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Poll and public comments push back on speed cameras in Barrington

More than 80 percent of the people who responded to an online poll oppose the installation of speed cameras in Barrington.   East Bay Media Group, the parent company for the Barrington …
Barrington resident earns prestigious Scouting award
Barrington resident Marc Millspaugh recently received a prestigious award from the Narragansett Council Scouting America. … Read More
Barrington legislator proposing ‘Climate Superfund Act’
Sen. Linda L. Ujifusa and Rep. Jennifer Boylan are proposing a Climate Superfund Act for Rhode Island to take the burden off Rhode … Read More
Big bills, small answers, at RI Energy forum
A group of East Bay residents filled the Herreshoff Room at Rogers Free Library Monday evening hoping to answer one big question: Why … Read More
Sports
Barrington basketball team knocks off Hopkinton in finale
A team of Barrington seventh-graders celebrated a strong finish to the season recently.   The Barrington Boys Seventh Grade … Read More
Barrington High School wins cheer state championship
The Barrington High School cheer team captured the Division II State Championship last weekend.   The victory followed a third … Read More
Barrington resident will be inducted into hall of fame posthumously
Late Barrington resident Buster Clegg will be inducted into the RI Hockey Hall of Fame posthumously. Clegg, who helped co-found … Read More
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After a lull, sick raccoon sightings return in Barrington Sightings of sick and/or injured raccoons resumed in Barrington last week.   Barrington Police responded to dozens of reports of sick or injured raccoons throughout the fall season, and …
Barrington Police charge Cranston man in fund-raising scheme The Barrington Police Department has made an arrest in its investigation into an alleged fund-raising scheme that was tied to the local police union. On Friday, March 7, Barrington Police …
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Nicholas Nadalin Nicholas Dean Nadalin, 25, died Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Portland, Maine. Born in Providence in 1999, Nick was due on St. Patrick's Day but arrived nearly two weeks late, on March 29. His early yea
Mary Fuller Mary W. Fuller, born in Philadelphia, PA in 1931, passed away peacefully on January 22, 2025 at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction, CO. Mary was 93 years old. Mary was the first of two...

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A lifelong Portsmouth resident, Jim graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1982 and earned a journalism degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1986. He's worked two different stints at East Bay Newspapers, for a total of 18 years with the company so far. When not running all over town bringing you the news from Portsmouth, Jim listens to lots and lots and lots of music, watches obscure silent films from the '20s and usually has three books going at once. He also loves to cook crazy New Orleans dishes for his wife of 25 years, Michelle, and their two sons, Jake and Max.