Warwick Public Library’s central branch was home to an unusual sigh last Wednesday: a miniature kitchen, complete with fresh ingredients and a blender. Rhode Island Community Food Bank was … more

Saturday couldn’t have been a better day for a tour of the city’s wastewater treatment plant – sewer plant as it is commonly referred to. It was sunny, hardly a breeze and cool, … more

By JOHN HOWELL Arguing that it complied fully with requested information and that legislation signed into law on July 9 contained no retroactive provisions, MedRecycler has appealed a Department of Environmental Management denial of a license to operate more

By NICHOLAS CAMPANELLA Any time you go to the dentist, emergency room, or bring your pet to the vet, that activity produces medical waste. To process the waste that we all generate, MedRecycler has proposed a safe, environmentally friendly way to handle more

By JOHN HOWELL Not until she learned of a proposal to operate a medical waste facility on Division Street in West Warwick did Denise Lopez hear of the word pyrolysis. Now, Lopez - who lives in East Greenwich about a quarter-mile away from 1600 Division more

By JIM MULLOWNEY The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management recently announced its intent to issue a license to MedRecycler to treat medical waste. My daughter is a life-long resident of Rhode Island and I have lived here for over 30 years. more

By JOHN HOWELL For nearly four hours Monday, area residents told the Department of Environmental Management they won't want, nor do they think Rhode Island should be the "guinea pig" for, a medical waste disposal operation that its proponents say is more

To the Editor: Once again, our community is being asked to welcome a neighbor we hardly even know. This time, it's a medical waste facility that would be built along Division Road bordering the towns of West Warwick and East Greenwich just across the more

With Governor Gina Raimondo's two week 'pause' in effect, combined with an increase of COVID-19 cases and related quarantining measures in City departments, Mayor Solomon is advising residents that yard waste pickup is presently delayed by four to five more

By JOHN HOWELL -- In a press release, the city administration cautioned that because one sanitation truck is out of commission there could be delays in collections. more