Celebrating over 125 years!

NEW BEDFORD — Elephants pack creative talents in their trunks.Fifth-grade students at Our Sisters School experienced that firsthand Thursday morning when they watched Emily and Ruth, the two Asian elephants at Buttonwood Park Zoo, use their trunks to create artwork.They cheered as the elephants grabbed brushes filled with non-toxic paint and used their trunks to guide them onto a canvas. The resulting artwork was taken back to the school for display and observation.Creative and

Mark your calendars — or your calendar apps — BookLovers, because September and October are jam-packed with author events in SouthCoast. And I’m not blanketing this entire time period under “fall,” because fall doesn’t start until Sept. 22, and I don’t give up summer until the very last second, when Mother Nature yanks it from me like she’s taking a toy from a bad kid. Then I throw a tantrum until Halloween. Then I call it fall.