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A proposed 13-bedroom, 32-person "sober home" in a former County Street funeral parlor needs city approval, according to Zoning Board.
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The city is the home of the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, the home venue of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. [114] Summerfest, a multi-stage folk music festival at the State Pier, was inaugurated in 1996. [115] By 2012 the event was drawing 10,000 to 20,000 people and was rebranded as the New Bedford Folk Festival. [116]
The front-page nameplate of The Standard-Times displays its home city's name in small print and trumpets a regional identity, "Serving the SouthCoast Community." It was The Standard-Times under Editor-In-Chief Ken Hartnett, that in the 1990s most loudly championed the name South Coast to designate the Fall River-New Bedford metropolitan area ...
Ostracized in New Bedford, Araujo moved with her family to Miami to make a new life. Shortly after, on December 14, 1986, she died in a car crash near her home. [2] Her case prompted national debate at the time over broadcasting of the trial, during which her name was released. Some states have passed legislation to protect the names of rape ...
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By 1851, New Bedford had completely displaced Nantucket as the center of American whaling. In that year, Edward Coffin Jones, a Nantucket native who had moved to New Bedford and become a successful ship owner, bought the house for $17,000. The Joneses expanded the garden, adding the pergola, a common Victorian touch. [5]