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Keating has quickly made inroads on SouthCoast
Bill Keating is nothing if not a quick study and hard worker.

Since learning that he'd be representing New Bedford and part of Fall River in the new 9th congressional district, the current 10th District congressman has seemingly been everywhere on the SouthCoast.
 

He's shown up at the installation of judges and the inaugurations of mayors, the dedication of the New Bedford's World War II memorial and even did one of the readings at The Moby-Dick marathon.

"You cannot represent a place unless you get to know a place," he told me last week during a 45-minute, first-time interview.

Soon after the redistricting process, to get to know New Bedford, the 59-year-old Keating and his wife Tevis visited the city without anyone knowing them, taking in, among other sites, Fort Taber and the National Park, and lunching at Freestone's.

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