As  part of the Mayor's Clean-up Fall River initiative, the City coordinated cleanups in targeted areas in conjunction with neighborhood groups and community organizations to remove sand and litter from the streets and sidewalks. A group composed of Fall River police officers, and Neighborhood Association volunteers cleared trash along Hartwell Street on May 3, 2008. Click here for the Herald News article about the announcement. Neighborhood clean-ups have already occurred in the Sandy Beach and Maplewood Neighborhoods, and others are planned in coming weeks in the Bank Street, Lower Highlands Historic Downtown, Highland, North End, Father Kelly, Niagara, and Flint neighborhoods. Call the Department of Public Works at 508-324-2584 for information about how the city can assist residents with their own planned cleanup projects. Click here to read the Herald News article about a proposal to eliminate blighted properties. Click here for links to last year's neighborhood clean-ups.
 

(Top row, left and center) Fall River Police officers Debi Jackson and Marybeth Buglio rake up trash along Hartwell Street. (Middle row, left) Corky Row Neighborhood Association member Beverly Poitras hands out tools supplied by the City Department of Public Works for the work crew to use in the clean-up. (Middle row, right) Daryl Robinson sweeps up the remaining debris. (Bottom row, left) Asjahnee Van Ness, Fall River Police Officers Maria Kennedy and Mike Fogarty, Frances Van Ness, Beverly Poitras, Daryl Robinson and Sureatha Coleman all pitch in to clean up the trash that was removed along the sidewalk. (Bottom row, left) Asjahnee works with Officer Kennedy and her mother Frances.

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