PORTSMOUTH — The town will be the proud owner of another beach if the Town Council approves a purchase-and-sales agreement with the state for Teddi’s Beach in Island Park at Monday …
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By Jim McGaw
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2/24/23
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Editor’s note: Town Historian Jim Garman lectured on the history of North Portsmouth on Jan. 25 at the CFP Arts, Wellness, and Community Center in Common Fence Point. We’ve previously …
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By Jim McGaw
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2/24/23
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Christine de Silva takes photos of a hammerhead shark as it is released during an expedition in Biscayne Bay while a student at the University of Miami. (Photo courtesy of Christine de …
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2/24/23
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PORTSMOUTH — Long before the Wheelers came along, hundreds of fish traps lined these shores, branching west down the coast to Block Island and east to Little Compton, Westport and beyond. …
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By Ted Hayes
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2/23/23
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Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee has coached basketball, ran his own health and racquetball club in Woonsocket, and has been involved in sports since he was a kid. Though he's seen a lot of sports …
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By Ted Hayes
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2/22/23
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The state Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is seeking proposals for the agricultural use of 57 acres of land at the Eight Rod Farm Management Area in Tiverton.
The state's RFP went …
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By Ted Hayes
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2/22/23
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PORTSMOUTH — Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice (VNH&H), a nonprofit home health agency with over 70 years serving Aquidneck Island, has placed its 21,858-square-foot Portsmouth …
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2/22/23
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In the past two months more than 10 large whale standings have occurred in the New York/New Jersey area. Some claim it is the sonar from the offshore wind survey vessels that confuses whales and has …
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By Capt. Dave Monti
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2/22/23
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To the editor:
My name is Vanessa Baker and I’ve been working in the casino business since 1992. Back then smoking was accepted almost everywhere. Thirty years later, casino workers are the …
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2/21/23
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PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School gymnastics team came in second in the Division II state gymnastics championship on Saturday, narrowly losing the top spot by just one point.
The …
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2/20/23
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Portsmouth High senior Morgan Casey was crowned state champion in the girls’ high jump at Saturday’s R.I. Indoor Track State Championship.
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2/20/23
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PORTSMOUTH — The Aquidneck Land Trust (ALT) has announced the conservation of 11.48 acres of farmland across two parcels on Moitoza Lane in Portsmouth.
The property is located …
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2/20/23
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Maeve Tullson scored 14 points to lead the Portsmouth High girls’ varsity basketball team to a 58-46 victory over Cranston West in the preliminary round of the Division I playoffs.
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2/17/23
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PORTSMOUTH — Here's a rundown on what state legislators representing Portsmouth have been up to lately at the State house:
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2/17/23
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PROVIDENCE — Whether it was prescience or presumption of another sinister act about to take place, a state legislator recently submitted a bill to arm police on two college campuses.
In …
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By Mike Rego
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2/16/23
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To the editor: In a democracy, few would argue that public education is a costly, but necessary statewide investment if communities, students and related economies are to thrive. In last week’s …
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2/16/23
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To the editor:
Regarding last week’s Bristol Phoenix article, “Islanders losing parking near Bristol Ferry Landing,” I’d like to offer my suggestion. Mr. Goglia’s …
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2/16/23
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Move the cables to Westport.
That was the word from the Little Compton Town Council last Thursday, which unanimously passed a resolution calling for the "exploration" of a plan to move offshore …
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By Ted Hayes
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2/16/23
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PROVIDENCE — Two local legislators, one from East Providence and the other from just across the Seekonk River in Providence, recently surveyed the “sweet tooth” of respondents while …
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2/15/23
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PORTSMOUTH — If there’s ever been another instance of two basketball teams from the same middle school going undefeated on their way to winning state titles, Tara McCarthy …
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By Jim McGaw
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2/15/23
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The Town Council violated the Open Meetings Act (OMA) when it discussed the town’s pension plan in executive session in September 2020 without proper notification to the public, the R.I. …
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By Jim McGaw
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2/15/23
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The housing market in the East Bay has been in a whirlwind for the past few years, and experts don’t expect much of a change when spring comes around. Lowered post-pandemic interest rates are …
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By Lucy Probert
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2/15/23
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t’s no secret that over the past few years, the housing market has been one of the hottest topics, especially among new buyers. We saw major shifts when the pandemic hit; between heightened …
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By Julia Stearly
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2/15/23
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Crime among adolescents and teens has gone up since 2020, with multiple East Bay communities seeing their highest number of arrests in 2021 or 2022. We examine this troubling trend and search for reasons why that might be.
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/15/23
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At 5 o’clock on a recent Wednesday evening at the Hometown Tavern in Warren, R.I., singer, performer, pianist and teacher Jan Schmidt took the stage.
Not the bandstand, where, in two hours, …
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By Michael Khouri
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2/15/23
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