It is full steam ahead for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, and by 2018 trucks entering the state can expect more than a dozen tolling gantries spread over five major highways across Rhode Island. The goal: to collect upward of $45 million a year and spend it on much-needed bridge repair. When the debate […]
Five years ago the Rhode Island Department of Transportation repaved part of Route 116 in Smithfield. The state told everyone living along Pleasant View Avenue — as it’s known locally — that the DOT would take down their mailboxes and the state would provide new ones, in part because new sidewalks were being laid. It […]
Frank O’Donnell has been a professional comedian for more than three decades, appearing in front of hundreds of audiences like one that gathered at Twin River on a Tuesday evening in March. Being on stage is a natural and comfortable place for O’Donnell. But this particular show — an annual event he’s done the past […]
Editor’s Note: Jim Hummel’s quarterly roundup provides new information and developments on previous Hummel Report investigations. One Man’s Junk: Last fall we told you about Lorraine LeClerc’s decades-long struggle to get dozen of junked cars cleared from her neighbor, Al Gaffney’s, property. In some cases the cars were just feet from her yard. The case has gone […]
It is 6:20 on a Tuesday morning and the Manzi family is already on the move. Stephanie Manzi, vice president of the Johnston Town Council, is driving her 16-year-old triplets to school and traffic is picking up on Route 6 heading east. Instead of making the 10-minute drive from their home to Johnston High School, […]
Providence is a city surrounded — and divided — by water. But if you actually want to get to the water, for boating or fishing or kayaking or maybe to take a long walk, there are only a handful of places to go. You have the popular India Point Park along Route 195, and the […]
In a remote section of Western Coventry the foundations for 10 wind turbines are taking shape. Three of them are projected to produce enough electricity to save the town of West Warwick, and its taxpayers, $40 million over the next 25 years. “We’ll be the first town in the state of Rhode Island — I […]
If you think you have a lot of wrapping to do around the holidays, all you have to do is watch as hundreds of volunteers gather over several weeks leading up to Christmas to wrap, assemble and distribute more than 10,000 gifts. The destination: foster children in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. Welcome to Bags […]
If you have to travel through Apponaug these days, you’re in for a challenge. For more than a year crews have been working on a $30 million project aimed at realigning what has traditionally been one of Rhode Island’s more difficult traffic patterns to navigate. Robert Cote lives five minutes from the Apponaug Circulator and […]
On a crisp autumn morning, dozens of people set out to make a statement that millions of others around the world make with them every year. By the end of this day more than 1,000 people will participate in a local Relay for Life event in Woonsocket to raise funds and awareness in the fight […]