A Tiverton man facing a child sex crime admitted in court last week that he enticed and brought a 13-year-old girl with him from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island for the purposes of sex nearly three …
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By Ted Hayes
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4/2/24
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PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School varsity baseball team started its season in fine fashion Monday, winning a home opener against Mt. Hope by a score of 8-3.
The Patriots …
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4/2/24
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Providence Country Day School has named the students who have earned recognition on the 2023-2024 second trimester honor roll.
For Middle School (Classes of 2027-2030), High Honors is all grades …
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3/29/24
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Monday, March 18
A report of a suspicious person on Alan Street came in at 3:27 p.m.
A caller reported debris on Route 24 at 4:03 p.m.
A White Tail Lane resident reported trespassing …
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3/28/24
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MIDDLETOWN — The body of Portsmouth teen Owen B. Cameron, who was last seen Saturday night after leaving his Middletown job, was discovered late this morning in that town.
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3/27/24
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One Friday evening earlier this month, Tiverton High School senior Lyla Staskiewicz looked around the school cafeteria, which had been transformed that day into a festive venue for the 2024 Rhode …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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3/27/24
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Six days after a quahogger’s boat flipped in the Westport River’s West Branch, friends of the owner managed to right it, pump it out and tow it south to Westport Point Wednesday morning.
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By Ted Hayes
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3/27/24
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Here’s a scenario one could imagine quite easily here in this little corner of the world … The owner of a small boat invites friends for a day out on the water, fishing, eating and laughing. At some point during the day, the captain slumps over in some sort of distress, possibly a heart attack.
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By Scott Pickering
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3/27/24
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PORTSMOUTH — Team Madagascar triumphed over Team Canada in the Portsmouth High School 2024 International Volleyball championship match held march 15 in the old gym.
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3/26/24
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Tiverton Town Council members harshly criticized the school committee and the superintendent of schools Monday night for what they said were ill-considered fiscal decisions, including a pattern of …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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3/26/24
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In an incredibly rare event, the New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast earlier this month. This is a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for …
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3/26/24
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Who’s going to tell them?
Time for fisticuffs!
Those are a few responses posted locally on Facebook this past week, after the Irish Star newspaper published a story just after the …
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3/25/24
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Monday, March 18
A report of a suspicious person on Alan Street came in at 3:27 p.m.
A caller reported debris on Route 24 at 4:03 p.m.
A White Tail Lane resident reported trespassing …
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3/25/24
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EAST PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is informing motorists as part of it ongoing effort to alleviate the intense congestion on the Washington Bridge since the …
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By Mike Rego
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3/25/24
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It will be at least another two months before a controversial plan to develop a live-in school for teens with substance abuse issues gets another hearing before the town.
For the third time …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/22/24
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Suspended Tiverton police officer Jacob Rapoza will learn his fate late next month, following the conclusion of his trial Wednesday.
Rapoza, the former school resource officer at Tiverton High …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/21/24
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The names of five local hockey greats who represent the RI Hockey Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024 were unveiled recently between periods of the Providence Bruins-Hershey Bears …
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3/20/24
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One week after school officials proposed closing the Fort Barton Elementary School to save money, more than 150 parents and other concerned citizens, many of them angry, crowded into the high school …
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By Ruth Rasmussen
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3/20/24
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PROVIDENCE — Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg promised the federal government would do all it could to help assist and expedite the process of replacing the westbound side of the …
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By Mike Rego
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3/19/24
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The Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), an initiative of the Department of Environmental Management (DEM), along with the Office of Healthy Aging (OHA) and Farm Fresh RI, is being …
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By Christy Nadalin
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3/19/24
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This year’s Grand Marshals, long-time Little Compton teachers Diane and David MacGregor, drew some of the loudest cheers as the parade worked its way east on Main Road. Later in the day, during …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/18/24
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There were plenty of smiles to be had at Sunday’s World’s Shortest St. Paddy’s Day parade in Adamsville, but few as wide as Caroline Wilkie Wordell’s.
Occupying spot 39A …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/18/24
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The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is informing users of the East Bay Bike Path that a 1.5 mile stretch of the path in Riverside, starting from the Squantum Association …
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3/18/24
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PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School Drama Club is bringing a classic of American drama to the stage starting this Thursday, March 21.
“A Streetcar Named Desire,” …
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3/18/24
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2024 is the year the World’s Shortest St. Paddy’s Day parade got big.
Thousands of people crowded into Little Compton Sunday for the third annual parade, started as a joke in 2022 by …
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By Ted Hayes
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3/17/24
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