Clasky Common Park

New Bedford's Clasky Common Festival of Lights was discontinued in 1973 after vandals destroyed much of the display and the city lacked funds to replace it.

New Bedford's Clasky Common was the city's first park – but who was the Clasky for whom it is named?

Artists will return this summer to create a mural on the walls surrounding the courts at Clasky Common Park.

Memorial Day is a somber time for Jim Reid, a Gulf War veteran and now director of the Veteran's Transition House in New Bedford. Reid tells WBSM News, he often thinks of the families of those soldiers who lost their lives in combat. "Soldiers accept what they have to do, but the people who suffer are usually the families...

The Walk for Freedom is being held this Saturday at Clasky Common Park in New Bedford and is being used by activists as a way to bring awareness to the issue of human trafficking.