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Automobile speedometers are not marked STOP or GO; nor are they marked SLOW or FAST. They have gradations — in MPH or KPH — from 0 to 150 or so. We use common sense, road …
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8/15/23
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STORY OF THE WEEK: With a little more than three weeks until the Sept. 5 primary in Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District, the race has entered a more combative phase. A case in point was a …
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By Ian Donnis
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8/15/23
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NOAA Fisheries has established recreational fishing measures for Gulf of Maine cod and haddock and Georges Bank cod for the 2023 fishing year. All measures are effective Aug. 14, 2023, through …
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By Capt. Dave Monti
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8/15/23
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Weeks after an Old Main Road woman first complained about the noise made by crop cannons near her home, members of the Little Compton Town Council on Thursday directed the town clerk to send a …
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By Ted Hayes
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8/15/23
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PORTSMOUTH — Beth Shumway and Virginia Lowney didn’t want to give away their favorite swimming spot or neighborhood, which is somewhere along the Sakonnet River.
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By Jim McGaw
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8/14/23
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A plan to create a new Agricultural Overlay zoning district is heading back to the Little Compton Planning Board for further consideration.
The Agricultural Overlay District, or AOD, was drafted …
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By Paige Shapiro
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8/14/23
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Editor’s note: This is the third in “ Keep the Farm in Farm Coast ,” a series of articles on the changing face of agriculture in the Southcoast and Sakonnet areas. For more, see …
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By Paige Shapiro
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8/10/23
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The Warren Police Department announced the arrest of a Tiverton police officer following an investigation into potential child abuse.
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8/10/23
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To the editor:
The Rhode Island General Assembly should consider making changes to its process. For example, If Rhode Island legislation has been recommended for passage by a committee and then …
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8/10/23
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According to Jordan Day, associate director of the R.I. League of Cities and Towns, this law could be a financial disaster for municipal budgets already straining under the pressure from, well, everything else.
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By Christy Nadalin
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8/10/23
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A Tiverton man will serve life in prison for a series of first degree sexual assaults of which he was found guilty earlier this year.
On Wednesday, Aug. 9, Rhode Island Superior Court Justice …
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8/10/23
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Most baseball fans in these parts look forward to October or February, when the Red Sox pack up their trailers and head south to Fort Myers, Fla., for spring training.
Jason Methia isn’t …
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By Ted Hayes
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8/10/23
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An offshore wind developer wants a state supreme court justice to vacate a decision by state regulators to suspend their review of a Sakonnet River transmission line for the project.
In a …
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By Nancy Lavin/Rhode Island Current
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8/10/23
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A recent contribution to NextDoor from a neighbor remarked upon the peace derived from sitting in a quiet garden, listening to nature.
The soundtrack to my summer, so far, has been the roar of …
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8/9/23
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I am writing to you both in strong opposition to OffShore Wind (OSW) because I am a resident of Watertown with a house in Westport.
Why am I writing now?
Because a baby …
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8/9/23
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It’s hard to turn a blind eye to the ignorance that happens daily at Fogland Beach. If you are like me and frequently find yourself trying to enjoy a nice summer day there, it has become …
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8/9/23
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Members of the Little Compton Planning Board unanimously ruled last Tuesday that a proposed new zoning district does not align with Little Compton’s Comprehensive Plan, one week before the town …
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By Paige Shapiro
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8/9/23
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To the editor:
Recently my wife and I went to Blue Trail Launch Site, which is at the end of Corys Lane in Portsmouth. My wife was scared of this surrounding area, scared to be in an area she …
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8/8/23
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Heed the warnings: Intense fires, devastating floods, rising seas, smoky air, oppressive heat, dying fish, and the list goes on! All creating dangerous conditions for humans, animals, and plants …
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8/8/23
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An initial proposal for another major residential development in the north end of Tiverton was met last week with a barrage of questions from members of the Tiverton Planning Board.
A team …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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8/8/23
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STORY OF THE WEEK: If you want to give Democrats agita, look no further than a New York Times/Siena College poll pointing to a potential neck-and-neck rematch between Donald Trump and President Joe …
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By Ian Donnis
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8/8/23
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The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) has completed the second phase of a two-year project to develop an evaluation model on the operational costs of on-demand fishing gear technology …
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By Capt. Dave Monti
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8/7/23
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A Warren man died Saturday after losing control of his motorcycle just before noon on Route 24 in Tiverton.
Tiverton police said Joseph Morris, 48, was traveling north when he veered off the …
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8/7/23
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To the editor:
Victory Day, is celebrated in Rhode Island on the second Wednesday of August. It marks the surrender of Japan, ending World War II. To celebrate termination of humanity’s …
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8/3/23
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