The East Providence School District has authored its process of contending with the partial solar eclipse that will envelop the area Monday, April 8, right around the time students in most buildings …
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By Mike Rego
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4/3/24
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One Saturday morning in 1983, when Riverside native, songwriter, singer, musician Joe Doyle was in his freshman year at Rhode Island College studying music, his dad, Ed Doyle (former mayor of …
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By Michael Khouri
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4/2/24
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For just the second time in the 91 seasons the Rhode Island Interscholastic League has sanctioned the sport, the East Providence High School baseball team starts a spring as a reigning champion, the …
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By Mike Rego
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4/2/24
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‘Enchantress of Numbers’ By Jennifer Chiaverini
Anyone who has taken a course in British literature will be familiar with the most lionized of Romantic poets, Geroge Gordon, Lord …
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By Donna Bruno
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4/2/24
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The spring migration run of striped bass will soon be underway. The water temperatures off Narragansett at press time was 41 degrees. Traditionally 55 degrees is the temperature when the fish are …
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By Capt. Dave Monti
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4/2/24
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STORY OF THE WEEK: Add Ken Block to the lengthy list of people who’ve told Donald Trump or his campaign that his fake narrative about a stolen election in 2020 is a lot of baloney. In …
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4/2/24
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As head coach Katie Solitro sees it the East Providence High School softball team enters the 2024 season not so much "rebuilding," but hopefully rather "reloading."
That's what happens when a …
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By Mike Rego
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4/1/24
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Residents of East Providence who suffered loss or damage from the severe storms December 17-19, 2023 or January 9-13, 2024, can meet with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency …
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4/1/24
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With the recitation of "Say Grace" by Emily Jungmin Yoon, Jennifer Shon, a junior at the Portsmouth Abbey School, won the 19th Rhode State Council on the Arts "Poetry Out Loud" competition held in …
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3/29/24
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Providence Country Day School has named the students who have earned recognition on the 2023-2024 second trimester honor roll.
For Middle School (Classes of 2027-2030), High Honors is all grades …
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3/29/24
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Dredging in the Sakonnet should be prevented and the attendant difficulties in bringing ashore the power cables returned to Massachusetts where they belong.
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3/28/24
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI): These ideas are anathema to white Christian nationalists who fear losing their “rightful place” and their power and authority in America. DEI …
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3/28/24
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MIDDLETOWN — The body of Portsmouth teen Owen B. Cameron, who was last seen Saturday night after leaving his Middletown job, was discovered late this morning in that town.
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3/27/24
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Sen. Sandra Cano and Rep. Jennifer Boylan, of Barrington, recently introduced legislation to ban synthetic polymer microparticles, which are better known as microplastics, from Rhode Island.
The …
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3/27/24
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FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will be in the Giles room at the Cranston Library at 140 Sockanosset Cross Rd, Cranston to meet with survivors of the Dec. 17-19, 2023, storms …
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3/27/24
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PROVIDENCE — The city will receive nearly a million dollars in federal grant money towards the continued renovation of the East Providence Police Department headquarters on Waterman Avenue.
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3/27/24
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Here’s a scenario one could imagine quite easily here in this little corner of the world … The owner of a small boat invites friends for a day out on the water, fishing, eating and laughing. At some point during the day, the captain slumps over in some sort of distress, possibly a heart attack.
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By Scott Pickering
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3/27/24
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In an incredibly rare event, the New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast earlier this month. This is a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for …
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3/26/24
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For those impatiently watching for new signs of life in the garden, the annual return of hummingbirds is one of the most eagerly anticipated springtime events. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in …
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By Cindy and Ed Moura
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3/26/24
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‘To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the American Experience’ By Bret Baier
A book steeped in history, “To Rescue the Constitution” traces the development …
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By Donna Bruno
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3/26/24
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Atlantic Herring numbers are down — way down. According to NOAA Fisheries, the stock is overfished. In 2022, overall commercial landings totaled 9.3 million pounds. By comparison, a decade …
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By Capt. Dave Monti
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3/26/24
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EAST PROVIDENCE — East Providence Police are continuing their investigation after the body of a man was pulled from the shore of the Providence River in city Thursday evening, March 21.
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By Mike Rego
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3/26/24
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EAST PROVIDENCE — The 2024 East Providence High School Unified Basketball League squad made its season debut recently at home against visiting Mt. Pleasant, the program now almost a decade old …
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By Mike Rego
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3/25/24
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EAST PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is informing motorists as part of it ongoing effort to alleviate the intense congestion on the Washington Bridge since the …
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By Mike Rego
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3/25/24
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