Jack Spillane
Columnist and Reporter at New Bedford Light
Jack Spillane is a career journalist, working primarily as a government and political reporter, editor and columnist.
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3 weeks ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
Andrew O’Leary is the first New Bedford superintendent of schools I can remember who regularly shows up at events around town wearing the school colors of red and white. There is no doubt that this Cork, Ireland, native bleeds New Bedford red and white as he enters the third year of his leadership of the system. What he really bleeds, however, is belief in urban public education.
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1 month ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
Retired New Bedford firefighter David Mello and his wife Pam stared up at what’s called the Big Board in South Station midway through Monday morning. With 10 minutes to go before the 1911 train was scheduled to leave for Fall River, they were watching like old pros for the electronic schedule to post which track the train would be leaving on. The Mellos are used to driving to Boston to walk around or just see friends.
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1 month ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
If the solid-waste truck hauling business located at 781 Church St. in New Bedford was any more hidden away, it might be invisible. WIN Waste Innovations, a regional waste and recycling management company headquartered in Portsmouth, N.H., has quietly operated a trash truck storage facility for several years at the location about a ¼ mile off Church Street in New Bedford’s North End.
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2 months ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
“When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress or mistreat him. But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”– Leviticus, 19:33-34I remember March 6, 2007, dawning unusually cold in New Bedford that year, almost like an omen of a day that would be bigger than itself.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
“If he were a religious man, he would be one of the most truly religious and reverential; he has a very high and noble nature, and better worth immortality than most of us.”Nathaniel Hawthorne writing after a meeting with Herman MelvilleWho we are doesn’t always belong to just ourselves. Our reputation in the world is a funny thing, changeable over time, both during and after our lifetimes.
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Maggi Kerr Peirce was South Coast’s magical storyteller - The New Bedford Light. Here is my remembrance of a grand poetic spirit. https://t.co/pBgnobu1io
Far North End neighborhood fights South Coast Renewables in all-American battle - The New Bedford Light. My latest column. https://t.co/OvJdZIk2sd
New Bedford’s Everett Hoagland recognized with American Book Award - The New Bedford Light. Check out my thoughts on Hoagland’s poetry collection The Ways. https://t.co/laOMcCnI2z