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Biden, Trump win 2024 Rhode Island Presidential Primaries
To no one's surprise, Joe Biden and Donald Trump were the far-and-away winners of the respective Democratic and Republican races in Rhode Island's Presidential Preference Primary held Tuesday, … more
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EPHS and program alum Zach Pangborn is the new head coach of the Townies' boys' lacrosse team in time for the 2024 season.
Pangborn takes over as new EPHS boys' lacrosse coach
The 2024 East Providence High School boys' lacrosse season will be notable in at least one way for certain, as for the first time in the still relatively brief 16-year history of the program a Townie … more
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Grady Hazlett (left) and Ryan Martin race toward the finish line in the 110-meter hurdles during Monday’s track meet.
BHS boys outdoor track team sprints past Shea, Tiverton and Tolman
The Barrington High School boys outdoor track team rolled to three wins in the season-opening meet on Monday, April 1. The Eagles defeated Shea 142-12, Tiverton 146-8, and Tolman 153-1.   … more
Barrington’s Jack Lawson, shown pitching in a game last season, tossed a complete-game shut-out for the Eagles on Tuesday afternoon, April 2.
Eagles win home opener, 1-0, over East Greenwich
The Barrington High School baseball team knocked off East Greenwich in a rematch of last year’s Division II semifinal playoff series. The Eagles’ Jack Lawson tossed a complete-game … more
A candle bearing Owen Cameron’s image sits atop a skateboard at Channing Memorial Church in Newport Saturday night, when a vigil in his memory was held. Twenty people took to the microphone to share moving tributes to the Portsmouth High School junior, whose body was found in Middletown March 27, four days after he was last seen leaving his job on foot.
‘He was a light’
PORTSMOUTH — Ava McDermott said a simple act of kindness was all it took for her to realize how special Owen Cameron was. more
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Alfred Drown Road Old assessment: $729,000 New Assessment: $1,042,000 Increase: 43 percent
Property assessments increase 30, 40, 50 percent (and more) in Barrington
Property owners in Barrington received their revaluation notices last week and some have already called the Barrington Tax Assessor’s office to discuss them. Barrington Tax Assessor James … more
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East Providence School District puts April 8 eclipse plans in place
The East Providence School District has authored its process of contending with the partial solar eclipse that will envelop the area Monday, April 8, right around the time students in most buildings … more
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Kiffin Ward shows off a saddle bracket, made from a piece of 1/4-inch piece of steel that was cut out from a larger piece by their computer numerical controlled (CNC) fiber laser cutter. The process is fast, efficient, quiet, highly customizable, and accurate, useful for applications in many industries.
This Warren manufacturing business is on the laser's edge of an American comeback story
Ward's Manufacturing, started by two Rhode Island siblings, is proving that small business manufacturing businesses have a lot of potential in the current economy. more
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A class of Roger Williams University students, tasked with an assignment to come up with a hypothetical design plan for the Ocean State Job Lot plaza on Metacom Avenue in Warren, envisioned a multi-use parcel centered around a large auditorium and multiple mixed-use, commercial/residential buildings.
RWU students develop hypothetical re-design of Metacom Avenue plaza
The assignment was near and dear to professor Bob Rulli, who you may remember had a keen interest in trying to redesign the same parcel of land. more
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Arthur DaLuz, a CNC machinist at Applied Plastic Technologies in Bristol, works the line. The company’s management owns land along the Route 6 corridor and is awaiting the results of Tuesday’s referendum on the Route 6 water and sewer project debt exclusion.
Businesses bullish on Westport's $35M Route 6 project
PIX: Front page ROUTE 6 A DIONNE xxxxxxx   Jump ROUTE 6 B A truck speeds down Route 6. There could be a lot more development in the north end if a $35 … more
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Philip Genereux uses special glasses to view a solar eclipse during an event at the Portsmouth Free Public Library in August 2017. While the library is not hosting a formal viewing of Monday’s eclipse, it’s distributing solar eclipse glasses on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.
In Portsmouth: Extra caution urged when viewing eclipse Monday
The last solar eclipse in the United States until 2045 is coming our way Monday, April 8, and its timing has put local schools on alert. more
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Racquel Souza, 7 (left), Kaia flores, 6 and Charlotte Wicks, 9, march in front of the high school auditorium before the meeting. 
