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How does New York’s micro-cluster COVID strategy work?

New York’s micro-cluster strategy targets coronavirus outbreaks in specific sites with restrictions of varying severity. What are those restrictions?


Transit-oriented housing development tests New Bedford’s plan for neighborhoods near train stations

The city is encouraging denser housing with less parking near the new commuter rail stations. It’s a big shift for car-dependent New Bedford.

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Abortion services in and around New Bedford

Read more Crisis pregnancy centers have come under fire for deceptive advertising, pressure tactics and inaccurate testing. Meanwhile, there is far less local access to abortion in Southeastern Massachusetts than any other part of the state.


North End neighbors fight Parallel Products over transfer facility in business park

Massachusetts and New Bedford face a waste crisis. Neighbors say Parallel Products’ proposed trash transfer facility in the New Bedford Business Park isn’t the answer.

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Turbine blade parts land on Westport shores

Westport’s town administrator said a Vineyard Wind representative confirmed that the company had collected “about 4 pounds” of debris from The Knubble — the eastern tip off of Elephant Rock Beach.

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From Venezuela to Taunton: a family’s perilous passage to Massachusetts

The Darién Gap, a 60-mile-wide strip of jungle, swamps, and mountains connecting Colombia to Panama, is one of the world’s most dangerous and deadly migratory routes. No roads cross it, and it’s the only way to get from South America to the United States on foot. 

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