CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- All that rain has interfered with something else: The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council has canceled a free river tour that had been scheduled for Sunday because the Blackstone River is running too high and too fast.
Council President Robert Billington said that "safety is first and" [...]
ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- Three persons were killed and a fourth seriously injured in an accident on Route 95 early Saturday, the state police said.
The victims were among eight who died in four separate holiday weekend crashes, two of them with triple fatalities, in eastern Massachusetts.
In the Attleboro accident, the operator [...]
R.I. Department of Health officials have recommended re-opening Bristol Town Beach in Bristol and Goddard Memorial State Park in Warwick for swimming.
According to the agency, this recommendation is based on results from water samples that show bacteria levels within acceptable limits.
The following beaches are still closed: Barrington [...]
From The Page:
NY Daily News analysis says Palin's resignation is "dooming her presidential pipe dream."
Tough AP overnight lede: "Even for a nonconformist...Palin defies political logic with her sudden, stunning announcement to leave office..."
And don’t forget, many of your ancestors fall into that ‘wretched refuse’ category. The Cohans fled their teeming shore and enriched our culture permanently. (One Dose peacenik and inveterate sourball finds his songs too militaristic, but boy are they ever [...]
Attention Cox: my phone service went out on Thursday. Happily, my computer is still up and running so I thought it would be a very simple matter of going online to your website and clicking on ‘report a problem’ somewhere. [...]
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and [...]
The Golden Dragon is the new Chinese kitchen at the Beach House on Park Ave in Island Park, and after getting grand opening fliers in the Sakonnet Times, we tried it out tonight, and were not disappointed. While it's not really a sit-down kind of place — it is, after' [...]
Indiearts Fest seeks volunteers:
The second annual IndieArts Fest will take place in downtown Providence’s Kennedy Plaza from 1pm to 1am on Saturday, July 18. The Fest celebrates locally and independently produced art, music, performance, and handmade crafts. Highlights will include the Red Bull [...]
