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Soccer teams play a game on Chianese Field a few years ago.
Athletic fields and facilities workshop is tonight, Feb. 1, in Barrington
The Barrington Town Council will host a workshop tonight, Wednesday, Feb. 1 to discuss athletic fields and athletic facilities in town.  The workshop will be held in the town hall council … more
Magnus Thorsson explains how the solar panel installation will work at the Bay Spring Community Center. Thorsson said the system would operate behind the meter — it would sell excess electricity back to the grid and also continue to power the Bay Spring Community Center’s needs in the case of an outage.
Solar panels coming to community center in Barrington
An array of solar panels will be installed at the Bay Spring Community Center. The Barrington Town Council approved the installation at its Jan. 9 meeting after listening to a presentation about … more
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A view of the multi-purpose field being constructed behind Riverside Middle School from the adjacent new parking lot built to alleviate traffic issues on campus and the Riverside Rec Complex next door.
Infrastructure Bank awards $300,000 in grant monies to East Providence
PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank board recently voted to award a total of $2.5 million in Municipal Infrastructure Grant Program funds several communities it deemed … more
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Trey Rezendes netted a season-best 23 points in just three periods, including 11 alone in the second quarter, as EPHS routed visiting Central for a Division I boys' hoops win January 31.
Townies throttle Knights in key Division I boys' hoops clash
EAST PROVIDENCE — Most everything about East Providence High School’s performance Tuesday evening, Jan. 31, was impressive as the host Townies ran Central out of Ramos Gym by a 58-37 … more
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A child’s pack ’n play sits directly beside a wood-burning stove inside the house at 36 Kinnicutt Ave. An inspection of the house’s interior last week led to its condemnation on Monday morning.
Squalid conditions lead Warren to condemn house, remove tenants
A single-family home located at 36 Kinnicutt Ave. was ruled by Warren Housing Court Judge John J. Rego to be unsuitable for occupancy and in violation of multiple housing ordinances. more
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Cam Leary drives to the basket in the fourth quarter of the team's home win over Avon Friday. 
Brodeur and Morotti power Wildcats past Avon 59-40
Hunter Brodeur scored 21 points and Max Morotti netted 19 as Westport pasted Avon 59-40 in a MAC league home game Friday night. The Wildcats have won four straight and seven of their last eight as … more
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Donation bins are currently only allowed at the Tiverton landfill, which closed at the end of November. While there has been talk of allowing them town-wide, some want to go in the opposite direction and ban them altogether in Tiverton.
Tiverton could dump donation bins
Donation bins — the large metal containers that can often be found stuffed to overflow with toys, clothing and other castoffs in parking lots and private property — could be a thing of … more
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Portsmouth High’s Sierra Bonoff contorts herself while delivering her floor routine at Saturday’s gymnastics meet against Middletown, Mt. Hope, and Rogers/East Providence. She earned a 7.9 for the event.
Portsmouth High girls are tops in 4-team gymnastics meet
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School gymnastics team continued its impressive season by winning a four-team meet at Strive Gymnastics in Somerset on Saturday. The Patriots came out on top … more
Lara Tolley competes in the 500 freestyle during Barrington's meet against Lincoln.
In the pool, Lions are no match for Eagles
The Barrington High School swim teams swept Lincoln in a regular season meet on Friday afternoon, Jan. 27, at the Bayside Family YMCA pool.   The Barrington boys team overpowered Lincoln, … more
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Barrington High School’s Unified Theater program will present “Twisted Tales” on Feb. 10.
Students take the lead in Unified Theater production
Student-written. Student-directed. Student-performed. This year’s Unified Theater production at Barrington High School is offering dozens of local students an opportunity to get involved … more
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Amani Helger, a fifth-grader at Portsmouth Middle School, shows off a critter she found at the Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm, which was just awarded $78,889 in grant funding from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation.
Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm wins $78,889 grant
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm Program has been awarded $78,889 in grant funding from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation (vBCF), the Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District … more
Zelda Hayes sings and plays the guitar to Stick Season by Noah Kahan.
Musicafe puts Mt. Hope musicians in the spotlight
The Musicafe at Mt. Hope High School is a series of open mic nights that has been a highlight of the school's extracurricular calendar since 2017. more
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Max Morotti drains one of his five 3-pointers that he made during the game.
