NEW BEDFORD — April 27 — The Port Society of New Bedford has ended its partnership with the fledgling Fishing Heritage Center just months after it was announced.
Late last year the two parties announced the Heritage Center would be located in the Mariners’ Home, which is about to undergo a restoration. Part of the Heritage Center was to be in the Seamen’s Bethel, which will be connected to the Mariners’ Home by a glass corridor.
The project is the recipient of a conditional $440,000 Massachusetts Cultural Council facilities grant, which requires matching funds from the Port Society.
Fred Toomey, president of the Port Society, described what appears to be a mutual misunderstanding of what was to be done with the Heritage Center. “We were working together and everything was moving forward at a good pace,” Toomey said. “They established themselves as a 501(c)3 (nonprofit organization). Then things kind of fell apart.
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