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AG Kilmartin opposes Invenergy power plant
Johnston’s $18 million agreement with Invenergy to resell water from the Providence Water Supply Board to the company’s proposed Burrillville power plant has hit another legal … more
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Firefighters snuff Bristol house fire
Bristol firefighters quickly doused a house fire at 1 Jenkins St. this afternoon, before it spread from the deck into the house itself. The fire started around noon after a smoldering towel was … more
The plan is to open a new location here, at 362 Market St. First, town regulators need to sign off on the plan and approve a zoning change request.
Cumby’s wants to relocate in Warren
The Cumberland Farms corporation has plans to close its convenience store at 66 Market St. and build a new location at the current site of the driving range opposite Schoolhouse Road. Company … more
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Police Log
The Police Log is a digest of reports provided by the Johnston Police, Rhode Island State Police and other departments. POSSESSION While in the area of Serrel Sweet Road and Taunton Street on … more
JHS Mock Trial team makes its case
Like most events that were scheduled for Friday, Jan. 5, a rather unique court case that was to be heard beginning at 12:30 p.m. inside the Johnston Municipal Court House was postponed because of a … more
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Western Hills announces first quarter honor roll
The following students have earned first quarter honors at Western Hills Middle School: Grade 8 High Honors Josaris Agosto, Irina Amadio, Kylie Boatner, Molly Brown, Juliana Bucci, Angelica Bueno, Olivia Cataldi, Taylor Cheshier, Jacob Chin, Janelis more
Reed promotes $100 billion legislation for school repairs
Johnston school officials and local leaders joined in applauding Senator Jack Reed at Johnston High School last Friday as he talked about legislation he introduced last August for $100 billion in … more
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Comeback RI
By ETHAN HARTLEY Governor Gina Raimondo delivered her second State of the State address from the Rhode Island State House on Tuesday evening, weaving through a long list of topics relevant to what she claimed to be signs of Rhode Island's continuing more
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Police Log
DUTY TO STOP On Jan. 3 at approximately 1:13 p.m. Officers Brian Murray and Joseph DeDonato responded to the area of Gilmore Furniture on Post Road for a hit and run accident. The victims of the accident gave the officers the plate numbers and DeDonato more
Coates in new role as Carpionato as president, COO
By JOHN HOWELL Alfred Carpionato, who built a $1 billion empire of retail shopping centers, hotels, apartment complexes and restaurants, will be doing more of what he enjoys doing most - says the man who succeeds him as president and chief operating more
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Mail deliveries resumed, but can`t walks be cleared?
By JOHN HOWELL Main Avenue residents are getting their mail delivered once again now that the temperatures have climbed out of the single digits and, most importantly, the snow has melted. That's good news for Sue Rezendes, although it offers little more
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Republicans offer dimmer state of the state
By ETHAN HARTLEY Republican politicians didn't sit idly by on Tuesday while Democratic Governor Gina Raimondo delivered her State of the State address. Prior to Raimondo's speech, House of Representatives minority leader Patricia Morgan and a Republican more
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After all these years, ‘Bud’ Voigt receives WWII medals
Warwick resident and World War II combat veteran Willard D. “Bud” Voigt was presented with several prestigious awards at the Rhode Island National Guard Command and Readiness Center on Friday, … more
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School officials say the flooded field at Barrington Middle School — the future site of the new middle school building — was to be expected following the rain storm on Friday. "We concluded that nothing appears out of the ordinary for a heavy rain event, at this location," wrote KBA architect Larry Trim. "Fields typically drain slower than roads and buildings."
Officials respond to flooded Barrington Middle School field
The site of the future Barrington Middle School was covered with a large puddle on Saturday morning, following a significant rain storm. Larry Trim, of the Kaestle Boos architecture firm, said the … more
7th grader David Gomes to represent Park View in RI Geographic Bee
By JEN COWART It was an intense morning in the auditorium at Park View Middle School on Wednesday, January 10 as students watched their peers on stage as finalists for the school's National Geographic Bee. Eight students representing each team for the more
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A computer rendering of the new Barrington Middle School's interior.
Middle school project praised as 'model' for other communities
Barrington school officials have been charting their own course with the middle school project, and may be building a blueprint for other schools across the state to follow. More than five years … more
Barrington's Michael Obel-Omia leads the Pedaling for Parkinson's class at the Bayside YMCA on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Mr. Obel-Omia is recovering from a stroke he suffered in May 2016, and was excited to lead the special spin class.
Rising to the challenge at the Bayside YMCA
Michael Obel-Omia was nervous. In a few short minutes, the Barrington resident was to lead a spin class inside a fitness room at the Bayside YMCA. People had already started to arrive and staff … more
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Sun Rise Scoops
Ocean State Toastmasters to Meet Ocean State Toastmasters will hold its next meeting on Jan. 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Warwick City Hall, 3275 Post Road. Regular meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The club is more
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Advisory board gets introduction to Cranston's third high school
By JEN COWART As the Cranston Education Advisory Board (CEAB) progresses through their year, they have taken the opportunity to host their meetings at a variety of schools in Cranston. On Monday night they paid a visit to Cranston's third high school, more
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Numi Mitchell, lead scientist of the Narragansett Bay Coyote Study, points to an area on a Portsmouth map where the highest concentration of coyote sightings were reported to police over the past year.
Portsmouth Police, scientist: Stop leaving food for coyotes
PORTSMOUTH — The pins told the story. Stuck onto a street map of Portsmouth displayed at Town Hall Tuesday night, a cluster of them showed where the biggest concentration of coyote … more
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Letter: Defending 'fake science'
To the editor: As a physician who does take care of “sleepy” teens and a mother of a sleepy teen I would like to respond to Mr. Fuller’s flippant attitude towards the medical … more
Women on march again this weekend at State House
By MERI R. KENNEDY Seven thousand Rhode Islanders made history as part of the worldwide movement known as the Women's March on Washington last January. That was just the beginning. This year, on Jan. 20, they will be on the march again on the South Lawn more
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4th graders make the laws now
By THOMAS GREENBERG A vote was taken on the House floor last Friday on a bill proposing that every city and town in the state have a fully functioning homeless shelter open to all homeless people 24/7. It passed 24-17. Alas, it was only a mock vote - and more
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Traffic plan key to further Sockanosset development
By THOMAS GREENBERG The Chapel View-Garden City-Sockanosset area of Cranston is already heavily developed, but is still a work in progress, especially at the Fountains at Chapel View 22.4 acre site that is essentially a blank slate right now. City more
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'We shall overcome' is response to President's slam on Haitian
By JEN COWART Haitian community leaders, politicians and dignitaries from across the state gathered at Dorcas International's North Campus on Elmwood Avenue Sunday to rebuke the ugliness and inappropriate nature of the words and sentiments shared by more
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