Portsmouth High deemed safe, classes resume Thursday
PORTSMOUTH — Less than four hours after a second bomb scare in three days forced an evacuation of students from Portsmouth High School, the building has been deemed safe and classes will resume Thursday morning. “We have been assured by Portsmouth Police and Portsmouth Fire and the state fire marshall that our building is safe [...]
Read More →Another bomb scare at Portsmouth High, students safe
PORTSMOUTH — The high school experienced another bomb scare today, but students have been safely evacuated. Supt. Lynn Krizic alerted parents to the news in a taped phone message just before 1:30 p.m.: “Portsmouth high school has begun an evacuation after another explosive device threat was found in the building. All students have been safely [...]
Read More →DEM announces plan for closure of TLA/Pond View plant in East Providence
PROVIDENCE – There’s no mistaking this latest news about the controversial TLA/Pond View recycling plant on Dexter Road in the Rumford section of East Providence. Its days as an active facility, for the time being at the very least, are now officially numbered. Late Thursday, May 9, 2013, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management [...]
Read More →East Providence’s Conley votes in majority for Senate’s same-sex marriage bill
PROVIDENCE — East Providence William J. Conley Jr. voted in the majority to support Rhode Island Senate Bill S38 Tuesday, April 23, helping to move the same-sex marriage piece of legislation out of the Judiciary Committee and to the floor for a vote of the entire upper body. Mr. Conley, in fact, voted for all [...]
Read More →Gallogly reinstates East Providence Budget Commission on personnel matters
EAST PROVIDENCE — In what is likely a not-so coincidental development, State Director of Revenue Rosemary Booth Gallogly Thursday, April 18, reinstated the Budget Commission’s authority over personnel matters in the City of East Providence. Mrs. Gallogly did so in response to a request from Budget Commission member and City Council President James Briden. “I [...]
Read More →Car crashes into Warren’s Square Peg
You can’t fit a square peg into a round hole, but apparently you can fit a car into The Square Peg. A 16-year-old Rumford girl learning how to drive with her father in the passenger seat lost control of her car Saturday afternoon and crashed into the rear of the The Square Peg restaurant at [...]
Read More →Multi-alarm blaze tears through home on Walnut Street in East Providence
EAST PROVIDENCE — A century-old home at the corner of Walnut and Cross Streets in East Providence burst into flames late Saturday night, March 2, leaving the structure likely beyond repair but with all those who take up residence in it safe. Video: walnut fire – Broadband According to neighbors and eyewitnesses, the fire broke [...]
Read More →Budget Commission sets exit date from East Providence
EAST PROVIDENCE — Mark down the date, March 28. The Budget Commission is leaving the City of East Providence. At its bi-weekly meeting Thursday, Feb. 28, the Commission set in motion its exit strategy to depart the city after 15 months in charge. Saying the “time has come” and in fact had already past by, [...]
Read More →Portsmouth woman fatally stabbed on RIPTA bus
PORTSMOUTH — A man who allegedly stabbed a local woman to death on a RIPTA bus Wednesday morning was arraigned in Second Division District Court in Newport later that afternoon. Christopher R. James, 46, of 207 Rhodes St., Providence, was charged with murder following the incident that took place shortly after 6 a.m. “He was arraigned [...]
Read More →Fire officials identify fatality in South Blossom Street East Providence fire
EAST PROVIDENCE — City resident Ronald Duarte, 68, died of injuries he suffered as a result of a fire at his residence on 106 South Blossom St. Thursday morning, Jan. 24. Acting East Providence Fire Department Chief and Fire Marshal Oscar Elmasian said Mr. Duarte was home alone at the time of the blaze, which [...]
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