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Alma del Mar opens Frederick Douglass campus on Davis Street for K-8

Alma Del Mer opens new Frederick Douglass campus. This will be the first time that elementary and middle schoolers will share the same building.

New Bedford area COVID testing sites face delays after holidays

Residents struggle to get a COVID-19 test around the SouthCoast area with reports of hundreds of people waiting to be tested.

How gender and sex education continue to be taught in schools

Adhering to state curriculum guidelines, schools continue to teach gender and sex education while incorporating modern day examples.

Parents Divided as Schools Consider Mask Mandates

Pandemic-era motherhood brings new challenges

This Mother’s Day, local women who gave birth during the pandemic are still handling big changes to the familiar patterns of new motherhood. “It was a lot of unknowns and it was a weird time to navigate,” said New Bedford resident Becca Kurie. Kurie gave birth to her second child, Olivia, last April, as the state locked down and COVID-19 cases surged upward. With the birth of her second child, her family flew in from the Midwest to help out during the first few weeks, and friends came to visit and meet her son. “You very quickly get excited to show off your new baby, and that was just not the case this time,” she said.