To the editor:
Well, we just completed another year, 238 annual celebrations under our collective belt, and we will start looking at number 239 real soon. As I stroll into September, I will …
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7/13/23
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Barrington Town Manager Phil Hervey offered a slight change to the development plans for the former Carmelite monastery property.
Hervey’s version of the plans calls for fewer single …
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By Josh Bickford
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9/14/23
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The Barrington High School football team held Westerly to 40 yards of total offense and powered to a 37-0 victory on Friday night, Sept. 22.
The Eagles treated a large home crowd at …
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By Josh Bickford
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9/25/23
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This Saturday, Oct 14th, at 12:16pm, a partial solar eclipse will begin! Sponsored by the Astronomical Society of Southern New England and Barrington Recreation Department, the Barrington …
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10/11/23
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Barrington Police located a missing teenage girl at about 3:15 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20.
Police said the girl, described as a 19-year-old Barrington resident wearing sweatpants and a hockey …
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By Josh Bickford
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10/20/23
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The owner of the Longplex Family & Sports Center has turned the page on what he said has been a sometimes combative relationship with the Town of Tiverton, and now wants to begin …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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11/1/23
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The trees have been removed, but the cement pad is staying put.
Town officials responded to some of the concerns residents shared about recent changes made to Latham Park.
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By Josh Bickford
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12/6/23
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PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High girls’ varsity basketball team beat East Providence on the road last week for its first win of the season.
The Division I Patriots made easy work of …
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12/18/23
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Here are just a few of Bristol’s biggest stories from 2023 to enjoy as we pin up a new calendar and look forward to a new year of telling stories about our community.
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By Christy Nadalin
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12/30/23
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PORTSMOUTH — Fans of the transfer station finally got what they wanted at Monday night’s Town Council meeting.
Before a crowd of about 200 in the Portsmouth High School auditorium, …
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By Jim McGaw
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1/23/24
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I am publicly calling upon former Lt. Gov. Dan McKee to join 25 other governors and sign a letter of support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is defending his state against illegal immigration.
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2/1/24
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PORTSMOUTH — A 44-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly assaulting a 76-year-old Portsmouth woman.
Officers received information that Matthew C. George, 44, of 288 Sprague St., …
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2/26/24
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The Tiverton Lions Club will hold its 11th annual Henri J. Paré Scholarship fund-raising chorus night concert starring the award-winning Narragansett Bay Chorus. Members from their 20s to 80s …
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5/15/24
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The Barrington School District is suing the state’s highest educational authority, as well as one of its own families, in a third attempt to prove that it properly suspended four middle school students in the winter of 2018. The district already lost this case twice but is refusing to abide by rulings of the Rhode Island Department of Education and the Council on Elementary and Secondary Education.
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By Josh Bickford and Scott Pickering
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11/6/19
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Led by East Providence with 49, then Barrington with 17, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to rise in the East Bay, as in the rest of Rhode Island.
Next door in Westport there …
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4/10/20
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Posed with a simple question, Barrington Town Council member Kate Weymouth had a direct answer.
The question: If you could do it all again, would you still serve on the town council?
Her …
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By Josh Bickford
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7/2/20
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