BOSTON — The Leadership South Coast Class of 2009 got to see the top levels of state government operating in a very up close and personal way Wednesday, standing in the Senate chambers when presiding officer Sen. Anthony W. Petrucelli gaveled the Senate budget plan for Fiscal Year 2010 into ...

During a 10-year career as the president and chief executive officer of St. Anne’s Hospital, Metzler became a familiar face on several of the region’s boards and commissions, his services extending from aiding in the search of a Fall River superintendent to serving as the chairman of the Fall River ...

On March 26th, a "BE LOCAL" event was held at the new Rose Alley Ale House, bringing attention to the issue of the "brain drain." This refers to the decreasing likelihood that a college graduate will settle in the area after earning a diploma. Lack of job opportunities, higher pay ...

NEW BEDFORD — Why do so many younger people who grew up in SouthCoast move away after graduating from college, and what can be done to entice them to return? That so-called brain drain has spurred an effort called BE LOCAL by four members of Leadership SouthCoast's class of 2009. On Thursday, ...

(Sus·tain·a·ble, adjective: Capable of being sustained. Capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment... according to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition). Global warming concerns, a year-long debate over a wind farm on Buzzards Bay, grass-roots opposition to a local LNG facility in Fall ...

The rundown of the entrepreneurial opportunities in the greater Fall River and New Bedford area was a lesson for members of Leadership SouthCoast, but it also could have served as a primer for anyone not familiar with new local business initiatives. The 18 people in Leadership SouthCoast -- a yearlong program ...

Noted public speaker Norm Bossio has his audience of Leadership South Coast Class of 2009 enrollees in the palm of his hand as he talks about good motivational and management techniques at the end of the leadership program's two-day retreat at Rachel's in North Dartmouth last week. Chronicle.SouthCoastToday.com By ROBERT BARBOZA Editor September 5, ...

What exactly makes a good leader? Is it listening skills? Creativity? Knowing how to enhance personal relationships? Being able to motivate yourself and those around you? For Tony Vieira, executive director of UMass Corporate Programs and Partnerships and the backbone behind the Leadership Southcoast program, the answer is all that and ...

Leadership SouthCoast's mission is to provide our region with and ongoing source of diverse leaders, who are prepared and committed to serve as catalysts and sustainers of positive change for the quality of life on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts. Leadership SouthCoast selects a diverse group of acknowledged and aspiring leaders to ...

DARTMOUTH -- In the interests of full disclosure, I must immediately confess to being one of the 18 graduates who attended the Class of 2008 Leadership SouthCoast commencement exercises at UMass Dartmouth's Woodland Commons last Wednesday. Like every other graduate, I was thrilled when the special assignment photographer got a nice ...