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First Candidates' Night next week for New Bedford elections

In memory of Dr. Herbert R. Waters, community shares fond experiences

An educational powerhouse, even through his retirement, Dr. Herbert R. Waters will be remembered by all of Greater New Bedford.

Serving New Bedford Children for 40 Years

The Americorps Senior Foster Grandparent program has a 40-year history in the city of New Bedford. Its volunteers have done important work in city schools, helping young children with academics and providing emotional and social support. The program is run through Coastline Elderly Services in New Bedford and right now they are recruiting new volunteers. Program Director Jacqueline Medeiros said their present roster numbers 43 and they re looking to increase their volunteers to about 60. Volunteers must be 55 and older. Training will be provided to those applicants who qualify, and foster grandparents do receive a small per-hour stipend. Anyone interested can call Medeiros at (508) 742-9198 or e-mail her at jmedeiros@coastlinenb.org.

Serving New Bedford Children for 40 Years

Art Beat: David Guadalupe's pop culture influences

Don Wilkinson David Guadalupe proudly acknowledges a pantheon of influences from the visual art world. Among them are familiar names: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello.  But the South Coast painter is not a scholar of the greatest and most prolific artists of the Renaissance. But the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a tremendous inspiration. Back in 1990, curators Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik mounted “High & Low / Modern Art and Popular Culture,” a traveling exhibition which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before traveling to Chicago and Los Angeles. The premise of “High and Low” was a provocative and eye-opening exploration of the intersection between what some, with an air of elitism, might refer to as highbrow and lowbrow culture.