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This month the European-Union’s Climate Change Service, Copernicus, said that 2024 will likely end up being the warmest year on record. July 2024 had an average surface air temperature of 62.44 …
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8/27/24
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The Bristol Historical & Preservation Society is holding its House Tour 2024 on Saturday, Sept. 21, when 12 private homes, some of which have not been open for more than 25 years, will be …
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8/27/24
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“American Daughters” is the story of the friendship between Alice Roosevelt, daughter of Presidebnt Teddy Roosevelt, and Portia Washington, daughter of black leader Booker T. Washington, …
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By Donna Bruno
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8/27/24
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Fall sports teams at Barrington High School kicked off the preseason last week.
The football team, coming off its Division II State Championship a year ago, held a shared practice with LaSalle …
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8/27/24
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To the editor:
Let me differ with Scott Boyd’s letter defending town candidate Michael DiPaola ’s obscene and tasteless public tantrum displayed in large colorful signs along East …
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8/27/24
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EAST PROVIDENCE — Bradley Hospital recently received a pair of funding sources for studies it is conducting: Pediatric Anxiety Research Center (PARC) and Early Intervention to Promote …
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8/27/24
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To the editor:
Thirty years ago, the gas company proposed an enlargement of gas pipes to Aquidneck Island. An informational presentation was held at a local high school, perhaps Tiverton High …
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8/27/24
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Tiverton’s Fogland Farm, built in 1730 on an elevated rise overlooking views of Nonquit Pond with the Sakonnet River and the ocean in the distance, is on 84 acres and steeped in history. Only …
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By Lucy Probert
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8/27/24
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A Westport man faces eight assault and other charges after police said he assaulted a father and one of his sons with a baseball bat, and threw rocks at and exposed himself to them Sunday evening.
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By Ted Hayes
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8/27/24
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A Nayatt Road resident called police on Monday, Aug. 19 after she discovered an unknown woman and her dog inside the home.
The resident told police she came home and found the woman — …
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8/27/24
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Weave your way up Bailey’s Ledge, one of the most beautiful and secluded roads in Little Compton, and right off the water sits a home cherished and lovingly maintained by the same family for …
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By Lucy Probert
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8/27/24
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Little Compton Town Council members are considering a town code amendment that, if approved, will create a permit-only parking system giving commercial fishermen and their deckhands almost exclusive …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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8/27/24
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Westport is on the verge of approving its second marijuana dispensary — right next door to its first and only such business.
Select board members on Monday evening reviewed a plan by …
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By Ted Hayes
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8/27/24
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The state of disrepair on Nanaquaket Road has now become a liability to the state and town, and a hazard for recreational cyclists. You can still see the blood stains on the pavement.
It’s …
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8/27/24
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Police responded to Barrington Middle School early Monday morning, Aug. 26, after a custodian found a suspicious note slid into the doors of the school.
Barrington Police Chief Michael …
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8/27/24
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Gone, but not forgotten. Construction of a new housing development on Lorraine Street spelled the end for an ancient silver maple tree. The huge tree had covered the southern end of the property at …
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8/26/24
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EAST PROVIDENCE — From a historic measure for sure, the East Providence High School girls' volleyball program is back where it belongs as it begins the 2024 season this week.
The Townies are coming …
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By Mike Rego
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8/26/24
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EAST PROVIDENCE — Possibly seeing the proverbial "forest through the trees," or better yet grasping the continued backlash he was facing from the neighboring constituency, Mayor Bob DaSilva …
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By Mike Rego
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8/26/24
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Dr. James Arruda, originally of Warren, is one step closer to developing an unprecedented test to help identify people in the early stages of developing Alzheimer’s Disease.
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By Ethan Hartley
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8/26/24
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A Tiverton man involved in an altercation with a Westport woman at a wind power hearing panel earlier this month has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge filed by Newport police.
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By Ted Hayes
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8/26/24
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PORTSMOUTH — When the Town of Portsmouth used a Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) grant in 1968 to purchase nearly five acres of property just west of Portsmouth High School and …
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By Jim McGaw
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8/24/24
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It’s easy to live with disruption. Most folks do it every day. They drive to work with brakes that squeak slightly. They stop thinking about the ache in their back. They eventually learn to …
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8/23/24
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The Barrington Police Department swore in its newest member — a cuddly English Labrador retriever named Levi — at a special ceremony on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 21.
Shortly …
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8/23/24
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East Providence Police officers have arrested a city resident on numerous weapon and drug charges.
Karl Vazquez Ayala, 44, taken into custody following a multi-jurisdictional investigation …
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8/23/24
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State regulators gave long-awaited authorization Thursday, Aug. 22, to a long-term plan to expand liquefied natural gas storage on the Portsmouth-Middletown line.
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By Nancy Lavin/Rhode Island Current
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8/23/24
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