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New Bedford zoo unveils expansion plan

By Dan McDonald / The Standard-Times NEW BEDFORD — The Buttonwood Park Zoo on Thursday publicly presented its draft master plan, an initiative that could cost $12 ...
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Organizers declare waterfront festival a success

By Don Cuddy NEW BEDFORD — The weather cooperated and the crowds flocked to the New Bedford waterfront on Sunday for the second and final ...
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Southeast Mass. communities receive commuter rail planning money

By Chris Barrett,  Providence Business News Staff Writer TAUNTON – Fifteen Massachusetts communities will share $320,000 to plan for development around train stations proposed as ...
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Glass Museum Opens In New Bedford, Mass.

Antiques and the Arts Weekly Under the direction of NBMOG executive director Kirk J. Nelson, extensive renovations begun last November have transformed 4,000 square feet ...
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Working Waterfront proven a great way to relax

By Barbara Veneri, Sea Notes, New Bedford Standard-Times A couple of weeks ago, Laurie Bullard of the New Bedford Economic Development Council dropped me an ...
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Market Basket hires over 600; looks forward to opening early October New supermarket fills positions, but elsewhere in the area new jobs are scarce

By Brian Boyd Market Basket has come bearing gifts to a region where jobs are hard to find. The supermarket chain hired more than 600 ...
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Developer proposes BCC space for historic newspaper building

By Charis Anderson NEW BEDFORD — Work on a multimillion-dollar renovation of the former Standard-Times building on Market Street could start within three months, according ...
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Quest Center Marine Renewable Energy Center moves ahead with strong Congressional support MREC receives $1.5 million in federal grants

By Dan McDonald NEW BEDFORD — The federal government has given the New England Marine Renewable Energy Center $1.5 million in grants for research of ...
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Abboud head named parent company's CEO

By Charis Anderson NEW BEDFORD — Anthony R. Sapienza has been named chief executive officer of JA Apparel Corp., the New York-based parent company of ...
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