Dan Medeiros

Bridgewater offers half-price MBTA passes for SouthCoast students For New Bedford and Fall River area Bridgewater State students, the price of commuter rail fare is now half-price, thanks to a student trustee.

Are you a Bridgewater State student using the rail to get to school? You can now get half-price fares. I talked with the student trustee who made this happen: www.heraldnews.com/story/busine...

Yrs truly riding in the locomotive of an MBTA Commuter Rail train being driven to Fall River by the COO of the T himself, getting a firsthand look at what it takes to operate the service. Story coming soon

Miss Lizzie's Coffee faces eviction; cafe owner defaults on lawsuit The "most haunted coffee shop in the world" is facing eviction. And its owner has defaulted on a major lawsuit.

Mounting legal woes for Miss Lizzie’s Coffee in Fall River. The owner has defaulted on a federal trademark infringement lawsuit filed by the Lizzie Borden house, and now its landlord wants to evict them: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2...

Before anybody else asks “where is the money coming from,” please be aware that I have cleverly included **in the story itself** the very information you seek. The same is true of a great many news articles! Click them and you’ll see

Fall River plans $428M in spending on schools, major roadworks and more Fall River is planning to spend $428M over the next five years. Here's where the money will come from and where it will go.

Fall River is planning $428 million in spending over the next 5 years. A total redo of Eastern Avenue, new fire equipment, updated parking garages, a new school building -- much more here: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/p...

Could superintendent sue Fall River school board? Union backs Curley The Fall River teachers' union is backing Curley as the school board attempts to fire her. Meanwhile, she may be planning to sue.

A look at tonight’s school board agenda has an interesting item that suggests Fall River’s superintendent may be threatening a lawsuit, as the board considers firing her without cause: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/e...

Route 79 is done. So why are people still stuck in Fall River traffic? Davol Street construction is over, but traffic backups continue in Fall River. Could it be a problem with the traffic light timing?

a construction project along Fall River's waterfront that caused traffic headaches for almost 3 years is now completed. So why are there still traffic headaches? I asked around: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2...

Stings like hell & it’s going to mess up my typing for a bit but all fine

Sliced off a chunk of fingertip the size of a sunflower seed, & in my delirium as I watched the precious life spatter across the bathroom sink I told myself to be sure i stuff it under things in the wastebasket lest the dogs find it & acquire a taste for human flesh

All in all, OK with it

Bound in dark brown cloth for a vintage sort of look but there’s a subtle pattern in it that isn’t precisely perpendicular bc cloth stretches when it’s washed and ironed, so that bothers me. Going to sand down the concave fore edge bc it’s ragged (it happens after you make a rounded spine)

99% done printing & binding my personal copy of Faulkner’s The Sound & the Fury with Part 1 typeset in color, using my own color key. Hardly perfect but OK for an amateur. Rounded the spine & added a recess in the cover for the title & author

funnily enough my wife has one too today. Canceling it bc our street isn't plowed yet, it's waist-deep out there

wanting to go to Dunkin' or just being bored is an illegitimate complaint

Before you ask if the local travel ban is lifted, ask yourself…

Fall River area buried under record-breaking snowfall. See photos Greater Fall River is snowed in post-blizzard. Scenes Tuesday from around the city and beyond.

A huge collection of blizzard aftermath pics taken in & around the city, some by me, enjoy www.heraldnews.com/picture-gall...

Is this worse than the Blizzard of '78? Depends how you measure it The Blizzard of '78 is legendary in eastern Massachusetts. Could this winter storm have beaten it? It depends how you measure it.

Is this storm worse than the Blizzard of '78? Why that storm was so devastating & what makes this different: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2...

hardcover journal I made for the kid, since she asked me to make her something to write in. All customized to her specs: 4.5 x 7, lined white paper, rounded corners, cream ribbon bookmark, textured cardstock cover, all colors her choice. Was going to build in an elastic band but she preferred not

Are MBTA trains tooting 'Jingle Bells'? Residents fed up with noise People living near train tracks are sick of the noise — and a plan to build quiet zones could cost $19M. The MBTA has some solutions.

People in Freetown say MBTA engineers are waking them up playing jokes with the horn in the wee hours. And a plan to create quiet zones could cost up to $19M. But there are new answers to the noise problem: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2...

Took the profits from handmade book sales & got myself a 300-sheet paper cutter. Trimming books now takes seconds instead of hours & the end result is way cleaner. Going to make some notebooks in A5, A6, A7 sizes — some blank, maybe some bullet journals

Lizzie Borden House says coffee shop owner owes $160K for defamation The owner of Miss Lizzie's Coffee has defaulted on a defamation lawsuit against the Lizzie Borden House, but vows a $41M lawsuit of his own.

The Lizzie Borden House says Miss Lizzie's Coffee should pay over $160K for losing a defamation suit -- meanwhile the cafe is threatening a $41 million lawsuit. The feud between these two businesses could be its own Ryan Murphy TV show: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2...

Fall River man shot by police had 'violent history' of drugs and guns The man shot and killed by Fall River police had a history of violent drug-related crime dating to his teenage years. Here's what we know.

The man shot and killed in an altercation w Fall River police early this morning had an extensive, violent criminal history dating back to his teens: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2...

Man shot dead by Fall River police after shooting two officers A man with a history of violent shootings is dead after an early morning incident in Fall River where he apparently shot two officers.

A man shot and killed by Fall River police after firing at them had a history of violent incidents, including a triple shooting for which he was convicted in 2007: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2...

oh damn -- I've wanted to see that for a while

Man convicted in 2010 fatal New Bedford stabbing goes before parole board A man convicted three times of the 2010 stabbing death of a New Bedford man during an AA meeting will stay behind bars for at least another two years.

A New Bedford man who was convicted 3 times for stabbing a man to death in 2010 will stay in prison at least another two years. Broke down what happened 16 years ago & the parole board's recent ruling: www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/c...

New Bedford man found not guilty of 2001 beating death of half-sister David Reed was found not guilty of first-degree murder in the brutal slaying of his half-sister Rose Marie Moniz almost 25 years ago in New Bedford.

A cold case from 2001 that saw a New Bedford woman savagely beaten to death will remain unsolved after a jury found the victim’s half-brother not guilty. What the victim’s family had to say: www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2...

Quickie proof of concept of a cassette notebook while I wait for other stuff to dry. Needs tweaking but it’s doable. (Not my original idea, btw)

A savage 2001 cold-case beating death in New Bedford is finally going to a jury after new DNA evidence emerged. Accused is the victim’s half-brother, who allegedly bashed in her skull while dopesick: www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/c...

even the best still struggle: Emeril's SouthCoast-inspired Portuguese restaurant is closing after little more than a year: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/l...

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