Students and parents rally to save Fort Barton School
"Save Fort Barton!" "Five schools strong." "We love our schools and teachers!" "Do better." Tiverton school officials, and their counterparts on the town council, got an eyeful … more
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More than a year ago, the Barrington United Veterans Council requested the town’s assistance in relocating the veterans memorial to a different space away from the flagpole. The town manager denied the request. An effort to reach a compromise with the memorial failed at Monday night's Council meeting.
Veterans memorial compromise stalls at Barrington Council meeting
An effort to erect flagpoles in a new location outside of Barrington Town Hall and remove any outside flags from flying above the veterans memorial failed to garner enough Town Council support on … more
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William Stewart, in a 2021 booking photo.
Tiverton man pleads guilty to child sex charges
A Tiverton man facing a child sex crime admitted in court last week that he enticed and brought a 13-year-old girl with him from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island for the purposes of sex nearly three … more
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Casey Cord (left) and Cam Ruggieri (middle) celebrate they both score on a John Mass double in the sixth inning against Mt. Hope on Monday, as teammates Nick Spaner (mid-right) and Charlie Cord (right) look on.
Portsmouth wins home opener against Mt. Hope, 8-3
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School varsity baseball team started its season in fine fashion Monday, winning a home opener against Mt. Hope by a score of 8-3.   The Patriots … more
Izzy Dente (left) looks on as Julia Burke dribbles up court during the recent Unified Basketball game between Barrington and Mt. Hope.
BHS Unified Basketball team celebrates big win
It looked like the game was over.   It appeared that the clock had run out on the Barrington High School Unified Basketball team during a recent game against Mt. Hope.   BHS Coach … more
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Joe Doyle thought about giving up on his dream of being a musician in his early days of college, but his father, a former East Providence mayor, talked him out of it and pushed him to keep chasing those dreams. Several decades and a thousand recordings later, he is a hall of fame songwriter.
Meet Joe Doyle: From shy kid to Hall of Fame songwriter
One Saturday morning in 1983, when Riverside native, songwriter, singer, musician Joe Doyle was in his freshman year at Rhode Island College studying music, his dad, Ed Doyle (former mayor of … more
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Tim Robitaille (left) and Dylan Annicelli combine the lead the EPHS baseball team in 2024 as the Townies seek to repeat as Division II champions this spring.
A pair of aces!! Townies' hand is flushed as they defend their D-II baseball crown
For just the second time in the 91 seasons the Rhode Island Interscholastic League has sanctioned the sport, the East Providence High School baseball team starts a spring as a reigning champion, the … more
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Mason Conte drives to the basket in the first half of Mt. Hope's game against Barrington last Wednesday. The team is ready to learn and have some fun this season, according to head coach Tom Fullen.
Fun is the name of the game for Fullen and Huskies
Mt. Hope coach Tom Fullen smiled while talking about this season’s unified basketball team. “It’s the most fun that’d I have had coaching,” he said. “How can … more
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Two Portsmouth men arrested on drug, weapons charges
PORTSMOUTH — Police officers from Portsmouth and Middletown executed a search warrant at an Old Mill Lane home Saturday afternoon and ending up arresting two men as part of a joint narcotics … more
Acting chairwoman Veronica Beaulieu played Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” as she announced her resignation Wednesday.
Westport housing board down to one member
Fifteen minutes into last Wednesday’s meeting of the Westport Housing Authority, acting board chairwoman Veronica Beaulieu announced her decision to resign effective this coming Tuesday, April … more
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The BHS Director of Athletics said construction of synthetic turf fields at the middle school will allow the town to rest other natural grass fields.
Barrington school officials agree to send synthetic turf proposal to voters
The plan to build new synthetic turf fields at Barrington Middle School cleared an important hurdle on Thursday night, March 28. Members of the Barrington School Committee voted unanimously to … more
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Mackenzie Pimentel returns to the EPHS softball squad in 2024 as the Townies' starting shortstop.
EPHS softball squad retools in tough top tier
As head coach Katie Solitro sees it the East Providence High School softball team enters the 2024 season not so much "rebuilding," but hopefully rather "reloading." That's what happens when a … more
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Property owners impacted by floods can meet FEMA reps in person
Residents of East Providence who suffered loss or damage from the severe storms December 17-19, 2023 or January 9-13, 2024, can meet with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency … more
Awards up to $750 are available to high school and 8th grade students
Mini grants for Bristol/Warren students open for applications April 1
All high school students, as well as 8th graders looking forward to attending high school in the Fall, should give serious consideration to applying for a mini-grant. more
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