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Again, city gains international attention for richness of
tourist attractions
 A
recent Associated Press article, picked up by ABC News
Travel, USA Today Travel, New York’s Newsday and Gaea
Times, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, calls the New
Bedford “a perfect destination for an autumn swing
through New England.” The story was also picked up by
the Dayton Daily News, Monterey Herald, Atlanta Journal
online, and a growing number of websites and travel
blogs.
Readers are taken on a virtual tour of the city’s
signature attractions in “New Bedford, Mass.: Whaling
history, busy port,” September 8, 2009, by Anne Wallace .... [read more]
Efforts over past 4 years begin to bear fruit in
downtown economic development
 NEW
BEDFORD — The city's downtown has always been poised for great
things although that potential was at times cloaked by vacant
storefronts and empty streets.
But to some people, the gleam of opportunity was always there.
It was in the cobblestoned streets and the stunning harbor; it
was in the historic architecture and the cutting-edge artists.
Now, less than a decade after UMass... [read more]
Historic preservation meets sustainable design in downtown
New Bedford
 NEW
BEDFORD — Imagine this city's industrial rooftops lush
with grasses and plants that soak up stormwater, thereby
preventing combined sewer overflows that pollute New
Bedford Harbor with untreated sewage.
Mark Rasmussen, president of the Coalition for Buzzards
Bay, imagines such a future in his quest to improve the
health of Buzzards Bay. He is one step closer to
achieving his dream now that construction is under way
at the advocacy group's new "green" headquarters on
Front Street.
The group is renovating the 1832 Coggeshall.... [read more]
City celebrates working waterfront with weekend of free
festival
 NEW
BEDFORD — With surf and turf as the key ingredients of
the 2009 Working Waterfront Festival, you can expect to
find enough seafood and produce — and entertainment
related to growing, catching and cooking it — to keep
your stomach satisfied throughout this weekend's two-day
festival.
To ensure that residents will continue to feast on local
seafood and produce after the festival, area fishermen
and farmers are invited to join a roundtable discussion
about Community Supported Fisheries programs that are
popping up around New England. The programs... [read more]
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center unveils its 2009-2010 season
 New
Bedford’s Zeiterion Performing Arts Center announces the
opening of its 2009-2010 season as a “Kaleidoscope of
the Senses”. A diverse and magical array of
entertainment, the season’s programming kicks off with a
gala opening on Friday, September 25 with Frank Sinatra,
Jr. and continues with country singer Wynonna, the Queen
of England’s Royal Scots Guard, the Chinese Circus Show
of 100 Wonders, the Moscow Festival Ballet, and a
celebration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with
Paul Winter’s magnificent Missa Gaia. The Z calls its
next season a celebration of imagination at work... [read more]
New Bedford artist's murals gaining popularity across the
country
 Good
news, sports fans — if you just can't get enough of
Fenway Park or wish you could live in the middle of
Gillette Stadium, you can make that dream come true with
help of New Bedford artist M-C Lamarre.
Lamarre, whose motto is "Have brushes will travel," has
set a lofty goal for herself: She aims to paint a Green
Monster in every state of the country.
"So far I've painted Monsters or scoreboards in 13
states from Florida to Washington. Red Sox fans are... [read more]
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