FALL RIVER ─ Six weeks after the city conducted a sweep of a notorious homeless encampment at the Quequechan Rail Trail that resulted in the arrest of 38 people, the city has set its sights on the homeless enclave at the bottom of Kennedy Park along the river.
A crew from the Department of Community Maintenance and staff from the city’s Fall River Addiction Support and Treatment (F.A.S.T.) team were at the site of the encampment early Thursday morning.
City officials said at one time the Kennedy Park camp was much larger, but some have gone into treatment, found housing, or moved on…