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 →Lois McLaughlin, 76, Rumford
Lois McLaughlin, 76, formerly of Rumford, died Wednesday, April 3, 2013 in The Villages, Florida. Mrs. McLaughlin was born in Cairo, N.Y. and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was a long-time resident of Rumford, where she and her husband of 56 years, Joe, raised six children. The couple moved to The Villages in 2004. [...]
Read More →Hold the sauce; no chicken BBQ in Little Compton this year
LITTLE COMPTON — The chicken barbecue for this year is cancelled, Penny Walker, president of the Little Compton Village Improvement Society announced Monday. The Society is the group that sponsors the annual event. The barbecue was called off because of the presence of the modular classroom buildings, Ms. Walker said, and the fact that the [...]
Read More →Carlton Brownell: Little Compton bids farewell to its historian
LITTLE COMPTON — Carlton Coggeshall Brownell’s passing on Feb. 6, 2013, has become a part of Little Compton’s history. We asked a few of the many who knew him for a few Carlton Brownell memories (for much more about his many contributions to his hometown, see page 14) … • Beth Ryan, director of the [...]
Read More →Little Compton power nearly restored
LITTLE COMPTON — Fire Department Chief Rick Petrin said Monday morning that power has been restored to “most of the town,” and that only “a few isolated places” don’t have it. He said he would be conferring with National Grid representatives early Monday for a more complete run-down of Little Compton outages.
Read More →Sakonnet breakwater damaged, no money to fix it
LITTLE COMPTON — The federal breakwater at Sakonnet Harbor has been damaged by several years worth of storms, and the Army Corps of Engineers says there’s no money to fix it. Other priorities are competing for funds, The Corps says.”If you look at it over the years,” said Town Council President Robert Mushen, “the breakwater [...]
Read More →He didn’t run, but write-ins elect Anderson Little Compton moderator anyway
LITTLE COMPTON — By write-in votes, Larry Anderson is the newly elected Little Compton Town Moderator. He was sworn in on Thursday in Town Hall. No one chose to file as a candidate for Little Compton town moderator last July when it was time for office-seekers to declare their candidacies, so there was no name [...]
Read More →FEMA tours South Shore Beach, other hard-hit places
TIVERTON, LITTLE COMPTON — With power restored to all but a few Tiverton and Little Compton households by the end of last week, officials in the two communities turned to damage assessment. It wasn’t pretty. Hurricane Sandy reduced Little Compton’s South Shore Beach to cobble and rocks, and little or no sand. Just last spring, [...]
Read More →Little Compton beach officials unplug First Creek
LITTLE COMPTON — Anticipating record high tides, rain, and waves with the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy, Little Compton Beach Commission officials Sunday took a back hoe and cleared First Creek of sand and cobble, thus allowing water to flow more freely from Tuniper Pond across South Shore Beach to the ocean. The action was intended to lessen [...]
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