STORY OF THE WEEK: Back in the day, the approach of the end of February would signal the time for the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies – the bygone annual satiric sendup of the year in Rhode … more

She’s petite, bright eyed and energized. She’s the new sparkplug at the Warwick Board of Canvassers who is already nailing down polling locations for the Presidential Preference … more

She was waiting for a table at Smokey Bones on Route 2 in Warwick with her family, when a waitress ran up to her “freaking out” and excitedly hugging her.  The waitress then bent … more

Julia Paolino has been named Director of Arts at Bishop Hendricken High School. She becomes the third person to hold the position and the first female to lead the program. She succeeds Richard Sylvia … more

By ALEX MALM A couple of weeks ago there was a crack in the sidewalk at the Warwick Public Library. Jana Stevenson, Library Director got on the phone with the Department of Public Works and the … more

Jules D’Alessandro, a Warwick-based litigator, business, construction and personal injury attorney, has been named to the Rhode Island Advisory Council of the New England Legal Foundation … more

Thrive Behavioral Health has inducted James C. Alexander and Paul N. Council III into the organization's Board of Directors. Thrive's Board Members consist of 17 local business leaders and behavioral health consumers who advise and steer the more

Directs communications Kate MacDonald has been named Director of Communications at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Reporting to Chief Philanthropy Officer, Lisa Roth Blackman, MacDonald will drive the overall communications strategy for the Food more

By JOHN HOWELL Kerry Nardolillo loved getting mail. "I just loved getting mail. I was a mail person," she said from her new office in Warwick City Hall. How she got from opening mail to the city's director of elections is a story that starts in 2018. more

Trinity Repertory Company, the Tony Award-winning State Theater of Rhode Island, has announced that its executive director, Tom Parrish, will depart the organization on Oct. 15, after six years leading its financial turnaround, organizational more

Director at AdCare Outpatient Cheryl Raposa, MSW, LICSW, of Burrillville has joined AdCare Outpatient Services in Warwick as director.  Raposa brings … more

By DANIEL KITTREDGE Rhode Island is "e;doing well"e; in its distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations despite the challenges posed by a limited supply coming from the federal level, Department of Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott told members of the more

By JOHN HOWELL Jana Stevenson says when she starts a new position, she fully immerses herself. There's no thought of anything else. That's what happened when she was named deputy director of the Warwick Public Library eight years ago. Last Wednesday, the more