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They were buried anonymously a century ago. Now their stories are part of a history lesson.
CRANSTON – They were poor, and some were mentally ill, but they will not be forgotten. Tucked behind the Rhode Island Training School lie some 1,049 headstones marked not with names but with numbers. They represent the indigent and the mentally ill people buried anonymously at the State Farm Cemetery Annex grounds from 1875 through the early 1900s, and they will now be part of the Training School’s curriculum. ...
Mass. State Lottery: $100,000 Mass Cash ticket sold at Swansea convenience store
A lucky Massachusetts State Lottery player won $100,000 Saturday after buying a winning Mass Cash ticket at a Swansea convenience store. The ticket — which won the game’s largest prize — was purchased for $1 at Swansea Mart on Wilbur Avenue. In Mass Cash, players choose five...
Rhode Island State Police make multiple arrests for outstanding warrants
WEST WARWICK — In a series of arrests, Rhode Island State Police took into custody individuals on outstanding warrants for various offenses, including driving with a suspended license and shoplifting. At 9:57 a.m., Angela Wilkinson, 48, of West Warwick, was arrested by troopers responding to the Rhode Island Traffic...
New Bedford Firefighters flagged down on way to emergency medical call for fire at 3-family home
“At 12:29pm Saturday afternoon, Engine Company 8 was responding to an emergency medical call when they were flagged down by tenants of 270 Nash Road who reported a fire inside their three-family home. The next closest fire company was immediately dispatched to cover Engine 8’s original call for service.
New Bedford fishing pier collapses, forces vessel relocation and equipment retrieval
Part of a New Bedford fishing pier collapsed Friday afternoon, according to police. Scott Carola, Asst. Deputy Chief and public information officer for the New Bedford police, said officers responded to the Eastern Fisheries Pier off Hervey Tichon Avenue at around 3:30 p.m. after the outer section collapsed. Four vessels...
Massachusetts, Rhode Island police bust six-year, $4 million jewel theft ring
Jovan Lemon, 29, Paul Lemon, 30, Steven Berdugo, 28, and Paul Miller, 46, all of Rhode Island, were indicted earlier this month in connection with 43 burglaries and break-ins across 25 towns in Massachusetts between July 2018 and March 2024.
Equipment to be recovered after pier collapse in New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — The New Bedford Police Department said that an effort will be made to recover equipment that was lost after a pier partially collapsed on Antonio L. Costa Avenue on April 26. The department said that the collapse of an outer section of the pier...
Changes in wastewater billing are overdue in RI | Opinion
Richard Burroughs teaches in the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. He has served as a member of the board of Save The Bay and as a commissioner for the Narragansett Bay Commission. The Providence Journal very correctly points out how the health of Narragansett Bay...
Striper Migration Report- April 26, 2024
In Week 5 of our 14-week Striper Migration Report series, OTW’s Assistant Editor, Matt Haeffner, checks in with Captain Brian Williams of Badfish Charters in Ocean City, NJ and Peter Jenkins, owner of The Saltwater Edge in Middletown, RI. Brian and Matt discuss where to begin the search for those larger migratory bass, how to target stripers on silversides and cinder worms, and the importance in being observative and stealthy while hunting for backwater stripers. Then, Peter and Matt run through the spring forage base of Rhode Island stripers, how to approach the cinder worm “hatch” and, looking ahead, knowing when to call it quits in the estuaries and salt ponds to find bigger bass in bigger water.
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