Portsmouth students study solar power
PORTSMOUTH — Perhaps the town should have looked to the sun instead of the wind for a source of energy, a representative from a new renewable energy company told high school students Friday. Speaking to students inside a solar-powered truck parked just a short walk away from the town’s broken wind turbine, Jeffrey Flath said [...]
Read More →Grant to study Portsmouth man’s digital novel
PORTSMOUTH — A 20-year-old digital novel by Portsmouth science fiction writer John G. McDaid is among the works to be studied under a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant awarded to the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), the group announced recently. According to ELO, the NEH awarded a $52,000 digital humanities grant to explore and preserve [...]
Read More →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 →Portsmouth Abbey sailors capture New Englands
PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth Abbey’s sailing team won the New England Schools Sailing Association’s (NESSA) Team Racing Championships over the weekend, bringing home the Fritz Mark Trophy for the first time in the 39-year history of the event. The competition was held at the Hyannis Yacht Club in Massachusetts. The Ravens faced off against teams from seven [...]
Read More →Portsmouth Abbey boys win EIL baseball championship
PORTSMOUTH — The No. 3 seeded Portsmouth Abbey varsity baseball team avenged earlier losses this season to No. 2 Bancroft and No. 1 Berwick to win the 2013 Eastern Independent League (EIL) Championship, held at Pingree School in South Hamilton, Mass. on Saturday. The Ravens defeated Bancroft, 13-3, in the semifinal, pounding out 15 hits [...]
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 →Residents celebrate Portsmouth UK’s new mayor
PORTSMOUTH — Yesterday was the big day for the local contingent that’s visiting its sister city of Portsmouth, England. Several town officials and members of the Portsmouth 375th Steering Committee began the day at Portsmouth Guild Hall for the lord mayor “making” ceremony, a public event with several hundred people in attendance. “During this impressive hour-long [...]
Read More →The Seafare residences in Portsmouth
Aquidneck Island’s newest town home community is near completion, with a model home now open to view. Centrally located in Portsmouth, Rhode Island the thirty three Sea Fare Residences sit on an eight acre parcel and are conveniently located one short mile to Route 24, providing quick access to both Providence and Boston. These properties [...]
Read More →Portsmouth police: Man asleep at wheel was drunk
Here are some entries from the Portsmouth police log over the past week. Monday, May 13 Jay A. Catalan, 50, of 34 Hillside Road, was charged with driving while intoxicated (second offense) and refusal to submit to a chemical test, following an accident on East Main Road at Sprague Street at about 6 p.m. The [...]
Read More →Local delegation tours Portsmouth, UK
PORTSMOUTH — There must be a pub on every block in Portsmouth, says Doug Smith. That would be Portsmouth, England, where a contingent of local residents are visiting through Wednesday. Their common goal: To invite the port city’s future Lord Mayor designee, Lynn Stagg, back here to help the town celebrate its 375th anniversary Labor Day [...]
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