Members of Jamestown's fire and ambulance squads rescued a man who fell on the rocks at Beavertail State Park on Monday morning. The North Smithfield man suffered a broken lower leg in the fall and was taken to Newport Hospital. Photo by Andrea von Hohenleiten More...
Business went on as usual at this week's council session as Town Council President David Long presided over his final meeting. "Last one?" an audience member asked before the meeting began. Long replied with a nod and a smile. More...
Jamestown voters may have gone to the polls last week, but the election isn't over for one council candidate. Michael Schnack, who narrowly lost reelection last week, has exercised his right to a recount. Last Tuesday, 1,694 voters turned out to cast their votes in Jamestown's municipal election... More...
Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed (D - Dist. 13, Jamestown, Newport) joined Governor Donald Carcieri and public safety and education officials at a press conference last week to announce the implementation of new safety precautions being taken at schools as well as the accomplishments o... More...
The island election is over. A new Town Council has been voted into office. All that's left is to swear in the new council members and get down to the business at hand. The first agenda item for a new Town Council is to select a president. It has been a long-time Jamestown tradition that the coun... More...
As you are aware, I was the highest vote getter in the Town Council election and I thank the townspeople for their support of my candidacy. Over the years, the highest vote getter of the winning party in council elections typically has been asked to be the council president. More...
It's over, folks. The season has ended. We are in a new phase. There will be no more vegging for the rest of the year. Not one weird fresh vegetable will be brought into this house from anybody's garden until next summer. Look outside. What do you see? More...
Dinner to fund capitol trip Jamestown's grade 8 students will be traveling to Washington D.C. next June for a four-day field trip. A dinner will be held on Saturday, Nov.17, to help raise money to pay for this trip. The dinner will be served by the students to members of the public who want t... More...
Performances for the Jamestown Community Theatre's production of "Into the Woods," will be Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18 at 5 p.m. at the community center. The production is a musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine that tells what happens when all of the ... More...
Newporter Jan Shapin, who has written plays and screenplays for over 20 years and has recently turned her attention to fiction, will be at the Jamestown library on Sunday, at 2 p.m. to talk of "Fact and Fiction, Writing an Historical Novel. More...
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society. 100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, November 15, 1907 Men are at work setting out trees, under the direction of the Improvement Societ... More...
Lily C. (Cabral) Costa, 83, of Dewey Lane, passed away Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007 at home. She was the beloved wife of Francis Costa for 55 years. Born in Providence, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Gloria (Medeiros) Cabral. More...
In a story about fisher cats in last week's edition of the Press, Pat Munafo was reported to have made a comment about the state's Department of Environmental Management response to the fisher cat issue. Munafo says she did not call DEM herself about the issue. More...
CITATION STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT PETITION TO FORECLOSE TAX LIEN N. M. No. 2007-0585 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, AND TO PATRICK H. More...
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