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Late change in state budget may cause $200,000 deficit for Burrillville schools
BURRILLVILLE – Weeks after the School Department’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year was finalized, Supt. Michael Sollitto has learned that the district will have to pay out an additional $200,000 to fund rate changes to the state retirement system. The last minute expense means the district has...
Rhode Island punches its ticket to the Little League Softball World Series
BRISTOL, Conn. — The girls from Cranston Western are going to the World Series. Rhode Island’s Little League Softball all-stars, simply put, are the best in New England. A rout of Connecticut in their regional opener was not to be outdone by a curtain-call shutout against Maine. And a comeback win against Massachusetts had the 11- and 12-year-old all-stars one triumph away from the World Series in Greenville, North Carolina. ...
Storm system developing this weekend to smack New England coast with whipping winds, gnarly waves
The FOX Forecast Center is monitoring the evolution of an upper-level low off the mid-Atlantic, which is expected to approach the coast of New England during the early workweek, increasing the chances of unpleasant beach weather.
RIDEM says West Nile Virus found in mosquito sample
PAWTUCKET, Mass. (WLNE) — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said that the first positive case of West Nile Virus was found in a mosquito sample in the state. The sample was collected in Pawtucket on July 15, and no cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis were found in...
Maine & Rhode Island Artists Receive 2024 Rebecca Blunk Fund Awards
(Boston, MA) The New England Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce the 2024 awardees of the Rebecca Blunk Fund: Shey Rivera Rios of Providence, RI, and Sarah Sockbeson of Kingfield, ME. Each recipient receives $5,000 in unrestricted funding. In 2014, NEFA established The Rebecca Blunk Fund in memory...
To decarbonize, New England is betting big on offshore wind. Can it deliver?
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Dozens of hard hats and yellow safety vests were neatly placed on folding chairs. A giant American flag hung from the rafters of a hangar-sized fabrication building. And cellophane-wrapped cookies with blue icing spelling out “Revolution Wind, powered by Ørsted and Eversource,” added the final celebratory touch. After a rough year for...
Rhode Island sales price for a single-family home breaks record
Looking for a bargain? The cost of a condo was 6.36 percent less than it was in June 2023. The median sales price for a single-family home in Rhode Island hit a new high of $494,000 in June, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors reported Monday. That’s 11.6 percent higher...
The weekend: Karaoke contest, PVD Food Trucks & Halloween party among 45 things to do in northern RI
Northern RI –Maybe the real question is: what isn’t happening in northern Rhode Island this weekend?. Welcome to The Weekend, northern Rhode Island, your weekly guide to local happenings, all in our three-town radius of Burrillville, North Smithfield and Glocester. This week, you can hit the beach Friday...
Consumer Warning: Boar's Head deli meat recalled in RI over risk of Listeria contamination
Boar’s Head Provisions Co. is recalling all of its liverwurst products because they may be contaminated withListeria monocytogenes, according to the Rhode Island Department of Health. The company is also recalling other deli meat products, including some ham, salami and bologna, that were produced on the same line and on the same day as the liverwurst, the Health Department said. ...
Johnston man sentenced in plot to attack energy grid
A 25-year-old Johnston man was one of three people sentenced to federal prison in a plot to attack the nation's energy grid. Liam Collins was sentenced to 10 years for weapons charges related to the scheme. Two others -- Paul James Kryscuk of Idaho and Justin Wade Hermanson of North...
Babin receives national Innovation Award from APSE
The Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council has announced that Chepachet resident Sue Babin, director of the R.I. Self Employment Business Incubator Project, was awarded the 2024 David Hammis Employment Innovation Award at the national Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) Conference, held this June in North Carolina. Erica Belois-Pacer,...
RI's housing market is booming like never before
Good morning, I'm Will Richmond at The Providence Journal and this is the Daily Briefing. If you have friends or family trying to buy a house in Rhode Island recently there's a good chance your jaw dropped hearing their stories. Bids tens of thousands over asking price – if not more – being rejected....
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