The New England Common Assessment Program this week released its results of the elementary and middle school statewide testing last fall, and Jamestown School students achieved scores well above the statewide average. More...
The Town Council last week interviewed seven individual lawyers or groups of lawyers who want to take over the consortium of attorneys serving as the Jamestown town solicitors for the last four years. Three applying for only part of the work were not interviewed. Town Solicitor J. William W. More...
The public libraries in Rhode Island purchased a database for library card holders in the state. At the Jamestown library, patrons can access this world of information by going to the library's homepage at www.jamestownri.com/library and clicking on the words "Magazine Index" in the column headed "... More...
How cold was it? The latest round of arctic air has frozen the island ponds - enough for an informal hockey game this past weekend, as pictured on page one. Old-timers will tell you, though, they can remember when it was really cold . . . It was a bitterly cold month of February in 1934. That's w... More...
Once again, it has been suggested that the highway barn be placed on Lot 71 on East Shore Road where Eldred Avenue used to come in, now next to the entrance and exit to the cross-island expressway. More...
Not that the following is really going to happen, but let's allow our imaginations to run a little wild for a few minutes. We'll call this week's column a "what if," for lack of a better term. For years, science fiction writers have created plots involving aliens from distant solar systems invadin... More...
Islanders Heidi Keller Moon, left, and Madeline Coviello were introduced to one another for the first time when a fellow passenger aboard the M/S Nordnorge realized that they were both from Jamestown. Now that they have made the voyage through the Chilean Fjords and Antarctica, both women have visi... More...
On Sunday, Feb. 11, the parishioners of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church will hold their 109th annual meeting in the church proper following a single Sunday service at 9 a.m. The purpose of the meeting is to vote on the annual budget and to elect members to the church's 13-member vestry. Child care ... More...
When we asked Michael Liebhauser if he prefered the names Michael or Mike, he replied, "Call me Mike or call me Michael, just don't call me late for dinner." In addition to his many acting stage credits, he's now evidently working on a stand-up routine. More...
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 25, 50, 75, and 100 years ago from the Newport Daily News comes from the collection of the Newport Historical Society. More...
Elizabeth (Larzelere) Kane, 96, of Jamestown died Jan. 30, 2007 at Newport Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Philadelphia, Pa., the daughter of the late Walter Dubois Larzelere and Katharine Sterrett Creswell. She attended Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia and was later schooled in ... More...
EMS runs Unspecified time, Jan 28, EMS 1 was sent to Walcott Avenue on standby for the fire department. 12:04 p.m., Jan. 29, EMS 1 went to East Shore Road on standby for the fire department. 8:47 p.m., Jan 29, EMS 1 was sent to Starboard Avenue to assist a patient. More...
TOWN OF JAMESTOWN PLANNING BOARD OF APPEAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE JAMESTOWN PLANNING BOARD OF APPEAL WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON FEBRUARY 27, 2007, AT THE JAMESTOWN LIBRARY, 26 NORTH ROAD, JAMESTOWN, RHODE ISLAND AT 7:00 P.M. More...
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