Well it's beginning to feel a lot like springtime, everywhere you look! And that's a good thing. The Jamestown Senior Citizen's Association has put together a small, but helpful scholarship, in memory of the seniors who have passed on. More...

Whereas there soon will be a gradual reawakening of those sleeping signs of more gentle weather, likewise has there been a gradual reawakening of property owners, on Jamestown and elsewhere, as they read dark and foreboding letters from their insurance companies canceling their homeowners policies. More...

Since you published the story that the newly formed Jamestown Wind Power Committee has been invited to a conference for leaders, government officials and experts on wind energy, the venue has moved to Corless Auditorium at the University of Rhode Island Bay Campus and it is now open to the public. More...

Everybody seems to think that columnists are allowed to write whatever we want even if our material does not contain so much as a grain of truth. In other words, people feel that we just sit at our computers and lie for a living. A 9-year-old girl once said to me at a family gathering, "You have no credibility; you're a columnist. More...

Free bus ride to health fair in Newport The Jamestown Medical Fund is sponsoring free transportation to the Newport Hospital Health Fair, this Saturday, April 14, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A bus will make two trips to the fair from the parking lot at the Portuguese American Citizens' Club- at 8:30 a.m. and again at 9:30 a.m., with two return trips planned for later in the day. More...

The University of Rhode Island's library gallery will showcase, "25 Years of Dragonfly," a display of bookbinding restoration, which runs through April 26. The display features a collection of work by George and Pat Sargent, who have operated their full service hand bookbindery, Dragonfly, for 25 years. They specialize in antiquarian book and paper restoration and fine bindings. More...

Thursday April 12 Open Rec., Community Center, 3-5 p.m. Teen night, Community Center, 5:30-9 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, St. Matthew's church, 5:30 p.m. Yoga Flow with Kim Ferguson, 32 Pemberton Ave., 6-7 p.m. Family caregivers talk, library, 7 p.m. More...

Kudos to Boy Scout Troop 1's Zack Volpe who passed his Eagle Board of Review on March 22 and is now an Eagle Scout. The 18-year-old attends Landmark School in Beverly, Mass. He has been in scouting for nine years. Volpe hopes for a career in boat building and construction management. The new kayak rack at Ft. Getty is Zack's Eagle Scout project. More...

Walter Schroder, the wellknown historian and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Jamestown Historical Society, recently gave the JHS a Battery Mitchell sign from Fort Greble. Battery Mitchell was a 6-inch disappearing gun battery at the Dutch Island fort. More...

M. Marjorie Moran, 84, of Pemberton Avenue, died Sunday, April 8, 2007 at home. She was the wife of the late Arthur "Cliff" Moran. Born in Jamestown, she was a daughter of the late Frank and Mary (Serpa) Matoes. Mrs. Moran worked for several Jamestown businesses before retiring. She was a member of the Holy Ghost Society and a communicant of St. Mark Church. Mrs. More...

Dec. 1, 2006, Wayt sold to Johnstone, property at 40 Clarke St. for the sum of $640,000. Dec. 12, 2006, Mason sold to Fernwood, property at 27 Luther St. for the sum of $280,000. Dec. 12, 2006, Rosenberg sold to Rosenberg, property at 126 Highland Drive for the sum of $2,100,000. More...

TOWN OF JAMESTOWN ZONING BOARD OF REVIEW NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE JAMESTOWN ZONING BOARD OF REVIEW WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON APRIL 24, 2007, AT THE JAMESTOWN LIBRARY, 26 NORTH ROAD, JAMESTOWN, RHODE ISLAND AT 7:00 P.M. More...