NEW BEDFORD The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in its final years of cleaning up one of the nation s largest Superfund sites, the New Bedford Harbor, say agency officials.
The EPA held a public meeting Wednesday evening with about 25 members of the public and local government in virtual attendance. Last year, the agency finished underwater dredging, completed shoreline remediation of certain zones, closed cleaning facilities, and planted salt marshes.
This year, the agency will continue shoreline remediation and salt marsh planting along the Upper Harbor on both the New Bedford and Fairhaven sides.
Contingent on funding, the EPA should complete site cleanup in four to five years, said agency Remedial Project Manager David Dickerson in an interview with the Standard-Times.
New Bedford High School awarded $250,000 grant for marine technology program
The Standard-Times
New Bedford High School has been awarded a $250,000 grant through the Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant Program, the Baker-Polito Administration announced recently. The grant funding will be used to construct a state-of-the-art Marine Technology Laboratory to support New Bedford High School’s Career Vocational Technical Education programming in maritime industry skill training. The new facilities will prepare students for careers in marine and maritime industries, according to a school department press release.
The NBHS Marine Technology Laboratory will be outfitted with welding training equipment, virtual welding and diesel engine training equipment. To date, New Bedford High School has been awarded $650,000 in Skills Capital Grants since 2019. Previous awards include $125,000 for the school’s finance lab and $275,000 for robotics logistics equipment.
New Bedford High School to Expand Marine Technology Program
New Bedford High School has landed a $250,000 state grant to build a state-of-the-art Marine Technology Laboratory.
The new facility will prepare students for careers in marine and maritime industries. Skills training will be provided within the school’s Career Vocational Technical Education Program. The Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant was announced by the Baker-Polito administration.
The NBHS Marine Technology Laboratory will be outfitted with welding training equipment, virtual welding and diesel engine training equipment. To date, New Bedford High School has been awarded $650,000 in Skills Capital Grants since 2019. Previous awards include $125,000 for the school’s finance lab and $275,000 for robotics logistics equipment.
1876 (dated)
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This is the 1876 first state of Oakley Hoopes Bailey bird s-eye view of New Bedford, Massachusetts. When New Bedford officially became a city in 1847, it was one of New England s most productive whaling cities, challenging Nantucket and Providence. Whaling dominated the city s economy for most of the century, and that trade fueled the city s initial population boom until around 1860; in 1857, New Bedford was the richest city per capita in the world – but the discovery of petroleum in Pennsylvania would cause an inexorable decline in the market for whale oil, and the predations of secessionist commerce raiders during the American Civil War would speed the decline of an already-fading industry. By the time this view was produced in 1876, New Bedford was not so much a whaling town as it was a mill town: the textile industry had taken over. In 1875, the Wamsutta mills on their own processed enough cotton into cloth to make more money than that yea