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 →Warren gets $62,500 for bike path work
Warren will soon get $62,500 to make improvements to the East Bay Bike Path between Child and Franklin streets. The money was released by the state Department of Environmental Management (DEM) as part of its Trail Grant program. Statewide, $1.54 million in grants is being distributed under the program this year. Town Planner Caroline Wells [...]
Read More →Group hires lawyer to fight wetlands regs
A group of about a dozen Warren residents who believe the the town is going too far with changes to its wetlands ordinances have hired an attorney in hopes of blocking them. The group of 14 residents, led by former planning board member John Tattrie and Schoolhouse Road resident John Saviano, said they have hired [...]
Read More →More to menhaden vote than meets the eye
I spoke with Bob Ballou, assistant to the director of the R.I. Department of Environmental Management (DEM), and Rick Bellavance, president of the R.I. Party & Charter Boat Association, about the Dec. 14 Atlantic Slates Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) deliberations and votes on Amendment 2 concerning the management of Atlantic menhaden. Ballou and Bellavance, along [...]
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