FALL RIVER It’s easy enough to miss if you’re driving by, but there’s a Fall River business on the fourth floor of a former mill building on Quarry Street that quietly and methodically manufactures formal dress coats and pants for the Chicago Police Department.
It also makes full dress uniforms for the New Bedford Police Department.
And that’s just scratching the surface.
Anchor Uniform Manufacturing is also “an approved manufacturer” of dress uniforms for the New York City Police Department the difference in that case being that they instead are required to provide all materials and designs to a Manhattan manufacturer, which in turn stitches it all together.
FALL RIVER Mayor Paul Coogan made his second State of the City address Tuesday in a joint session of the School Committee and City Council, marking the first in-person meeting for the council in 2021.
While the elected officials gathered in person for Coogan’s address, the public, like in many events in the last year, had to listen to the mayor’s speech remotely.
Here s five takeaways from the State of the City address:
City finances
Coogan acknowledged the disruption and uncertainty the city faced during the past year’s COVID-19 pandemic which shut down communities in the Commonwealth just a week before the mayor was due to give his first State of the City address last March.
FALL RIVER – David Nguyen says he’s been courted by no less than the governor of South Carolina to move his US Bedding manufacturing plant out of Fall River.
“They have a lower tax rate and cheaper materials,” he said, referring to South Carolina’s selling points.
But Nguyen says he’s developed a fondness for Fall River and its people since 2006, when he relocated his business to the Spindle City from Canton.
“I love it here. It’s a beautiful city,” Nguyen said.
Back then he bought an old mill building at 451 Quarry St. in the Flint. But as his business grew, Nguyen found himself running out of space.