New Bedford Residents Force Community Policy Change [OPINION]

Last week, numerous New Bedford residents manufactured it distinct they were not content with a choice by community elected and appointed officials to prohibit the hours of the Whaling Town Competition. Their voices ended up listened to loud and very clear, and the policymakers retreated. You can struggle city hall, and you can get if you are prepared to elevate a minimal hell in the course of action.

The idea that the festival could be held securely at Buttonwood Park between the hours of 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. but that in some way at 6:01, the menace to the public’s overall health was far too excellent to threat it was absurd and everyone knew it. No a person was shopping for it. It was crystal clear that the decision to location a curfew on the competition was motivated by politics and not problem about COVID-19. The folks rebelled.

And then to understand that the Fourth of July fireworks would go ahead without so significantly as a whimper from the exact general public officials who so fretted the evening competition several hours – nicely, that was the remaining straw of disbelief.

I never know who gave the buy to area a curfew on the festival. It surely appears to have been the Board of Health. It is nonetheless unclear who eventually resolved to carry the curfew. I suppose at this issue it won’t definitely matter. New Bedford-space families will get to take pleasure in the Whaling City Competition and the