NEW BEDFORD Three city councilors, two businesses and one state representative are partnering up in what might be a last attempt to keep the North End s pocket parks.
Councilor-at-large Ian Abreu announced on Facebook that monthly cleanups for two pocket parks in the North End will start on Saturday, May 8 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. It is my hope and desire that these cleanups will help empower our community to take back ownership of these public resources, Abreu wrote. I would like to give these parks one last opportunity to provide the passive recreational opportunities they were intended for before discussing the possibility of selling them off to private developers.
NEW BEDFORD By 2050, the city of New Bedford aims to be zero waste, use 100% renewable energy, and have thousands more trees planted, according to a climate action and resilience plan Mayor Jon Mitchell released Wednesday.
Just a week after the state released a roadmap to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, the city released its own roadmap, NB Resilient, to guide not only the city, but also its residents in adapting to climate change and mitigating its impact.
“In the midst of the pandemic, we in New Bedford know that the world goes on. There are other challenges we face, there are other opportunities we must seize – and top among all of them are the threats and opportunities presented by climate change,” Mitchell said in the website s launch video.