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Portsmouth High’s Honorah Dougherty took first place in the 500 freestyle at last Friday’s meet against Westerly with a time of 6:27.92. She also won the 100 backstroke in a time of 1:11.39.
Portsmouth swimmers split in swim meet against Westerly
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High girls’ varsity swim team beat Westerly at Roger Williams University on Friday, improving its record to 2-1 in Division II. The 53-27 victory … more
Portsmouth High’s Landon Rodrigues (center) took sixth place in the 55-meter hurdles at the Yale High School Classic on Saturday. His time of 7.88 seconds qualified him for the New Balance Indoor National Championship meet in Boston from March 7-10.
Portsmouth High boys compete at Yale Classic meet
PORTSMOUTH — Several members of the Portsmouth High School boys’ indoor track team competed Saturday at the highly competitive Yale High School Classic, a track invitational held … more
Schneider's anti-Trump stance shows she's a rare breed in U.S. politics
STORY OF THE WEEK: Claudin Schneider is a rare breed in American politics: a Republican and former Rhode Island congresswoman who is doing everything in her power to stop Donald Trump from returning … more
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A President who cared more about the Presidency than the self
‘The Trials of Harry S. Truman – The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953’ By Jeffrey Frank Of all U.S. Presidents, Missourian Harry Truman may have been the … more
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The world gene banks currently hold about 40,000 bean varieties.
La Cocina Povera/The Poor Kitchen – Homage to the Legume
This is the second feature in a series of cultural meals aimed to highlight history, nutrition and simplicity. As I reflect on cultural meals that showcase the heart of a poor kitchen, the bean … more
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John Migliori with his first of 2024.  A 21” Sebago Salmon caught at his favorite Aquidneck Island, RI pond with a Kastmaster lure.
Speed zones save right whales
\NOAA Fisheries announced the annual opening of a Seasonal Management Area (SMA) in Cape Cod Bay to protect North Atlantic right whales starting on Jan. 1, 2024, to May 15, 2024.   All vessels … more
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Haven Box, a nonprofit that provides comfort boxes to survivors of sexual violence, was the beneficiary of the 100 Women Who Care Rhode Island’s fall event.
Networking with a mission
When you put a hundred driven, selfless, passionate women in the same room, good things happen. This was certainly the case earlier this month, when 100 Women Who Care Rhode Island hosted their … more
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In Little Compton, 92-year-old mystery solved
More than 91 years after their deaths, the resting place of two Scottish immigrants who settled in Little Compton in the 1870s, raised a family and died in the darkest days of the Great Depression, … more
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Tiverton passes new building moratorium
In the face of ever-increasing worries over Tiverton’s ability to support new residential development, the town council voted unanimously at its last December meeting to institute a six-month … more
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Bristol and Warren lead the region in ’23 price increases
With only a few exceptions, single family, 2-4 family and condominium prices in the East Bay real estate market continued to climb in 2023 vs. 2022, a continuation of a multiyear trend. Bristol … more
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The legislators are back, and so are familiar fiscal worries
STORY OF THE WEEK: The Rhode Island General Assembly returned to business last week, with the usual feeling of something akin to students returning to the classroom for the first day of school. House … more
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The New England Saltwater Fishing Show is March 8, 9 and 10 at the Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence. The Marlborough Fly Fishing Show is this weekend.
Rhody Fly Rodders celebrate 60th anniversary
The Rhody Fly Rodders, the oldest chartered saltwater fly club in America, is holding a 60th Anniversary Banquet Celebration Saturday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m.at Wright’s Farm Restaurant, 84 Inman … more
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Parking at Little Compton Town Landing can’t be restricted, DEM officials have ruled, as state funds helped pay for improvements there. Now, Little Compton wants to give they money back
Little Compton to state: We don’t want your Town Landing money
It seemed like a slam dunk several years ago when the Little Compton accepted an $80,000 state grant to help fund about 75 percent of the cost of major improvements at the Town Landing. Now, in a nod … more
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Letter: Town deal with SouthCoast Wind deserves support
Next Tuesday, Jan. 16, at Portsmouth High School, there will be a special Town Council meeting to vote on a proposed agreement with SouthCoast Wind to run an electric line along … more
Portsmouth High and the other three schools in the district all received four-star ratings in the state's latest accountability report.
Portsmouth schools all receive 4-star ratings from state
PORTSMOUTH — The town’s four public schools all received a rating of four stars out of a possible five under the Rhode Island Department of Education’s (RIDE) latest school … more
Letter: Gen. Flynn deserves R.I. Hall of Fame induction
I am responding to David Schoorens’s letter in your Dec. 28, 2023 edition. Mr. Schoorens knowingly or unknowingly leaves out the key facts regarding Gen. Flynn’s … more
Disqualifying Trump? It’s a collision course
The Colorado court’s ruling disqualifying Donald J. Trump as a candidate for the presidency on the basis of the 14th Amendment, a clause of which eliminates from holding an office anyone who … more
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RIDOT announces last day of service for temporary Bristol to Providence ferry
Since its inception on December 21, the ferries have carried 3,285 passengers over 12 operating days. The final day will be on... more
Letter: Short-term lessons for a long-term project
We should not dismiss ferry service as a long-term public transportation option altogether. more
Letter: Legislative process needs to be changed
As citizens we don’t get to vote for the leadership or the statehouse rules; our representatives do that. Therefore, we should also press our representatives to place democracy above party and reform the rules of the legislature. more
Letter: LC Ag Land Trust was unfairly maligned in story
Your 14 December coverage of the defrauding of the LC Agricultural Land Trust had somewhat of a Gotcha! flavor to it, created by materially incomplete analysis of what appears to have taken place. … more
Town council member Gary Mataronas said the town is working on solutions to the crop cannon issue, which cropped up again this past summer.
Mataronas: Crop cannon onus is on Ag Trust
Little Compton town councilor Gary Mataronas wants the Little Compton Agricultural Conservancy Trust to do more due diligence when it leases trust-owend land in residential areas to farmers, and he … more
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DEM: No parking restrictions at Town Landing
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) won't allow the town set aside half of the 24 parking spaces at the Town Landing for the exclusive use of Little Compton residents. A … more
About 100 plungers christened 2024 with a bath at Grinnell's Beach Monday.
A numbing start to 2024 in Tiverton
You’ll typically find two kinds of people at the annual New Year’s Day Penguin Plunge in Tiverton — the bold and the not so brave. “I ask people, what group do you want … more
Man in critical condition after New Year's Eve Tiverton crash
A man is in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital after the car in which he was a passenger rolled over on Stone Church Road in Tiverton just before 6:30 p.m. New Year’s Eve. Police … more
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