NEW BEDFORD — The local longshoremen’s union halted and temporarily closed work at the Vineyard Wind site on Friday, just a day after officials gathered to celebrate the arrival of the first of hundreds of wind turbine parts in the port of New Bedford. Members of the Longshoremen’s International Local Association (ILA) 1413 said Vineyard …
NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) — Once the city that lit the world, New Bedford was exporting massive quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed docks and unloaded barrels of oil extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships. After nearly two …
NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) — Once the city that lit the world, New Bedford was exporting massive quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed docks and unloaded barrels of oil extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships. After nearly two …
