By ETHAN HARTLEY The Pilgrim Political Involvement Club (Pil-PI) scored its highest ranking political guest speaker yet, as Lt. Governor Daniel McKee stopped by Pilgrim High School on Tuesday to talk to club members about the Lt. Governor's role in
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/8/18
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LARCENYA report of stolen rims and tires from a car at the Balise Collision Center on Jefferson Boulevard came to Officer Michael Walker on Jan. 25 at approximately 7:38 a.m.The reporting party told …
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2/8/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Warwick Police announced Tuesday that two suspects had been arrested for their involvement in a stabbing that occurred outside of a convenient store in Conimicut on Monday, Feb. 5. According to the release sent out by Warwick Police
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/8/18
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“We have three children,” said Jennifer Grace as she sat at a small, round table in a brightly-lit room at Hope Hospice and Pallative Care (HHPCRI) in Wakefield. A box of tissues was in the …
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By Jen Cowart
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2/8/18
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The Johnston/North Providence Co-op boys’ hockey team snapped its four-game losing streak with a commanding, 6-0 shutout of Narragansett/Chariho Co-op at URI’s Brad Boss Arena on Saturday …
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Matt Metcalf
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2/8/18
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Michael Muller, PharmD, BCPPS, a clinical pharmacist specialist in neonatology at Women & Infants Hospital was recently recognized as the Health System Pharmacist of the Year by the Rhode Island Society of Health System Pharmacists. This is the society's
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2/8/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Consumers are being advised to not consume meats and cheeses purchased from the Stop & Shop deli located at 300 Quaker Lane between the dates of Jan. 18 and Feb. 2 following a possible exposure to Listeria monocytogene bacteria, which
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/7/18
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Cranston Mayor Allan Fung’s father, Kwong-Wen Fung, died over the weekend at 89 years old due to complications from Parkinson’s disease, which Mayor Fung said he’s had a “long battle …
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By Thomas Greenberg
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2/7/18
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Virginia “Ginny” E. (Vidler) Slack, 63, passed away Sunday, February 4, 2018 at the Kent Hospital. She was the wife of the late Wallace A. Slack for 26 years.
Born in Warwick, she was …
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2/7/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY In an interview following an article that covered the Rhode Island League of Cities and Town's panel discussion of the state's binding arbitration process, the state firefighters union has responded strongly to criticisms levied against
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/6/18
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Snow was in the forecast and that was good news. At least I thought so. That was 40 years ago today, and I had a passion for cross-country skiing. As soon as there was enough, I was off for a loop around Seaview Golf Course - now Harborlights - or a
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By John Howell
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2/6/18
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Deep roots of kindness Jen Lima, whose son Justin Lima was good friends with Kevin Lorenz, said she burst into tears when she found a cross carved into the stump of the tree where 26-year-old Lorenz died in a motorcycle accident on June 5, 2015. The tree
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2/6/18
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By JOHN HOWELL President Trump won't be on the November ballot. That hasn't stopped former Warwick State Representative Joseph Trillo from running as Rhode Island's Trump candidate for governor. A Republican turned independent, Trillo ran the president's
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By John Howell
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2/6/18
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE On Jan. 26 at approximately 5:42 p.m., Officer Fontaine was at the intersection of Woguagonet and Oakland Beach Avenue when he observed a silver Chevrolet Impala traveling south on Oakland Beach Avenue at a high rate of speed.
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2/6/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Some of Rep. K. Joseph Shekarchi's supporters thought he might be up against the Super Bowl. Would many of those thinking of attending his $150 a ticket fundraiser at the Crowne Plaza Thursday night already be in Minneapolis? Indeed, Aram
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By John Howell
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2/6/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Alan Shawn Feinstein is one of the many who want to see the PawSox stay in Rhode Island. That wasn't the reason he was in the audience Saturday morning at Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers in Cranston, although there is a connection. Feinstein was
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By John Howell
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2/6/18
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It was a combination of chance and inspiration that led Andrew Grover to build scaled-down LEGO models of the closed Aldrich and Gorton Junior High Schools.
The plastic pieces of architectural art …
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By Koby Gartner
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2/6/18
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Margaret E. (Smith) Brown, 93, passed away Thursday, February 1, 2018 surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife of the late William F. Brown.
She was the beloved mother of Theresa Rotondo …
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2/6/18
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By DON FOWLER Many of us remember the big bands attracting hundreds of dancers and music lovers to Cranston's Rhodes on the Pawtuxet. This February 10 there will be two world-renowned bands attracting hundreds of Cajun and Zydeco music lovers to the
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By Don Fowler
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2/4/18
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MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE * * * (Action packed teen heroics) The latest in the teenagers save the world series is packed with action, as Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) leads his heroic crew into the walled city they once escaped from to save his friend Minho
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By Joyce & Don Fowler
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2/4/18
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Barbara E. Tougas, 81, of Warwick, died Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at the St. Jeanne Jugan Residence in Pawtucket. She was the beloved wife of the late Edward D. Tougas.
Born in Providence, she …
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2/4/18
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Citizens Bank announced recently that its Community Development Group has provided $9 million in financing in the form of a tax-exempt bond to Pawtucket Development Group, LLC for the acquisition and renovation of a vacant historic mill, known as Lippitt
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2/3/18
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Carole A. Burgess, 44, passed away Sunday, January 14, 2018.
She was the loving daughter of John A. Morretti, Lorraine F. (Card) Mitchell and her husband, Patrick L. Mitchell, Sr.; maternal …
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2/3/18
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By Jennifer (Soscia) Carulli) (A Poem about Anthony Soscia) Life goes by so fast It's amazing how quickly the years pass. 100 years ago my Grandpa entered this earth The world has been blessed since the time of his birth. My Grandpa was one of a kind
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By Jennifer (Soscia) Carulli
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2/3/18
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Sunday open house The city's three parochial schools, St. Rose of Lima, St. Peter and St. Kevin held open houses on Sunday to lead off Catholic School Week this week. For many parents it was an opportunity to meet and talk with their child or children's
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2/3/18
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