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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.
Jamie Ponte, commissioner of the city s Department of Public Infrastructure, said about 12 trees went down.
About a dozen staff from the department responded to 10 calls overnight and two more calls in the morning, when they continued to cut the trees and clear the affected areas, he said.
Though it s not every day that 12 trees come down, Ponte said they were well-prepared to deal with it. To his knowledge, no power lines were involved.
The unofficial wind gust report from the National Weather Service, issued at 8 a.m., lists a peak gust of 48 mph for New Bedford, measured just before 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Neighbors suspect one man is responsible for string of vandalism, thefts
Slashed tires, scratched cars. tar? And residents fear it could get worse.
Repeated acts of vandalism reported in College Hill neighborhood By Jessica Schmidt | December 16, 2020 at 10:54 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 10:56 PM
COLLEGE HILL, Ohio (FOX19) - A recent string of vandalism and thefts is causing concern in one Cincinnati neighborhood, and the people who live there believe one person could be responsible for all the crimes.
Residents in College Hill say the incidents started in the summer.
“There were tires being slashed. There was tar being thrown on people’s porches,” Jamey Ponte said. “There was cars being scratched with keys.”