Education

On this date in 1841, the author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville launched out of Fairhaven on a whaling boat named Acushnet. According to History.com, the vessel "anchored in Polynesia, where Melville took part in a mutiny. He was thrown in jail in Tahiti, escaped, and wandered around the South Sea islands for two years." Naturally...

The public is welcome to attend the First Night Service at New Bedford's Seamen's Bethel on December 31 at 5 p.m.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, especially at the Museum of Bad Art in Boston at Dorchester Brewing Company.

New Bedford Educators Association President Thomas Nickerson addressed the change to New Bedford High student dismissal on WBSM Thursday.

Actor Casey Affleck was spotted on a Quincy film set wearing a green Dartmouth sweatshirt, but is that a reference to the Massachusetts town or the New Hampshire college?

The December agenda includes shellfish decorating, films, unique items in the gift shop, and a new oral history project entitled 'Casting a Wider Net.'

Brittany Botelho, a licensed social worker, discusses her work in the New Bedford community, most of which centers on the elderly.

A Fairhaven School is home to a new mural of the town's famous benefactor, Henry Huttleston Rogers.  What better school to choose for a tribute than on the Fairhaven school that bears his name, the Rogers School? The Rogers school has been vacant for roughly 10 years, since it merged with the new Wood School on the site of the old Wood School on Sconticut Neck Road.  The tow...

Ruth Graves Wakefield, who worked at a lodge called The Toll House, accidentally invented chocolate chip cookies while experimenting in the kitchen. The rest is history.

Meet Bethany Macedo, the athletic trainer who helped keep the Fairhaven Blue Devils healthy and stretched on their road to a Super Bowl win over Salem.