Education

Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams was apparently the facial inspiration for a statue of Roger Williams at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Dr. Greg Skomal, known internationally for his research on sharks and numerous appearances on Discovery Channel's 'Shark Week,' is coming to Onset.

Out of the entire nation, this country ranks the best for raising a family in 2024.

Two SouthCoast families have teamed up to create a nonprofit that will help buy adaptive bicycles and other equipment for children that need them.

A 16 year-old Rochester student has been accepted to Bridgewater State University.  Despite some mental health setbacks, Leyla Tremblay was able to finish high school at an incredibly accelerated pace using online courses.  While Leyla's peers were working through their junior year this fall, she plowed through three years of school in an eyebrow raising 4 months. "I bu...

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?