Protesters’ lobster boat stops Brayton Point coal shipment
SOMERSET — For nearly six hours last Wednesday afternoon, a 32-foot former lobster boat, flying an American flag and carrying a sign on its cabin that declared “#coal is stupid,” stood at anchor alongside the pier at Brayton Point Energy Terminal, and won a stare-down with a 688 foot cargo vessel over 20 times its [...]
Read More →Big fishing talks slated between Tiverton, DEM officials
TIVERTON — Fishing tournaments and the drinking water quality of Stafford Pond will be among the topics discussed at a high level meeting Wednesday, May 15 at 9 a.m. in the headquarters of the Department of Environmental Management (DEM). That is when DEM Director Janet Coit, and her Associate Director for Natural Resources Catherine Sparks, [...]
Read More →Multiple crashes jam Route 24 south near Sakonnet River Bridge
TIVERTON — Numerous accidents about 10 a.m. Monday morning are being reported by officials on southbound Route 24 near the Fish Road exit, and south towards the on-ramp to the Sakonnet River Bridge. Police are advising drivers to avoid the area if at all possible. Tiverton Police Captain Patrick Jones said no injuries have been [...]
Read More →Three Tiverton department heads get new contracts
TIVERTON — The Town Council at its most recent meeting last week unanimously handed three Tiverton department heads — the chief of police, the senior center director, and the tax assessor — renewed three-year contracts of employment. All three contracts were largely based on a “model contract” approved recently by the council, which attempted to [...]
Read More →Waters ponding in Tiverton school parking lot to get drained
TIVERTON — Water that has ponded many inches deep in the parking lot behind Pocasset Elementary School during rainy weather should soon be gone, thanks to action last Monday night by the Town Council. After ground testing last week established that there is no ledge or rock that would interfere with plans to install an [...]
Read More →Sakonnet Point culvert going in, after five years of red tape
LITTLE COMPTON — After five years of planning and permitting, workers began the installation early last week of a new culvert under Sakonnet Point Road (Route 77), near the tip of the Point, about 200 feet from where the road ends and the ocean begins. The $235,000 project is supported by 80 percent federal funds [...]
Read More →DEM threatens Tiverton with lawsuit about fishing tourneys
TIVERTON — The Town Council Monday night postponed until May 28 consideration of a proposed town ordinance that would regulate fishing tournaments taking place on Stafford Pond. Technically, the council continued until that date, a public hearing that it had began on the the measure at Monday night’s meeting. A second ordinance — one that [...]
Read More →Little Compton police: mailboxes hit; hunt on for red car
Wednesday, April 17 At 5:05 p.m., officers responded to a call from a Long Highway resident that a groups of mail boxes had been struck by a red car, but were unable to locate a vehicle with passenger side front end damage. Tuesday, April 16 After a report at 7:40 p.m. of an erratic driver [...]
Read More →Tiverton police: driver rear-ends parked car, faces DUI, heroin charges
Wednesday, April 17 After rear-ending a parked car on north Main Road at 6:19 p.m., Matthew Ceiley, 27, of Middletown, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, and with possession, and with driving while in possession, of a scheduled drug (heroin). Thursday, April 18 William H. Cheetham, 41, of 34 Songbird Lane, Tiverton, [...]
Read More →Little Compton budget faces slight increase
LITTLE COMPTON — With less than 30 days remaining before voters in Little Compton gather in the Wilbur & McMahon school gymnasium for the annual Financial Town Meeting (FTM) on Tuesday, May 21, high profile issues in the town budget for next fiscal year boil down to only a few in number. That’s the word [...]
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