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State-wide media giving New Bedford
a fresh look
New Bedford is a down-to-earth city
that has always gone down to the
sea. Herman Melville memorialized
its whalers in "Moby-Dick," and
Ahab, Starbuck , and Queequeg still
cast long shadows on those Quaker
streets of uneven granite paving
stones. But today's stars of the
waterfront are mostly Portuguese
fishermen whose trawls and dredges
haul the most valuable fish catch
(mostly groundfish and scallops) in
the country... [read
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Small Business Innovation Research
Seminar to be held at Quest Center
A seminar focused on the Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR),
a federal grant program that funds
research projects by small business,
will be offered on October 26 at the
Quest Center in New Bedford,
Massachusetts. The goal of the
seminar is to instruct small
business owners of the region how to
not only access funding through SBIR,
but how to manage an SBIR award if
an application is successful... [read
more]
 Yankee
Magazine focuses on legendary and
local horticultural business
Small stones crunch beneath David
Haskell’s boots as he strolls along
a shady path amid Allen C. Haskell
Horticulturists in New Bedford,
Massachusetts. Son of the late
genius plantsman Allen Haskell,
David now presides over the
seven-acre retail nursery and
landscape design business created by
his father over the past 50 years.
The nursery, which draws plant
lovers from all over the world,
includes the city’s oldest house, a
Colonial structure dating back to
1725... [read
more]
Bioneers by the Bay conference hosts
internationally acclaimed gathering
of scientific and social innovators
The three-day conference featured
workshops on renewable energy
systems; new paradigms in business;
native ecology; healthy food; youth
leadership; holistic health;
sustainable communities; a Youth
Initiative program; and much more.
Callum Grieve, executive director
for the Marion Institute explains, "Bioneers
by the Bay has swiftly become the
go-to environmental event, here in
the northeast... [read
more]
New Bedford Economic Development
Council unanimously selects
Morrissey as permanent Executive
Director
New Bedford, Massachusetts - The New
Bedford Economic Development Council
unanimously voted today to appoint
Matthew Morrissey to the position of
executive director. Morrissey, who
was nominated for the post by a
search committee of local business
leaders, has been serving as interim
executive director of the private,
non-profit organization since
September... [read
more] |
