07/06/11 A 16-year-old girl is recovering at Rhode Island Hospital after a day of fun takes a frightening turn. The victim hit her head as she was jumping into a river and was saved by bystanders.
07/04/11 North Adams, Mass. - Cameron Copping (Buffalo) allowed just two hits over seven innings with eight strikeouts and a walk Monday as the North Adams SteepleCats downed the Mystic Schooners, 3-0, in a
07/02/11 WARWICK - Westerly National's 11-12 Little League softball All-Stars advanced to the championship round of the District 3 tournament with a 2-0 win against Warwick West Side on Saturday.
07/01/11 MYSTIC - Waterford North scored two runs in the top of the sixth inning Friday to snap a tie and defeat Pawcatuck/North Stonington's 9-10 Little League All-Star softball team 15-13 in the District 10
06/15/11 Westerly - The president of the Greater Westerly-Pawcatuck Area Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday that the chamber's foundation would "welcome the opportunity" to distribute funds amassed by the
06/03/11 Switch problems caused by bad weather have delayed Northeast Regional Train No. 170, which ordinarily reaches Westerly Station at about 11:30 a.m. on its way north. The 170 makes no scheduled stops in Westerly, but Bob Allard often steps onto the platform to watch it speed by. He enjoys the intense sound and suddenly shocked air, a sensation unlike any other.
05/29/11 Memorial Day will be celebrated Monday, and the following events, in chronological order, are scheduled:
05/28/11 Westerly - The town could take control of about $69,000 in funds still in the hands of the Westerly-Pawcatuck Joint Development Task Force next month, Town Manager Steven T. Hartford said Friday.An
04/23/11 By Chariho Staff SRI Logo.jpg PROVIDENCE -- Each year four outstanding community conservation projects are recognized statewide as Sen. John Chafee Conservation Leadership Projects. These projects are undertaken and completed by local leaders and provide significant benefits to the community and to the state. This year 25 applications were received, only four of them will receive Sen. John ...
04/22/11 SOUTH KINGSTOWN - A newly formed Rhode Island business partnership banks on New Englanders' fondness for the familiar, returning a respected regional brand name to the marketplace.
04/21/11 Authorities must thoroughly and aggressively investigate disturbing reports about the finances of the Westerly-Pawcatuck Joint Development Task Force - an organization believed to be defunct but that
04/21/11 Rhode Island State Police are investigating a crash on Route 146 in Lincoln. Officers tell Eyewitness News a car was traveling northbound near Wilbur Road around 1:30 am Thursday when it struck another car.
04/21/11 Westerly - Directors of the Westerly-Pawcatuck Joint Development Task Force will submit the beleaguered nonprofit's finances to an independent audit, the vice president/treasurer of the task force's
04/21/11 Richard M. Scibelli stood inside a vacant manufacturing building Wednesday morning, welcomed by those who helped make possible the Connecticut high-tech battery maker's upcoming move to Rhode Island.
04/20/11 The relocation of Yardney Technical Products, Inc. from Pawcatuck, Conn. to East Greenwich, R.I. will bring at least 165 manufacturing jobs to the Ocean State.
04/06/11 Yawn. I should begin with a confession: I never liked Bess Eaton coffee. When the chain of doughnut shops went bankrupt back in 2004, I thought: Well, the world will survive OK with less bad coffee.
03/27/11 Most of the time, David E. Chopy and the one other Department of Environmental Management employee involved in the state's dam-safety program are assessing the condition of the state's 671 known dams, imagining the "what-ifs" should one of them fail. During the deluge of March 2010, "what if" became "when."
03/27/11 Hopkinton, R.I. - Kathy Palmer remembers the loud rumbling, then the wall of water sweeping over the small farm where she and her family have lived for the last 50 years."It was like a tidal wave,"
03/27/11 A year ago this week, record rainfalls and overflowing rivers temporarily transformed this region into a strange, watery world.From the Eightmile River in Lyme to the Yantic in Norwich, the Quinebaug
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