New Bedford
A city in Bristol County, Massachusetts — population 95,517 as of 2020.
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Pese a la incertidumbre, comunidad latina celebra el Mes de la Herencia Hispana
En medio de la preocupación por las detenciones migratorias, sacerdotes, artistas y residentes de New Bedford comparten lo que esta celebración significa para ellos este año.
Community Groups & Organizations
Despite uncertainty, Latino community celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Amid concern over immigration arrests, New Bedford priests, artists and residents share what this celebration means to them this year.
Community Groups & Organizations
Fall River highway crash leads to woman being rushed to New Bedford trauma center
Several Fall River crews responded early Wednesday morning to a highway crash with entrapment. At just before 1:45 a.m. a call came into dispatch for a crash alert on Route 24 North in the area of exit 2. According to Fall River EMS, Medic 3 and Squad 11 responded with…
Public Safety
Opinion: Reopen the investigation of the F/V Mistress
A recent discovery does not, by itself, establish that Block Island Wind Farm Turbine 1 caused the sinking or prevented a rescue. It does demand answers.
General
Majority of detainees in South Coast ICE raids have no criminal records
The Light reviewed statewide court records for 23 of the local men arrested last week and found 19 had no criminal charges.
Public Safety
Slow progress on dilapidated State Pier causes waterfront squeeze
Seven years after part of the State Pier closed, the state seeks bids for a $31 million repair. The city, after $1 billion in port investment, is managing scarce dock space.
Real Estate & DevelopmentIn and around New Bedford
See & do
- 21st Century Minuteman
- Abolition Row Park
- Acushnet Heights Historic District
- Advanced Marine Technologies
- Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens
Eat, drink & stay
- 222 Union Restaurant and Bar
- 3 C's Bar & Grille
- Abraham H. Howland, Jr. Lodge
- Acushnet Creamery At Pier 3
- Ali lounge
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New Bedford by the numbers
- Area
- 20 sq mi (51.8 km²), 4.13 sq mi water
- Median age
- 37
- Households
- 42,271
- Persons per household
- 2.4
- Median household income
- $56,981
- Median house value
- $357,300
- Office
- BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS
- Address
- 133 WILLIAM ST, NEW BEDFORD, MA 02740