As we start a new week, let’s take a look back at the week that was.
Top stories from the past week included:
The Narrows Center for the Arts hosts a different kind of rock show: check out these amazing mosaics.
Voters in Swansea have approved the $16 million project that aims to preserve the historic City Hall Annex.
Things To Do looked at upcoming events, including a dog adoption event at Sakonnet Vineyard.
Have you thought about turning back time and setting the clocks back?
Fall River Eats highlighted a special shoutout to a local restaurant: Mr. Chen was recognized by Phantom Gourmet.
A recently released book from UMass Dartmouth’s Tagus Press offers insight into how the lives of Portuguese immigrants and Portuguese-Americans were shaped by the economics of the textile mills.
More apartments could be coming to Fall River’s Flint neighborhood. The historic Greany Building, built in 1891 – which extends from 1270-1288 Pleasant St. – and 1616-1622 Pleasant St., built in 1922, are moving to the next round as candidate properties applying for funding from the Community Preservation Act.
The Borden Flats Lighthouse – the 143-year-old lighthouse located in the Taunton River on Mount Hope Bay, between Fall River and Somerset – is on the market.
Here were the most-read stories of the week on HeraldNews.com:
Bishop Fall River: ‘Father Jay’ Mello admitted to ‘serious misconduct’ during investigation
Bishop Edgar da Cunha said Thursday that the Rev. Jay Mello “recently admitted to serious misconduct” while on leave and under investigation.
Da Cunha revealed the information in a letter dated October 31, released to parishioners and provided to The Herald News.
Mello was placed on administrative leave in June after the diocese began an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct with an adult. He initially denied the allegations.
The investigation continues. Here’s what we know at the time of writing this.
Fall River Bishop: ‘Father Jay’ Mello admitted during an investigation that he had committed ‘serious misconduct’
A man accused of killing the Arruda family in a car crash in Somerset has offered a plea deal
Adam Gauthier of Manhattan, formerly of Somerset, who is accused of killing a family of three in a head-on car crash on the Veterans Memorial Bridge on Christmas night, may be considering a plea deal.
Gauthier faces three counts of manslaughter while intoxicated and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, all felonies. He is accused of driving a drunken Range Rover SUV the wrong way into the Veterans Memorial on Christmas night in 2023, crashing into a vehicle carrying three members of a Seekonk family.
He appeared in Bristol County Superior Court last week; this is what we know at the time of writing.
News from the court: A man accused of killing the Arruda family in a car crash in Somerset has offered a plea deal
UMass Dartmouth will be free for low-income students
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is joining the trend of offering debt-free college degrees.
Beginning in the fall semester of 2025, the UMass Dartmouth Deal will provide free tuition to in-state students with an annual household income of $75,000 or less.
Read more about the program here.
Debt-free college: UMass Dartmouth will be free for low-income students. How to Get a Free 4-Year Degree
Visitors wander through Fall River’s Interlachen and ice house ruins: look inside this protected area
The Fall River Sewer and Water Department recently opened the usually inaccessible Interlachen and Ice House Ruins for visitors to tour.
Because tours are rare, hundreds of visitors gathered last Saturday to get a glimpse of what’s left of Interlachen, a mansion that once belonged to Spencer Borden and was abandoned in the 1930s.
Don’t worry if you missed it, find out here with Herald News Senior Digital Producer Dan Medeiros.
Look in a protected area: Visitors wander through Fall River’s Interlachen and ice house ruins
Herald News photos of the week from Fall River, Somerset and Swansea
Herald News photographer and photo editor Colin Furze has a lens on the local community.
Here are his picks for the latest Herald News photos of the week.
Lens on the community: Herald News photos of the week from Fall River, Somerset and Swansea
This article originally appeared in The Herald News: Top stories: Bishop says Mello admitted ‘serious misconduct’
