A Providence elementary school introduces a new initiative that focuses on school absences and aims to get children, who walk to school, there and on time. It’s the end of another school day at the Mary Fogarty Elementary School in South Providence and hundreds of kids scatter in different directions. Some take a bus home, […]
Every school day, just after 8 o’clock, Gail Johnson leaves for her job as a crossing guard for the city of Warwick in her 2005 silver Cadillac with Rhode Island license plate XX-999. Johnson’s son, Joshua Brayman, is out the door most days well before his mom. He drives to work in Providence. His vehicle? […]
As we head into 2014, the Hummel Report has updates on a handful of investigations from 2013 – and in one case an investigation from 2010. A Lot of Wind: We were there a year ago when the Narragansett Bay Commission turbines began spinning along the Providence waterfront at Fields Point. The commission says the […]
It’s taken seven years — and last month’s Hummel Report investigation — for the city of Providence to take two property owners to court after they consistently ignored violation notices and repeated orders to stop using land they own on the East Side for an illegal parking lot. Our investigation last month revealed the city […]
For neighbors living near two asphalt plants in Coventry, it is a steady drumbeat of sounds six days a week, eight months out of the year. The sound is of materials being delivered, asphalt being mixed and trucks hauling the finished product along a narrow residential road dozens of times every day. “It’s horrible. It’s […]
“With Ocean State [Soccer School], I thought it was such a great community that I was part of. I was allowed to develop that core group of people with whom I could grow from childhood into adulthood…” For the past three decades it has been a jewel in North Kingstown where boys and girls of […]
As one of the primary roads in and out of the city’s East Side, Gano Street sees thousands of cars every day using a ramp at the base of the road to Route 195. It is because of that heavy traffic that the Fox Point Neighborhood Association objected a decade ago when the owner of a residential lot […]
By 8 o’clock on a Saturday morning in September, the waves are slowly starting to build under crystal clear skies at Narragansett Town Beach. It’s a good omen for hundreds who will arrive shortly for a day of surfing. And while there are professional surfers here from California and Hawaii, the focus will be on […]
RI Road rising above the rest– literally From a distance, Route 3 looks like any other busy highway in Rhode Island as thousands of cars and trucks use it daily to make their way through the town of Coventry. But a closer look shows a raised asphalt divider between the turn lane onto Reservoir Road […]
As we round the corner toward the final few months of 2013, there are new developments on a handful of Hummel Report investigations. Fox and the Feds – Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox continues to be dogged by his work as a closing attorney for the Providence Economic Development Partnership – a controversial taxpayer-funded […]