By JOHN HOWELL If the presidential preference primary was a scrimmage with a predicable outcome and the Sept. 8 state primary an intramural game, then the Nov. 3 general election is the Super Bowl for voting in the midst of a pandemic. Secretary of State more

By JACOB MARROCCO Mayor Joseph J. Solomon won't be following the lead of Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena when it comes to Warwick Police providing assistance to other municipalities. "e;I understand Joe's anger.I would never have officers not respond (to a more

LARCENY At approximately 8:18 a.m. on Sept. 7, Officer Nicholas DiNardo responded to a Helen Avenue home for a report of larceny from a motor vehicle overnight. At the scene, the reporting party told DiNardo that both his vehicle and his wife's vehicle more

By JOHN HOWELL After more than four hours of online deliberations by the City Council Finance Committee last Wednesday night, and with an untold number of Bayside residents waiting to weigh in on plans to bring sewers to the area, the meeting came to an more

The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is asking Rhode Islanders to monitor their beech trees for signs of leaf damage from Beach Leaf Disease (BLD). Early symptoms of BLD include dark striping on the tree's leaves parallel to the leaf veins more

Two financial services veterans in the Commercial Banking Division of Bank Rhode Island (BankRI) have received promotions. Scott Lajoie has been named Senior Vice President, and Joann Khamvongsa has been promoted to Assistant Vice President, Portfolio more

The Oakland Beach Association will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 6 pm, at the gazebo on the Commons. Guests will be Community Development Director Bill Facente and principal planner Lucas Murray. Project plans for the recently more

By JOHN HOWELL Two Warwick Democratic incumbents lost their bid to appear on the November in last Tuesday's primary, while surely in the most hotly contested seat in the city - Senate District 31 - progressive Democrat Kendra Anderson got out her vote to more

T.F. Green Airport and the Rhode Island Airport Corporation (RIAC) announced Wednesday a free, “pop-up drive-in movie,” in partnership with newportFILM’s summer and fall series of … more

The following is a digest of some of the comments read Tuesday night to the Warwick School Committee: Dear Members of the Warwick School Committee and Administration, The decisions that have been made by this committee regarding the opening of schools more

A new school year brings with it a renewed sense of hope, and, of course, that familiar first-day-of-school excitement. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Family Service of Rhode Island (FSRI) has officially launched a virtual Back to School drive that more