An old-fashioned pie-eating contest was just one event at the teen center sponsored, Bands at the Bunker Family Picnic, held at Ft. Wetherill Aug. 13. More...
There is just one question on next Tuesday's ballot and it asks voters to either approve or reject the construction and funding of a highway garage on property at upper Taylor Point. More...
Town Administrator Bruce Keiser met Tuesday afternoon with representatives of the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority to hammer out final details of the agreement to purchase a piece of land the authority owns to put up a highway barn. More...
An old islander once told me that Jamestowners can never get anything accomplished without first fighting about it for 10 years. When you look at the history of past town projects, such as the police station and the wastewater treatment plant, that generalization appears to be true. More...
I try to find a little humor about the highway barn controversy that appears in the "Letters" section of the Press, but I rarely do. What I did find in the past two issues of the Press, is that no matter how hard the pro and con writers try to convince readers to support one location or the other... More...
When I was a kid, as many of you know, I ran around with a noname ragtag group of ne'er-do-wells with questionable virtue, character, and sense of purpose. Our primary occupation and major pastime was attempting to survive childhood without actually working at it in the traditional sense of the wo... More...
Independent filmmaker Jay Craven will be at the Jamestown library tonight, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m. to introduce his film, "Disappearances," in its Rhode Island premiere. Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher, the film is a spellbinding tale of high-stakes whiskey smuggling, a family... More...
The Men's Chorus of Jamestown will perform in concert on Saturday, Sept. 1. The popular group, formerly known as the Jamestown All-Guy Choir, will present a fun evening of music and just a bit of silliness. More...
Thursday Aug. 23 Military Families Ice Cream Social, 830 East Shore Rd., 1:30 p.m. Teen Center Open Rec., community center, 3-6 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, St. Matthew's church, 5:30 p.m. More...
From taking coffee orders at the East Ferry Deli counter to a stage at the NBC studios in Los Angeles must be a heady experience for anyone. But islander Rochelle Rose, who turned 18 last Saturday, is taking it all in stride. She already went through the rigors of competing in the Miss Rhode Isla... More...
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago from the Newport Daily News came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society. More...
Muriel E. (Bedal) Pratt, 92, formerly of Jamestown died Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007, at the Scandinavian Home in Cranston. Born in Chicago, Ill., she was a daughter of the late Eugene and Vera (Yetter) Bedal. Mrs. Pratt was a medical social worker at Roger Williams Medical Center before retiring. More...
I would like to clarify any confusion there may have been in my Viewpoint last week, specifically the first - and very crucial - reason I offered supporting upper Taylor Point. The landfill remediation must be finished before any facility can be built on Lot 47. More...
CITATION STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT PETITION TO FORECLOSE TAX LIENN. M. NO. 2007-0420 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, AND TO LORRAINE Y. MOSHER, the unknown heirs of LORRAINE Y. MOSHER, and the unknown devisees of LORRAINE Y. More...
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