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Edward M. Lambert Jr. (born March 8, 1958, in Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American politician and government official who currently served as vice chancellor for government relations and public affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 765 Prospect Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was established in 1855 and greatly improved upon in the years that followed. It features Gothic Revival elements, including an elaborate entrance arch constructed of locally quarried Fall River granite. The cemetery originally contained 47 ...
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Fall River Government Center. This is a list of mayors of the City of Fall River, Massachusetts, from 1854 to present. Fall River was led by a three-member Board of Selectmen from 1803 until its re-incorporation as a city in 1854. From 1854 until 1902, mayoral elections were held every year and mayors served one-year terms. In 1902, the mayoral ...
George Coleman was born on February 1, 1939, to George and Beatrice (née Shea) Coleman in Fall River, Massachusetts; he had one sister, Eileen. Raised in Somerset, Massachusetts, he attended Village Elementary School. Coleman graduated from Monsignor James Coyle High School in Taunton, Massachusetts in 1957. [1]
Robert Correia (January 3, 1939 – July 2, 2021) was an American politician who represented the 12th and 7th Bristol Districts in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977 to 2008 and served as the 41st Mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts from 2008 to 2010. He ran for re-election as Mayor in 2009 but finished third in the mayoral ...
The Standard-Times (and Sunday Standard-Times), based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is the largest of three daily newspapers covering the South Coast of Massachusetts, [2] along with The Herald News of Fall River and Taunton Daily Gazette of Taunton, Massachusetts.
North Main Street, 1910. For much of its history, the city of Fall River, Massachusetts has been defined by the rise and fall of its cotton textile industry. From its beginnings as a rural outpost of the Plymouth Colony, the city grew to become the largest textile producing center in the United States during the 19th century, with over one hundred mills in operation by 1920.