The Mt. Hope baseball team slugged 14 hits to crush Cranston East 10-6 in the team’s first ever Division I playoff win at Guiteras Field on Tuesday afternoon. Mt. Hope improved their season …
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Story and photos by Richard W. Dionne, Jr.
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6/1/22
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This year's Barrington Memorial Day Parade celebrated "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" - the cause for which veterans and deceased service members fought.
The parade traveled along …
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5/31/22
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PORTSMOUTH — The veterans who laid down their lives for our freedoms “were ordinary people who responded in extraordinary ways in extreme times,” the guest speaker at Monday …
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By Jim McGaw
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5/30/22
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Barrington residents and non-residents alike can look forward to a new farmer’s market in town this summer.
The farmer’s market will be held at St. John’s Church on Thursdays, …
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5/30/22
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The Advanced Placement chemistry students from Barrington High School competed in the annual URI Chemistry contest recently, and brought home the top team award and also swept the individual awards.
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5/30/22
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PORTSMOUTH — Sorry, pickleball enthusiasts. The sport won’t be coming to Portsmouth just yet.
The town recently learned that its 2022 Department of Environmental Management (DEM) …
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By Jim McGaw
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5/29/22
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The Barrington Town Council is encouraging the public to attend a workshop on Tuesday, May 31 to provide feedback on whether the sale of recreational cannabis should be permitted in …
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5/29/22
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After a two-year hiatus, the Hampden Meadows School Tough Tiger returned with a new course, new obstacles, but the same fun atmosphere.
Hundreds of competitors — young and old — …
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5/27/22
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PORTSMOUTH — Is there a little free library near you?
Portsmouth has a small but growing number of these tiny free lending libraries — basically free-standing cupboards that are …
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By Jim McGaw
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5/27/22
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Engineers hired to study improved traffic control at the intersection of Route 177, Robert Street and Tickle Road believe a roundabout remains the best option for reducing accidents at the site, …
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By Ted Hayes
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5/27/22
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A majority the Sakonnet area's legislative delegation is celebrating legal recreational marijuana in the Ocean State, following Gov. Dan McKee's passage Wednesday of the Rhode Island Cannabis Act, …
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By Ted Hayes
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5/27/22
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Samantha Golden, the 2016 winner of the Bristol Miss Fourth pageant, has her eyes set on another prize — the title of Miss Rhode Island — and will be competing in a pageant this weekend for that chance.
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By Ethan Hartley
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5/27/22
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The Mt. Hope softball team clinched the Division II South title as they out-slugged Portsmouth 8-4 during a home game on Tuesday afternoon. The Huskies finished the regular season 16-0 in league play and 17-1 overall.
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By Richard W. Dionne, Jr.
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5/27/22
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A proposal to build a 24-hour convenience store, gas station and drive-through coffee shop at Souza and Main roads isn't sitting well with neighbors and some planning board members, who are concerned …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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5/27/22
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Warren will observe Memorial Day with two days of events on Sunday and Monday. See the full schedule and parade route here.
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5/27/22
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Beginning at 9 a.m. at the North Burial Ground, the opening program will include remarks from the guest speaker and parade marshal, Lt. Col. Sheri Boucher, USAF.
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5/27/22
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The chairwoman of the Barrington School Committee has offered a response to Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Lanphear’s ruling that the committee violated the Open Meetings Act when it …
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5/27/22
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To the editor:
Little Compton's Agricultural Trust is a national treasure and a model for how to protect open space and environmental quality against overdevelopment. I watched the costs of …
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5/27/22
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Westport will honor the sacrifice of its veterans, and those across the country, when it holds its annual Memorial Day parade and ceremony this coming Monday, May 30.
The town's Office of …
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5/27/22
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To the editor:
In the rural town in which I live, our road system is slowly failing. Little by little, stormwater is eroding “everything.” To slow down/redirect the stormwater …
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5/27/22
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To the editor:
Some witticisms, true then, are true now.
Cowboy wit Will Rogers once said “I am a member of no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” Sure enough, the …
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5/27/22
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To the editor:
My reason for voting against flying the Pride flag on the Little Compton Town Hall was not anti-LGBTQ, but was for the reasons below:
First off, I want to say that …
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5/27/22
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Bristol Police activity from May 16-23, 2022.
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5/27/22
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A Rhode Island Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday, May 25, that the Barrington School Committee violated the state’s Open Meetings Act by failing to provide sufficient notice before enacting …
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By Josh Bickford
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5/26/22
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Whaling was the first American industry to exhibit any diversity, and the proportion of men of color people who participated was amazingly high. A man got to be captain not because he was white or …
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5/26/22
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