Jef’s posted some video shot during the middle of the storm. Striking in its serenity:
The lack of excitement might disappoint the PDD family — what with the sense that we came of age during our crack coverage of Plowgate 2007 — but having walked/driven/ridden/sledded much of the city [...]
Photo by Jef Nickerson
Greater Kennedy Plaza is having a Bank of America Skating Center photo contest.
Show us some fun at the Bank of America City Center and be entered to win a Season Pass!
Email us a [...]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The superintendent at the U.S. Naval Academy says the curriculum at the Navy's prep school in Rhode Island has undergone a major overhaul.
Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler tells the Navy Times that students at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, R.I., for the past two [...]
Jef’s reporting on the recent study by the Environmental Working Group which ranks our water second-best among large metro areas.
[...]SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Police have charged a man with domestic felony assault, saying he beat his girlfriend, Capt. Jeff S. Allen said on Monday.
Shane Patrick Sutherland, 33, of 37 Whitford St., Wakefield, was taken into custody Saturday and is to be arraigned Monday afternoon in Washington County District Court, [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Investigators from several communities were questioning a break-in suspect Monday after Narragansett police arrested him early in the morning.
Scott Gavitt, 28, of 31 Sykes St., Warwick, is charged with breaking into two gas stations in South Kingstown, according to Capt. Jeff S. Allen of the South [...]
I was walking over to Union Station Plaza the other night and heading there through the tunnel when I came upon this.
Crappy photo by Jef Nickerson
A pile of snow right in the walkway. I mean, come on! Seriously!? And I don’t think it is even snow, [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 17-year-old youth has changed his not-guilty plea and admitted that he shot and killed Jeffrey Lopez, 19, and wounded Carlos Javier, 19, as the victims stood on the front porch of Javier's house at 145 Camden Ave. on Smith Hill, in June 2008, it was announced [...]
Providence Mayor David Cicilline speaks at the event introducing the Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement Study. Photo by Jef Nickerson
David Cicilline, Mayor of Providence
Today, RIPTA released their long awaited Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An agreement hammered out between Daniel MacKenzie and the mortgage company that foreclosed upon his property, Bonniedale Farm in Glocester, will leave the animals in the hands of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Associate Justice Jeffrey A. Lanphear praised the attorneys [...]
Word is that the DRC will not be considering the 35 Weybosset Facade at this month’s meeting, the applicant, O’Connor Properties, has requested a postponement. The next time the DRC may consider [...]
Atwells Avenue | Photo by Jef Nickerson
Federal Hill Christmas Tree | Photo Jef Nickerson
First snow! Yay!
Above is the Federal Hill Christmas Tree [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Where there's smoke, there's ....
Just after midnight, firefighters on Engine 11 were riding back to the station after handling a rescue call when they caught the scent of something burning in the West End, said acting Battalion Chief Jeffrey Varone.
They rode around until they found the source [...]
The city has released their Waterfront Plan and accompanying website and blog.
I [...]
WARWICK, RI -- A one-block stretch of Jefferson Boulevard will be closed for three nights next week as construction on the intermodal facility linked to the airport continues.
City and T.F. Green Airport officials said that motorists should be advised that the Jefferson Boulevard from Kilvert Street to [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- An ambitious plan to build a hotel, parking garage and complex of buildings that will combine office and retail space on Jefferson Boulevard received final approval from the city Wednesday night.
The proposal, which is the vision of contractor Michael D'Ambra, got the green light from the' [...]
Roger Williams National Memorial Cultural Landscape Report
Available for Review and Comment and Notice of Public Meeting
In collaboration with the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation and the State University of [...]
