State budget talks may decide tolls’ fate
Matching bills aiming to eliminate tolls from the Sakonnet River Bridge are part of the discussion as the state House and Senate grapple with the coming year’s budget. “Since there are fiscal implications to getting rid of tolls, they (tolls) are part of the negotiations between the House and Senate finance chairs and leadership,” Senator [...]
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 →Farm conservation workshop is Thursday in Tiverton
TIVERTON — Are you an agricultural producer or a woodlot owner who has been curious about the potential of your land? Funding may be available for conservation practices on your farm or woodlot! The Rhode Island Conservation Districts have partnered with the USDA- Natural Resources Conservation Service to hold three workshops in May and June [...]
Read More →Community Center sponsors Sakonnet golf outing
LITTLE COMPTON — The Little Compton Community Center is sponsoring a golf outing at the Sakonnet Golf Club on Saturday, June 1, beginning at noon. This golf outing includes 18 holes of golf on the beautiful Sakonnet River, lunch, a dinner reception, musical entertainment, awards, and raffle prizes. Pricing options are $200 per golfer for the [...]
Read More →Letter: Little Compton sadly indifferent to the needs of seniors, children
To the editor: It is no secret that our students are now being housed in containers which viewed from any distance could be confused with storage pods except for the absence of the big letters on the outside of the real Pods. This situation was not brought about by a fire or other sudden unavoidable [...]
Read More →East Providence moves up in latest RITFCA outdoor track rankings
PROVIDENCE — The RITFCA released its second set of rankings for the 2013 outdoor season and Hendricken and LaSalle continue to top the polls. Hendricken posted 95 points and garnered five first-place ballots of the nine coaches who responded in the boys’ rankings. Of note locally, the Barrington girls ranked third and the boys fourth. [...]
Read More →Barbara J. Pond, 84, Little Compton
Loved writing, history; active in town groups Barbara J Pond, 84, of Little Compton, formerly of Glastonbury, Conn., passed away Friday, May 10, 2013. She was the daughter of the late Willard Brownell Jewell and Ann (Hennessey) Jewell. She is survived by her beloved husband Franklin ‘Pat’ Pond and her children Debra Pond of Wethersfield, [...]
Read More →Letter: Sakonnet car rally cancelled thanks to tolls
To the editor: In reading the RI-Taxpayers’ website about concerns that the tolls on the Sakonnet River Bridge will come to bear and the effect they will have on people using that bridge, tourism, regional traffic, etc., I can personally attest that that will be the case. I just officially canceled a portion of a tour [...]
Read More →Letter: Support our school at the Financial Town Meeting
To the editor: To the residents of Little Compton, As the May 21 Little Compton Financial Town Meeting nears, we at Little Compton Community First (LCCF) support the Budget Committee’s recommendation of the passage of the school budget for FY ’14. Despite the adverse conditions created by the school building project, our children at Wilbur [...]
Read More →Barrington bests the rest for girls’ Eastern Division outdoor track and field title
BARRINGTON ─ After a five-day delay due to weather, the Eastern Division Championship girls’ outdoor track and field championship meet, featuring 10 teams from around the East Bay, went off without a hitch Monday, May 13, at Barrington High School’s Victory Field. The host Eagles took the overall title with 166.33 points, while Portsmouth finished second [...]
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