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 →Letter: Expansion of tolls a dangerous precedent
To the editor: At a time when the need for long-term strategic economic development planning is the major topic of discussion by our state legislators, businesses and residents alike, it is difficult to understand how the expansion of tolls is consistent with any long-term vision of economic development or maintenance of our crumbling transportation infrastructure. [...]
Read More →Waters ponding in Tiverton school parking lot to get drained
TIVERTON — Water that has ponded many inches deep in the parking lot behind Pocasset Elementary School during rainy weather should soon be gone, thanks to action last Monday night by the Town Council. After ground testing last week established that there is no ledge or rock that would interfere with plans to install an [...]
Read More →DEM threatens Tiverton with lawsuit about fishing tourneys
TIVERTON — The Town Council Monday night postponed until May 28 consideration of a proposed town ordinance that would regulate fishing tournaments taking place on Stafford Pond. Technically, the council continued until that date, a public hearing that it had began on the the measure at Monday night’s meeting. A second ordinance — one that [...]
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 →Letter: Fishing tourneys, tolls: Maybe Tiverton, Little Compton should leave RI
To the editor: The state if Rhode Island, in its infinite wisdom, has purposely chosen that the preservation of the quality of drinking water from Stafford Pond is of little import. The rights of the non-resident fishermen are more important and profitable. Powerboats with gasoline and oil leaking into our drinking water are acceptable to [...]
Read More →Letter: Sakonnet toll really to pay for other bridges
To the editor: The following facts are in evidence to indicate the true purpose of the proposed Sakonnet Bridge toll: 1. Per DOT Director Lewis at the December 3 and 4 toll hearings, the intent is to obtain $19 million from the Sakonnet Bridge toll, and that $17 million of the $19 million (89.47%) from the [...]
Read More →Tiverton police: driver rear-ends parked car, faces DUI, heroin charges
Wednesday, April 17 After rear-ending a parked car on north Main Road at 6:19 p.m., Matthew Ceiley, 27, of Middletown, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, and with possession, and with driving while in possession, of a scheduled drug (heroin). Thursday, April 18 William H. Cheetham, 41, of 34 Songbird Lane, Tiverton, [...]
Read More →Portsmouth files suit to stop tolls
PORTSMOUTH — Its letters of protest ignored, the town has made good on its threat to pursue legal action to stop tolls from going in on the Sakonnet River Bridge. To cheers and applause from the audience, the Town Council Monday night voted unanimously to direct Town Solicitor Kevin Gavin to submit a complaint in [...]
Read More →Letter: Another big box plan not what Tiverton needs
To the editor: Here we go again. Another developer has come forth to “save the town” by creating a mixed-use mall with the pleasant-sounding name of “Tiverton Crossings.” There’s a 100-room hotel in back of a restaurant with conference center which abuts the Osborne-Bennett National Register Historic District, including one of the oldest houses in [...]
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