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Three Tiverton department heads get new contracts

By   /  April 29, 2013  /  Government & Politics  /  No Comments

TIVERTON — The Town Council at its most recent meeting last week unanimously handed three Tiverton department heads — the chief of police, the senior center director, and the tax assessor — renewed three-year contracts of employment. All three contracts were largely based on a “model contract” approved recently by the council, which attempted to [...]

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Massive development proposed for Tiverton; includes hotel, retail, restaurants

By   /  April 18, 2013  /  Business, News, Real Estate  /  1 Comment

The Carpionato Group proposes 18 buildings — a hotel, restaurants, offices, residences, and retail — constructed between Fish and Main Roads, and Souza Road and Route 24.

TIVERTON — What could well be the largest commercial development undertaking in Tiverton’s history will be previewed Monday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in Town Hall. That’s when the project called “Tiverton Crossings,” being proposed by the Carpionato Group will go before a special joint workshop meeting of the Tiverton Town Council and the Tiverton Planning [...]

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Tiverton takes Site Ready to court

By   /  February 26, 2013  /  Government & Politics  /  No Comments

Weigh station at Site Ready

TIVERTON — The Town of Tiverton filed a lawsuit Monday in Newport County Superior Court against Site Ready Company on Eagleville Road, seeking to permanently stop and penalize what it says are violations of town zoning ordinances. Site Ready’s conduct, the town claims, “constitutes a threat to public health, safety, and the general welfare of [...]

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Issues delay final sale of Tiverton’s Nonquit School

By   /  February 22, 2013  /  News, Schools  /  1 Comment

Nonquit School, official Tiverton tax assessor photo.

TIVERTON — Closing documents for the sale of the town ‘s six-acre Nonquit School property, pending since December 10, will remain unsigned for a while longer as a result of recent Town Council action. On Feb. 11 the council granted an extension  — to 4:30 p.m. on March 14 — to Cynthia Hanssen, the would-be [...]

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Tiverton’s Site Ready becomes Fall River’s dumping ground

By   /  January 14, 2013  /  Government & Politics  /  No Comments

TIVERTON — The City of Fall River is now trucking all its yard waste and all its single stream recycling materials to Site Ready, located at 322 Eagleville Road. This news comes at a time when the Tiverton Planning Board is considering a Master Plan Application from Site Ready “to increase the recycling capabilities” of [...]

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Holy Trinity celebrates 300th with banquet Saturday

By   /  September 17, 2012  /  Celebrations, News, Things to Do  /  No Comments

Fr. John Higginbotham conducts a service in Holy Trinity in Jan. 2012 at the beginning of the church's 300th anniversary year

TIVERTON — Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Tiverton will celebrate its 300th anniversary with a banquet on Saturday, September 22, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Bishop Geralyn Wolf and her husband, Tom Bair, and Bishop-elect Nick Knisely will be among those attending. A portrait by Carolyn Hall of Holy Trinity’s founding priest, the Rev. Honyman from [...]

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