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Consultant Nancy Morgan begins a Community Conversation with more than 60 people who gathered at Mount Hope Farm on March 27 to discuss the future of a proposed Sowams National Heritage Area.
Sowams Heritage Area talks generate significant interest
More than 130 people attended the Community Conversations presented by the Sowams Heritage Area Project in Bristol and Seekonk recently. more
Warren PD: Five arrests and a Market Street streaker
Police made five arrests and tried to help a naked man on Market Street between April 1-8, 2024. more
Police identify deceased man found in Warren River
A man who was found deceased in the Warren River on Monday, April 8 was identified by Warren Police on Thursday. more
Ed Theberge, Historic Warren Armory; Chris Matos, Director, George Hail Library; Cliff Morey, Massasoit Historical Association; Sarah Weed, Warren Preservation Society; Deb Jobin, Massasoit Historical Association; Scott Mlynek, and John Miranda, Washington Lodge #3, have combined their love for Warren’s history and formed a popular online group to share it with a wider audience. And it’s working!
'Historic Warren' is getting people excited about local lore and history
They started in 2019 and have a Facebook page with over 3,000 followers that began in 2022. The momentum is real, and the interest in their efforts is growing. more
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RIDEM stock ponds in anticipation of 2024 trout season
A rite of spring as much as any other, Opening Day of the 2024 trout season is set for Saturday, April 13, and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has stocked more than 100 … more
Sandra Bonazoli and Jim Dowd married in 1998 and started Beehive Handmade in 1999. Today, 25 years later, they are still going strong.
Beehive Handmade celebrates 25 years in business
This unassuming Water Street shop in downtown Warren holds a fascinating story of true love, determination, and a quarter century of success. more
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Students from Mt. Hope High School’s engineering CTE program, alongside instructors Zach Fenster, Ryan Garrity, and Lauren Enjetit, brought the house to the Rhode Island Home Show last Friday to present to a local girl fighting cancer.
Mt. Hope students design, build, decorate and deliver 'wish house' for local girl
A collaborative project between the school's CTE and arts programs, the house was designed in the style of Disney's "Encanto", and was delivered to a girl battling cancer. more
Warren Police find deceased man in Warren River
The identity of the man, who was described as white and in his 50s, was not immediately released to the public. more
The west-to-east side crossover on Interstate 195 towards the Washington Bridge will be moved closer to the span in an attempt to alleviate congestion.
RIDOT preps new lane configuration on east side of bridge
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation will shift the location of the crossover from the westbound side of Interstate 195 to the eastbound side and eventually over the Washington Bridge as … more
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Multiple mistakes published in Warren's preliminary budget announcement
Some readers woke up shocked to see what appeared to be a proposed 33% tax increase when they checked the preliminary budget in the Warren Times-Gazette Wednesday morning. more
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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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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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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
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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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
Warren PD: Police make four arrests, thwart ding-dong-ditchers
Warren police made four arrests between March 18-25, 2024. more
Providence Country Day School announces second trimester honor roll
Providence Country Day School has named the students who have earned recognition on the 2023-2024 second trimester honor roll. For Middle School (Classes of 2027-2030), High Honors is all grades … more
Simona Simpson-Thomas began her career as a teacher at Highlander Charter School, which has a Pre-K to 6th grade campus in Providence and a grade 7-12 campus in Warren. She was recently approved to become its new superintendent.
Highlander Charter School hires Simona Simpson-Thomas as new superintendent
A little over two years after being denied for a consulting job by a split vote of the Bristol Warren Regional School Committee, Simona Simpson-Thomas returns to the East Bay to lead Highlander Charter School. more
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Owen Cameron of Portsmouth was last seen leaving his job in Middletown at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday night, March 23.
Heartbreak: Body of missing Portsmouth teen found
MIDDLETOWN — The body of Portsmouth teen Owen B. Cameron, who was last seen Saturday night after leaving his Middletown job, was discovered late this morning in that town. more
Here is the three-word code for the front entrance to the East Bay Media Group office at 1 Bradford St. in Bristol.
Location app gives a boost to the Rhode Island 911 system
Here’s a scenario one could imagine quite easily here in this little corner of the world … The owner of a small boat invites friends for a day out on the water, fishing, eating and laughing. At some point during the day, the captain slumps over in some sort of distress, possibly a heart attack. more
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Richard Allaire, owner of Metacom Kitchen, gazes out the window at 322 Metacom Ave., where he began a successful restaurant in 2014.
Metacom Kitchen, a pillar of Warren's culinary renaissance, to close in April
After nearly a decade, and despite booming business, Metacom Kitchen in Warren will close down on April 22. more
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Fundraiser launched to restore crumbling Warren Town Hall chimney
“If somebody gets bonked on the head with a brick and we get a lawsuit, we know what that does to town finances.” more
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A New England Aquarium team in an aerial survey plane spent about 45 minutes observing and taking photos of this gray whale, which has been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 years.
Gray whale, extinct in the Atlantic, seen in New England waters
In an incredibly rare event, the New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast earlier this month. This is a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for … more
Contractors prepare the approach to the eastbound side of the Washington Bridge to soon receive three lanes of motorists.
RIDOT closes East Providence exit overnight to accommodate bridge lane changes
EAST PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is informing motorists as part of it ongoing effort to alleviate the intense congestion on the Washington Bridge since the … more
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