Hope sends East Providence boys’ cagers to playoff, season-ending loss
PROVIDENCE — Host and eighth-seeded Hope sent the East Providence High School boys’ basketball team to both a playoff and season-ending loss Monday night, Feb. 18, the Blue Wave handily defeating the ninth-seeded Townies 66-51 in the preliminary round of the Division I Championship Tournament. Hope never trailed after scoring the first six points of [...]
Read More →EPHS boys’ hoops heads to playoffs on a winning note
CRANSTON — The East Providence High School boys’ basketball team capped off its 2012-13 Division I-Central regular season Saturday night, Feb. 16, with a 44-35 victory over host Cranston East. The Townies finished their league slate with a 9-9 record, their best mark in three years. East Providence, which is also making its first postseason [...]
Read More →East Providence boys share seventh at state indoor track championship meet, locals place
PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ squad tallied 20 points to share seventh place while their female counterparts earned two during the 2013 State Indoor Track and Field Championship Meet held Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Providence Career & Tech Academy Field House. In the team competition, the Bishop Hendricken boys returned to [...]
Read More →Barrington woman arrested for making threats at East Providence High School
EAST PROVIDENCE — A Barrington resident with a history of incidents in the city turned herself into police Wednesday morning, Jan. 30, after she allegedly made a threat of gun violence at East Providence High School two days earlier. After a brief investigation, a warrant was issued Tuesday for Ms. Balcewicz’s arrest. She turned herself [...]
Read More →From Newtown tragedy, a conversation emerges nationally and locally in East Providence
EAST PROVIDENCE — Nervous. Edgy. Angry. Scared. Those are just some of the adjectives used and the emotions felt to describe the state of the country and here locally in East Providence in the days since the unspeakable tragedy of 20 young children being murdered in a Newtown, Conn. Elementary School. As if often the [...]
Read More →East Providence High hoopsters fall, hockey splits
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ basketball team fell to 0-2 on the young Division I season after the Townies suffered a 65-53 loss to host Coventry, Dec. 18. The Knotty Oakers held a comfortable 34-21 lead at intermission as they improved to 3-0 in the I-South ranks. Alex Hurley and Charlie [...]
Read More →East Providence Police issue statement on high school threat
EAST PROVIDENCE — East Providence Police Department Lt. Raymond Blinn issued a statement on the “Code Red” alert issued earlier Tuesday, Dec. 18, at East Providence High School. The statement reads: “East Providence High School officials and the School Resource Officer (SRO) were alerted by a student to a suspicious incident that the student witnessed. [...]
Read More →Kilmartin, Lewis talk to East Providence High students about dangers of texting and driving
EAST PROVIDENCE — Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) brought attention to the dangers of texting and driving with an awareness tour that visited East Providence High School Monday morning, Dec. 17. Joined by RIDOT Director Michael Lewis, Regional Vice President for AT&T in Rhode David Mancuso, East [...]
Read More →East Providence High sports complete first week of winter season
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School winter sports teams are wrapping up their first full week of the 2012-13 season, including the reigning Division III hockey champion Townies. The EPHS skaters got the regular season underway last weekend with a split of their first two D-III league outings. The Townies dropped a 7-1 [...]
Read More →East Providence drops boys’ indoor track openers
PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ indoor track and field team opened up its 2012-13 Metropolitan Division regular season meet slate with close losses to perennial powers LaSalle and Barrington Monday night, Dec. 10, at the Providence Career & Tech Academy Field House. The rival Rams beat the Townies by the score of [...]
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