The first megawatts of energy generated from Vineyard Wind, the offshore wind installation near Martha's Vineyard, arrived to the grid on Tuesday night.
One man from New Bedford and two men from Brockton were arrested for assaulting Massachusetts State Troopers at a Boston traffic light and then fleeing the scene.
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."
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The legendary Ma's (errr, Grand-Ma's) Donuts is expanding. With the exception of a few years off, the donut and coffee shop has been a New Bedford institution since 1955. They must have known they were doing something right when customers started lining up around the building looking to buy fresh donuts each weekend before they sold out.
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More details have been released after New Bedford Acting Fire Chief Paul Coderre was killed after firing a gun and striking an Acushnet Police officer.