Preserve Fall River memories; city honors national icon with mural: Top stories

As we kick off a new week, let's take a look back at the week that was.

Top stories this past week included:

Carissa and Adam Davenport, owners of wellness business Town Farm Tonics, realizing a lifelong dream. Now, they will be growing their own ingredients for their growing business right in their own backyard, as the pair recently purchased Westport's historic Berry Hill Farm.

The latest Greater Fall River real estate report, featuring several homes around the area that sold well below the median home price. In a real estate market where it feels nearly impossible to find properties on the lower side of the spectrum, there were five properties that sold for under $250,000 in Greater Fall River. We've listed them here, and rounded up some of the top-sellers as well.

These were the most read stories of the week on HeraldNews.com:

A local history project is coming to Fall River. You can save your memories forever.

The Mass. Memories Road Show, a statewide project, is coming to Fall River.

Since 2004, the project has collected over 12,000 photographs and stories from people across the state, preserving them digitally as a record of social history for future generations.

Everyone in Fall River is invited to participate, and to the launch party that is going to be held at Heritage State Park.

Learn more here about the launch party, and the project.

Preserving the past: A local history project is coming to Fall River. You can save your memories forever.

Fall River is honoring a national legend with a mural overlooking Kennedy Park

A new mural is coming soon to beautify the city, among the others that have recently graced Fall River.

This one will be honoring world-renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Three of Fall River’s parks, including its two largest, are the work of Olmsted and the firm passed on to his descendants.

Chandler Hearn and Katrina Myers of the Fall River Arts Project recently received the OK from the city Board of Park Commissioners to paint a mural inspired by Olmsted and his work in Kennedy Park.

For the man who designed the parks: Fall River is honoring a national legend with a mural overlooking Kennedy Park. Here's who

After 9 years of no development, city to take back former Davol Elementary School

Mayor Paul Coogan's administration is looking at taking back former Fall River school buildings that were sold when new educational institutions were being built in the city during a boom about a decade ago.

Coogan has notified the Flint Neighborhood Association, a non-profit organization, that the city intends to exercise a reverter clause in the purchase and sales agreement regarding the former Davol Elementary School at 112 Flint St.

Redevelopment: After 9 years of no development, city to take back former Davol Elementary School

In Fall River, homeless people are cleaning up the city. It's a path back to the workforce

Partnering with the Bristol County Training Consortium, the city has rolled out a new pilot work program employing homeless residents and providing skills and counseling to get their lives back on track.

Mayor Paul Coogan said the idea for a work program came after the administration was doing a lot of work with homeless residents and at homeless camps around the city last winter.

The first crews are working around the city now, and the goal of the program is to help people transition back into the workforce.

'It gives you a little bit of dignity': In Fall River, homeless people are cleaning up the city. It's a path back to the workforce

Swansea Mall Drive is unsafe, and residents share ideas to fix it

At a recent meeting held at the Swansea Council on Aging, representatives from the engineering and design firm Fuss & O’Neill spent two hours soliciting input from residents about how they would improve the one-mile stretch of Route 118 from Route 6 to Wood Street.

The road is what lead designer Katherine Patch called “a sea of asphalt,” a four-lane route known for speeding drivers and unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists.

Let's take a look at the current situation for Swansea Mall Drive, what it could look like, and what residents think.

'A sea of asphalt': Swansea Mall Drive is unsafe, and residents share ideas to fix it

Taunton Daily Gazette/Herald News copy editor and digital producer Kristina Fontes can be reached at kfontes@heraldnews.com. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette today.

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