As we head into the week, let's take a look at the news from this past week.

This week it was announced that the Superintendent of New Bedford Public Schools, Thomas Anderson, is headed to his hometown of East Hartford, CT after being hired as superintendent there. A recent Standard-Times report found Anderson to be the No. 2 highest-paid city employee, with a salary of $218,193.68. Anderson will begin his new role effective July 1.

Two Sisters Catering Co., is about to take over the Greater New Bedford area with a grab-and-go spot at 743 Dartmouth Street and a re-launch inside the Buttonwood Park Zoo's Bear's Den Cafe. The Portuguese-style catering company will be serving American cuisine such as pizza, chicken tenders, fries, and burgers, but will offer some Portuguese specials such as their prized chicken Mozambique 

Matt McDonald and Maegan Krifchin, an engaged couple from Cambridge, were the male and female overall champions at the New Bedford Half Marathon on Sunday. McDonald not only shared laurel honors with his fiancee, the Princeton graduate and former Ivy League 10,000-meter champion won New Bedford for the second year in a row.

McDonald, 29, covered the 13.1-mile loop in 1:04:12, defeating runner-up JP Flavin by 79 seconds and beating his 2022 winning time by five seconds.; while Krifchin, 34, and running her first New Bedford Half, finished in 1:12:43. Second-place Jessie Cardin was 32 seconds behind.