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Donaghy continued to live and work in Taiwan until 1987 when his decline in health forced his retirement to the St. Teresa Residence at Maryknoll in New York. [1] He died there on February 5, 1988, at the age of 85. [4] His funeral was celebrated at Maryknoll and he was buried, as he had wished, in the West Mountain Cemetery in Miaoli, Taiwan.
Holy Family High School was founded in 1891 as a part of St. Lawrence, Martyr Parish in New Bedford. It was originally staffed by the Sisters of Mercy, but they left in the 1970s. The school closed in 1985 [2] due to declining enrollment.
The front-page nameplate of The Standard-Times displays its home city's name in small print and trumpets a regional identity, "Serving the SouthCoast Community." It was The Standard-Times under Editor-In-Chief Ken Hartnett, that in the 1990s most loudly championed the name South Coast to designate the Fall River-New Bedford metropolitan area ...
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
The city is the home of the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, the home venue of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. [114] Summerfest, a multi-stage folk music festival at the State Pier, was inaugurated in 1996. [115] By 2012 the event was drawing 10,000 to 20,000 people and was rebranded as the New Bedford Folk Festival. [116]
Margaret Wright "Peggy" de Crussol, Duchess d'Uzès (née Bedford, formerly Bancroft and d'Arenberg) (October 18, 1932 – October 16, 1977) [1] was an American‐born oil heiress who married three times, first to an American textile and banking heir, second to a Duke of Arenberg, and third to the premier Duke of France.
The following year, remaining drug and assault charges were dropped and the New Bedford case went cold. Ponte resurfaced in the news in May 2009 in two separate incidents. Police dug up the driveway and patio of Ponte's former New Bedford home with a backhoe, but were unable to find evidence linking Ponte to any crime. [4]
The Thomas Donaghy School is a historic school building at 68 South Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It is a two-story brick structure, roughly rectangular in shape, with a truncated hip roof pierced by hip roof dormers. Sections project on the eastern and western facades of the building.