Press Release Fairhaven TV received a 2022 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Founda­tion. The awards program was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Proceeds go to the ACM Foundation which is… [Read More]

By Christin Ritz for the Fairhaven Sustainability Committee  Spring officially began back in March, but these past few weeks it finally feels like it! The birds are nesting, the bunnies are out in full force, and the grass is back to its needy self — requiring a mow on the regular. The weather hovers around that perfect… [Read More]

Patron the Sniffer Dog Dear Frankie, I read your column last week and saw how upset you and your readers were about the dogs in Ukraine. I thought you would be in­terested in know­ing about Patron, a brave little Jack Russell who serves in the Ukrainian Military.  Before I tell you about him, I don’t… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor On Monday, May 9, 2022, at 05:04 a.m., the Fairhaven Fire Department responded to a report of a fire around a fireplace at 140 Balsam Street in Fairhaven. The first crew arrived at 05:15 a.m and reported the fire around the chimney. Crews opened up the walls around the fireplace and extinguished… [Read More]

Press Release Bob McConnell of Fairhaven has acquired the required certified signatures to be on the  November 6th ballot as the Republican candi­date for  the 10th Bristol State Representative seat. One clear reason McConnell gives as his motivation to serve is the fact that Massachusetts is sadly in last place for contested political elec­tions. It’s… [Read More]

The next generation of foxes have come out of hiding on West Island. This family has six kits total, although we don’t see all of them at once in this series of photos taken by Margie Green Joseph from 4/14/22 to 5/1 ••• Click here to download the entire 5/12/22 issue: 05-12-22 AcushTM Support local… [Read More]

Courtesy of Fairhaven High School Alumni Association Gary Valerio ’72 is heading to his 50 Year reunion in Fairhaven by an unusual method and route. Gary lives in Palmetto, FL with his fiancé Darla Donovan, but on April 1, 2022 he dipped his bicycle wheel (see photo) in the Pacific Ocean at his son Mark’s… [Read More]