Brodeur, Morotti score 40 points as Wildcats demolish Avon 59-40
Hunter Brodeur scored 21 points and Max Morotti netted 19 as the Westport basketball team pasted Avon 59-40 in a MAC league home game on Friday night. The Wildcats have won four straight and seven of … more
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Kali Rocha (row 1 left), Lola Silva, Karsyn Medeiros, Emma Serbst, Lilliana Redman and Hannah Rezendes. Olivia Neverka-Vinciguerra, Chloe Carreiro, Bella Almeida, Claudia Green, Ryan Coffey, Sonia Bradley, Jessica Deal, Scarlett Drawbridge and Thea Jackson. Missing from photo are Mackenzie Forrestal, Sarah Bissonnette and Lucy O’Brien.
Underclassmen power indoor track team to division title
The Mt. Hope girls indoor track team won the school’s first ever Dwyer Division Championship at the Providence Career and Technical Academy on Saturday. The Huskies compiled 134.5 points to … more
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LEFT: Guiteras Elementary School custodian Bobby Santos earned the District Superstar award back in November from the Bristol Warren Regional School Committee following his actions during a lunch period in October of 2022, where he saved a student who was choking. RIGHT: Hugh Cole Elementary TA Bonnie Dion was honored by the School Committee in January following her own act of lifesaving efforts in December, when a student began choking in the school cafeteria.
Heimlich heroes get nationwide recognition
A custodian from Bristol and a TA from Warren received an award from the national AFSCME union for their lifesaving efforts in late 2022. more
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The Barrington High School field hockey team, shown playing on artificial turf in a playoff game, has taken it upon themselves to find an artificial turf field to practice on. The team raises money through cookie dough sales and other fund-raisers to pay rental fees for the artificial turf field in Seekonk. 
Athletic Director supports the call for artificial turf in Barrington
George Finn believes there is a need for an artificial turf athletic field in Barrington. The need is there, he said, not just for the sports teams at Barrington High School, where he serves as … more
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Portsmouth High’s Landon Rodrigues won the division championship in the long jump with a best leap of 20 feet, 6.75 inches.
Portsmouth indoor track team takes 2nd in divisional championships
PORTSMOUTH — Landon Roderigues won two events as Portsmouth High’s boys’ indoor track team took second place in the Southern division during Saturday’s Division … more
Korynne Holden scored 12 points during the team's win over Avon. Above she makes a pass during the Southeastern game.
Sylvain scores 15 points as Wildcats squash Avon 48-11
Leah Sylvain scored 15 points as Westport girls basketball team improved to 10-1 after squashing Avon 48-11 in a MAC league away game on Friday evening. Sylvain, the Wildcats’ senior point … more
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Nazarae Phillip performs "Always Something More Beautiful" by Stephen Dunn during her winning performance at the 2023 EPHS "Poetry Out Loud" contest Thursday, Jan. 26.
Phillip repeats as East Providence’s ‘Poetry Out Loud’ winner
EAST PROVIDENCE — East Providence High School students participated in the fourth edition of the district’s “Poetry Out Loud” competition Thursday night, Jan. 26, in the … more
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Sue Young with a sign at the CFP Arts, Wellness and Community Center, advertising a fund-raiser she’s organizing next month. Young is celebrating 10-plus years of good health after suffering a serious heart attack.
Giving back after getting a second chance
PORTSMOUTH — Sue Young still remembers the date when her life was thrown upside down: Nov. 23, 2012. At the time, she was a healthy and busy 57-year-old. more
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Everyone was Irish during last year's parade in Adamsville. This is the event's second year.
'World's shortest' St. Patrick's Day parade returns
Save Saturday, March 18 on your calendar — this could only take a few minutes. The "World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade" is coming back, a year after the Kinnane brothers of … more
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Ethan Knight (left), shown taking the baton during a relay event at a previous meet, set a new school record in the 55-meter hurdles during the Metropolitan Division Championships.
Eagles edge Rams, clinch Metropolitan Division track title
On Saturday, the Barrington High School boys indoor track team defeated LaSalle 145-141 to win the Metropolitan Division Championships.   It was the first time that Barrington has won the … more
Two offshore wind forums scheduled in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH — The CFP Arts Wellness Community Hall, 933 Anthony Road, is the site for two upcoming information forums on the topic of offshore wind. “Offshore Wind and the … more
Rep. Jason Knight is a proponent for common sense gun control measures. He has drafted a bill that would ban assault weapons.
East Bay lawmaker drafts assault weapons ban bill
Rep. Jason Knight grew up around guns. One of his earliest memories of firearms was firing a gun when he was around five years old.  “I grew up in a time and place, it was just … more
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East Providence Police officers investigate suspicious death of dog
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence Department’s Detective and Animal Control units are actively investigating a case of animal cruelty in the Riverside section of the city after a … more
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