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

In a complaint filed Tuesday in Superior Court, Debra J. Shatley, president of the Oakland Beach Real Estate Owners Association (OBREOA), claims that Ward 6 Councilwoman Donna Travis, her husband … more

All the members of the Warwick Land Trust support a plan that if successful would place a $15 million bond measure on the ballot next November. The bond measure would ask voters to approve the … more

Should the City of Warwick raise $15 million through a bond measure in order to purchase 459 acres of open space?  That's the question that the Warwick Land Trust hopes is on the ballot next … more

By JOHN HOWELL Last Wednesday night, the old Carvel Ice Cream building at the intersection of Airport and Post roads hadn't had as many people in it since the days it was The Office. This wasn't a bar crowd, although a few probably would have appreciated more

By JOHN HOWELL It's a neighborhood sandwiched between one of the city's busiest intersections, the airport and Amtrak. Yet Mayor Frank Picozzi was told Friday afternoon it can be extraordinarily quiet in the evenings. Area homeowners want to keep it that more

By ARDEN BASTIA The owner of the former Carvel building at the west end of Airport Road on Post Road was the only bidder for nearly an acre of vacant state land between Pell Avenue and Guilford Drive at an auction Tuesday at the property. David Corsetti more

By JOHN HOWELL Even today, many years after it closed, the circular building at the west end of Airport Road on Post Road is still known as Carvel. Since then, it has had other lives as Ozzi's burgers and later as the drinking establishment The Office. more