Mt. Hope students mingle in an artist Anthony Quinn’s world
By Eric Dickervitz edickervitz@eastbaynewspapers.com Katherine Quinn gives students a rare perspective on creativity Mt. Hope High School art student Nicole Cloutier stopped on a stairway during a recent field trip to admire an interesting stone formation. Noticing the change in texture of the stone’s surface, from smooth where years of rushing water rounded its edges, to [...]
Read More →Holy Ghost Feast begins three weeks of celebration
By Eric Dickervitz eastbaynewspapers.com Olivia Germano and Mary Angel Coelho are friends, fellow parishioners of St. Elizabeth’s Church, and for the past year they’ve held a special honor – mordomos of the Holy Ghost Feast. As they sat beneath the music tent set up on the parish grounds last Friday, draped across each of the women [...]
Read More →Pay raises for BCWA management
Seven members of the Bristol County Water Authority’s eight-member management team recently received pay raises ranging from 2 to 13.7 percent. The raises, which will cost the BCWA a total of $35,000 this coming fiscal year, were approved by the board of directors in April. The hikes are unrelated to pay adjustments given to the [...]
Read More →U.S. Coast Guard Chief Gregg Marsili named Bristol harbormaster
After over two hours of deliberation, the Bristol town council named Gregg Marsili, a 20 year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, to serve as Bristol’s next harbormaster. Mr. Marsili currently serves as the officer in charge at the Aids to Navigation station in Bristol. Over the course of several months, a search committee narrowed [...]
Read More →Hummel Report shines spotlight on Bristol harbormaster’s office
Jim Hummel of The Hummel Report has posted a video story focusing on the Bristol Harbormaster’s office, complaints about former Harbormaster Joe Cabral’s response to a near-drowning last summer, and the search for a new town harbormaster. The story went live a few hours before the Bristol Town Council is expected to hire a new harbormaster – [...]
Read More →Block announces candidacy for Rhode Island governor
PROVIDENCE — In a press release issued Tuesday morning, May 21, East Bay resident and entrepreneur Ken Block, who founded the Moderate Party of Rhode Island and ran as its candidate for Governor in 2010, announced he is running for Governor and forming a finance committee. Mr. Block, of Barrington and who has spent the [...]
Read More →Raimondo encourages student candidates to run for office
Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo was in Bristol Monday, May 20, kicking off the Colt Andrews elementary school’s campaign season and encouraging students to run for student government. A “Campaign School” will be held in early June, geared toward helping members of the Student Government who are interested in running for a leadership role [...]
Read More →Barrymore memorabilia exhibit in Bristol
Linden Place Museum is once again hosting “Junk from the Trunk”, a rotating exhibit of DeWolf and Colt family memorabilia, throughout the museum’s 2013 tour season. Currently, Linden Place is offering an encore presentation of its exhibit “Star Quality”, featuring photographs and theater memorabilia from Ethel Barrymore’s early days in theater and those of her brothers [...]
Read More →East Bay Newspapers and Chatter Group announce partnership
East Bay Newspapers and The Chatter Group have formed a partnership that brings a leader in digital and social media marketing under the newspaper company’s umbrella. Kirsten DiChiappari, founder of The Chatter Group consulting business, is now managing director of One Bradford, the graphic design, new media and special services division of East Bay Newspapers. [...]
Read More →RWU Visual Arts Senior Show
Graduating visual arts majors will display their creative works in textile sculpture, animation, photography, sound performance and video art in a professional exhibition in the gallery of the Architecture building. The show is open to the public. Where: Roger Williams University, Architecture Exhibition Gallery, One Old Ferry Road When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, [...]
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