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Ground Control: Elissa Paquette and Shara Porter talk fashion

By Sarah | February 10, 2017
Ground Control - Shara Porter Elissa Paquette

In the Pushy Women edition of Ground Control, Sarah Athanas examines the female experience with women doing great things in our community and beyond. In this episode, local legends Shara…

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YOUR WEEKEND: You know you want to get out!

By Steven Froias | February 10, 2017

New Bedford Feminist Reading Group SATURDAY, FEB. 11: The New Bedford Feminist Reading Group meets at 3:00 p.m. today right here at Groundwork! It is organized by performance artist Andy…

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South End Engaged shines a spotlight on a New Bedford urban core

By Steven Froias | February 9, 2017

All over the City of New Bedford, stakeholders are getting busy breathing new life into neighborhoods by working together in innovative ways to grab opportunity and meet challenges. In the…

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Ground Control: Devin Byrnes of Destination Soups

By Steven Froias | February 8, 2017
Ground Control - Devin Byrnes

In the New Bedford Now edition of Ground Control, Steven Froias examines what– and who– makes New Bedford thrive as the unique urban hub of the SouthCoast, past, present and…

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Ground Control: Shelley Cardoos and Tracy Barbosa talk art and entrepreneurship

By Sarah | February 7, 2017
Ground Control- Shelley Cardoos and Tracy Barbosa

In the Pushy Women edition of Ground Control, Sarah Athanas focuses on the female experience by interviewing women doing great things in our community and beyond. In this episode she speaks with Shelley Cardoos, executive director of Entrepreneurship for All and owner of Hippo, a new gift shop in downtown New Bedford, and Tracy Barbosa, architectural glass artist and co-founder of Duende Glass.

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Roll ‘em: Groundwork! Flicks

By Steven Froias | February 7, 2017

We all try to keep the winter blues at bay and beat cabin fever this time of the year. There are many ways to do accomplish that, but perhaps the…

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Feed New Bedford, Feed the World: Southcoast Food Security Forum

By Lisa Schiavone | February 6, 2017
Students enjoying Intermission

As I walked into the auditorium of the Charlton College of Business at UMass Dartmouth, I felt a wave of excitement and motivation. The seats were filled with such a…

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YOUR WEEKEND: A civic-minded and civil Super Bowl

By Steven Froias | February 1, 2017

I called it the “devastating loss” and I still think Bill Belichick should reimburse me for the Amtrak ticket. It was 2008 and I was living on the Jersey Shore.…

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Meet our new intern: Lisa Schiavone

By Sarah | January 30, 2017
Lisa Shiavone

“I have to say that my biggest inspiration comes from nature. Corny, I know, but our world is such a beautiful place, it motivates me everyday.”

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YOUR WEEKEND: Yoga, Vampires, Langston Hughes and a Downtown Cieli

By Steven Froias | January 26, 2017

Yoga + A Movie FRIDAY, JAN. 27 – Yoga on Union (1 Johnny Cake Hill, NB) turns the downward dog undead tonight with an hour of Yoga followed by a…

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