven News

Forget the summer solstice and what the calendar insists is the start of the season.

Here's what's going on this holiday weekend, community by community: NEW BEDFORD Summerfest 2008, July 4-6 at the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park.

Lillian Mickelson, 92, a lifetime resident of New Bedford, died Mon., June 30, 2008 at the New Bedford Jewish Convalescent Home.

On bustling streets in the center of Fairhaven, vendors sat smiling under tents, people young and old meandered from booth to booth and children slurped on sodas.

More than a year after Mattapoisett resident Richard Reilly first proposed building a luxury pet hotel in town, he has cleared nearly every hurdle in his way.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the original Fairhaven Homecoming, a celebration that nowadays transforms the center with displays, goods and entertainment to bring people together.

The state Registry of Motor Vehicles is seeking temporary quarters in the city because it is being forced out of its current home at 950 Kings Highway in the Fieldstone Marketplace shopping plaza.

COSTA: of Ware, formerly of New Bedford, Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Elizabeth , 91.

John R. Wade, 78 of Fairhaven, died Thursday, June 19, 2008, at his home in Fairhaven.

FORGET KAFKA. Welcome to Massachusetts. In the 1980s, it was known as Taxachusetts.

An 83-year-old Fairhaven woman was struck and killed while crossing Alden Road Saturday morning.

The Board of Public Works has imposed water restrictions as increased demand has taxed the system while it is being readied to flow into the new water treatment plant.

Police arrested two teens who allegedly stole car tires and rims from a Dartmouth car dealership early Tuesday morning.

Henry Pietrzykowski, 92, of Acushnet, died Wednesday, June 4, 2008, at home. He was the husband of Jennie Pietrzykowski, to whom he had been married for 68 years.

If you want to talk about how rough business has been for housing contractors, you won't get much of an argument.

After a long period of inactivity, the schooner Ernestina will cast off her dock lines in the next couple of weeks, bound for the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard in Maine, where the historic wooden vessel will be ...

The Mattapoisett River Valley Water District held a dedication ceremony Friday for its new water treatment facility on Tinkham Lane in Mattapoisett.

The Board of Selectmen sent a strong message to the Fort Phoenix VFW post Monday night, voting to place it on probation for six months after the town's police and fire chiefs cited various public safety ...

A group of town residents has appealed the Conservation Commission's approval of the proposed wind project to the state Department of Environmental Protection, prompting the department to conduct a site review ...

For nine years, visitors to Fort Phoenix have met colonial character Rachel Spooner and her family on days when the militia is camped out there.