Bird Club celebrates 50th with raptors
The Paskamanasett Bird Club will commemorate its 50th anniversary on Sunday, May 19, with a display of avian raptors – hawks, falcons, eagles and owls. The presentation is free, and all are welcome. It will be held at the South Dartmouth YMCA, 276 Gulf Road, Dartmouth, at 2 p.m. Jonathan Wood’s Raptor Project provides an [...]
Read More →Musica Maris performing in Little Compton
Musica Maris, a series of music of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, with period musical instruments, presents “Sturm und Drang.” Michael Bahmann will present a program of Beethoven sonatas on fortepiano. Mr. Bahmann, music director and organist at United Congregational Church, has performed extensively in the United States and Europe. He is equally at [...]
Read More →Bioreserve Big Walk set for Saturday, May 4
On Saturday, May 4, at 9 a.m. the Bioreserve Partners invite hikers to join them at the Freetown/Fall River State Forest Headquarters on Slab Bridge Road in Assonet for the annual Bioreserve Big Walk. The 12-mile hike spans entire length of the Bioreserve but pick-ups are available every 3 to 4 miles for those who [...]
Read More →East Bay throng pleads for stop to toll plan
By Bruce Burdett East Bay residents by the busload returned to the State House Thursday to voice their fear and fury over plans to toll the Sakonnet River Bridge. Although over 200 people showed up for an afternoon House hearing, most had to watch from afar as the small finance committee room had a strictly [...]
Read More →Over the house, off the tree — swish!
From high up in the maple tree, one hand, swish. Back yard, two-hander over the garage, through the hoop. Attic window, off angled chimney face, nothing but net. These unlikely shots and plenty more are featured on a pair of YouTube videos — Tullson Trick Shots 1 and 2. Both are the work of Little [...]
Read More →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 →Little Compton police: mailboxes hit; hunt on for red car
Wednesday, April 17 At 5:05 p.m., officers responded to a call from a Long Highway resident that a groups of mail boxes had been struck by a red car, but were unable to locate a vehicle with passenger side front end damage. Tuesday, April 16 After a report at 7:40 p.m. of an erratic driver [...]
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 →Feds give state green light for bridge toll
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today announced that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has approved the addition of all-electronic toll collection for the new Sakonnet Bridge. In that ruling, the FHWA “concurs with RIDOT’s Final Environmental Impact Statement that the imposition of tolls on the bridge does not create any new significant environmental [...]
Read More →Survey: Half of Portsmouth High seniors have smoked pot
PORTSMOUTH — The rise of medicinal marijuana centers and the recent decriminalization of the drug were cited as potential reasons Tuesday night for why so many high school students admit to smoking pot in a substance abuse survey presented to the School Committee. According to the report, prepared by John Mattson Consulting for the Portsmouth Prevention [...]
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