The Tiverton Town Council recently approved a request from the owners of a local gun store and indoor shooting range to expand their hours of operation, following a public hearing earlier this month …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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4/29/22
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The Little Compton Town Council will defer action on a request from Carolyn’s Sakonnet Vineyard for a BV retail beverage license until questions can be answered about future business plans for …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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4/29/22
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Tiverton's old dinghy dock has been gone from the Stone Bridge abutment and Grinnell's Beach for years, but should be back in plenty of time for this year's busy summer season.
Workers will soon …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/29/22
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If true group athleticism involves perseverance, hard work, confidence, friendship and trust, Tiverton High School has it in spades. The school was recently recognized as a "National Unified …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/28/22
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The white noise, a deafening, thick thing that pushes out all else, has consumed Mara's life: It drowns out her mother's incessant drone. Her friends' questions and concerns. It threatens …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/27/22
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"F*** Biden."
The words on Joe Sousa's white sign, and a drawing of a hand with uplifted middle finger, are clear as day and leave no doubt where the elected Tiverton Budget Committee member …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/26/22
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Volunteers with the Tiverton Historic Cemeteries Commission will spend Saturday cleaning years of overgrowth from a historic cemetery on Furey Avenue, and they could use some help.
The public is …
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4/22/22
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One blade of sea grass at a time, Fogland Beach's sand dunes are growing.
A group of about 30 volunteers spent a sunny afternoon last Thursday plugging native grasses into sand berms deposited …
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4/22/22
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PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Patriots’ softball team dropped a close one to Tiverton on Thursday at home, 7-6.
Mary Rainey, a PHS freshman, earned the player-of-the-game …
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4/17/22
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The algae blooms that plague South Watuppa Pond could take years to address. But officials studying the pond's health say it can clearly be improved, though doing so will take a concerted and …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/15/22
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Little Compton resident Keith Cory, an educator and long-time athletic administrator, has been named Athletic Director of the Year by the Rhode Island Interscholastic Athletic Administrator …
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4/15/22
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"Goodbye, Esper," a haunting story about death and deliverance, has won a Little Compton student recognition in a statewide short fiction contest, and her work will be published in an upcoming …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/15/22
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Every now and then, the Rhode Island General Assembly confronts a bill that is not like other bills. It is bigger, bolder, more significant in promise and impact. The “Shoreline Access” …
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By Scott Pickering
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4/13/22
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Tiverton attorney Wendy Taylor never imagined that West Place, the animal sanctuary she founded in her back yard in 2007, would be anything other than a hobby — a small non-profit she hoped …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/12/22
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Stumbling blocks to public access remain at the so-called Ratcliffe property in Little Compton, a five-acre tract which accesses prized Almy's Creek and was purchased late last year by the Little …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/7/22
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Five members of the Rhode Island General Assembly met with a room full of local business leaders, and the predominant topic of conversation was how to spend about $1 billion in federal monies.
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By Scott Pickering
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4/1/22
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PORTSMOUTH — Alex Silva sent his teammates and fans home happy Tuesday afternoon.
A member of the Portsmouth Middle School unified basketball team, Alex sank a jumper right before the …
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3/30/22
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Denise Cosgrove knew it was coming. Still, the new property values that came in during Little Compton's recent statistical revaluation are staggering, she said:
"The (real estate) climate is so …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/29/22
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Carolyn's Sakonnet Vineyard owners want the right to sell distilled spirits on their property, and the Little Compton Town Council members voted Thursday evening to seek legal input from the town's …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/25/22
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A year ago, Mia Leroux was a high school sophomore, a distance-learning student who spent her days at home, Zooming into classes with her friends. Today Mia is going to school full-time in a dual …
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By Scott Pickering
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3/23/22
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Westport photojournalist Alex Carrigg has seen a lot, but that didn't prepare him for the overwhelming crush of humanity that greeted him when he touched down in Warsaw, Poland in early March, rented …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/21/22
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A 12-acre stretch of coastal land just south of Fogland Beach has sold for $1.2 million, the biggest land sale in Tiverton in six years. The property at 0 High Hill has two approved buildable lots, …
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3/11/22
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As most municipalities begin their annual budgeting cycles in earnest, we took time to analyze the tax burdens in all Rhode Island cities and towns. Using public data from the Rhode Island Division …
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By Scott Pickering
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3/4/22
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Students in Tiverton and Little Compton will officially be maskless Monday, after the school committees in each town declared masks optional just prior to the ending of the governor's executive order …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/4/22
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The truism holds that if you catch a fish for someone, you'll feed them for a day — but if you teach them to fish, you'll feed them for a lifetime. A priest visiting the United States from …
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By Ted Hayes
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2/25/22
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