New Bedford Light

1 week ago | newbedfordlight.org | Grace Ferguson

A Cape Cod construction company is proposing a new freight service between New Bedford and Nantucket. The proposed service would carry recyclables, tires, construction equipment, and other materials two to three days a week, using freight boats that the company bought from the Steamship Authority last year. It would use Steamship Authority dock space for loading and unloading. Robert B.

1 week ago | newbedfordlight.org | Grace Ferguson

Residents who live near South Coast Rail facilities complained about unbearable nighttime noise, litter, and service disruptions at a public meeting with MBTA executives in Fall River on Thursday. The noise complaints dominated the meeting. Trains sometimes idle loudly all night at the Weaver’s Cove layover in Fall River, residents said — some likened it to the sound of an airplane right outside their home. Horn blasts have also interrupted their sleep, they said.

1 week ago | newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane

Late in the afternoon is a good time to take in the section of the near North End that is the heart of New Bedford’s Central American community. On the Avenue, folks are doing errands at the many shops and eateries that advertise themselves as catering to Guatemalan tastes. A block away, at Riverside Park, every evening the soccer field is home to four or five groups of young Latinos playing half-field around the nets.

2 weeks ago | newbedfordlight.org | Grace Ferguson

Local leaders surrounded a mechanical arm as it cut the ribbon on New Bedford Research & Robotics’ new building last July. The ceremony kicked off the renovation of a vacant property on Purchase Street, using $2.25 million in federal pandemic relief funds granted by the city. The grant took months to finalize — it needed “all manner of legal opinions” to fit into the complicated funding requirements, Mayor Jon Mitchell said at the ribbon-cutting.

2 weeks ago | newbedfordlight.org | Kevin G. Andrade

BOSTON — The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons, touted the success of a month-long immigration enforcement operation during a press conference Monday morning that resulted in the detention of nearly 1,500 immigrants across Massachusetts.