Cooking for fun Jackson Hawkins, at front, and Isaac Spivak learn about pizza making from Joy Vieira at Ace's pizza. The two boys were there with their Cub Scout den to complete a cooking badge. Photo by Adrienne Downing More...
The federal Environmental Protection Agency will hold a hearing in Jamestown next week as the next step in the process to determine whether Conanicut Island should be designated a Sole Source Aquifer. The meeting will be held at the Jamestown library on Wednesday, Feb. 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. and is... More...
Governor Donald Carcieri released two budgets late last week and the town of Jamestown stands to lose $31, 000 in the remaining fiscal year and the same amount in the upcoming fiscal year. According to the Governor's budget summary, Rhode Island is facing one of the largest budget deficits in his... More...
Jamestowner J. William Harsch has been appointed to the state Ethics Commission. Harsch is one of two attorneys named to fill vacancies on the commission this week by Governor Donald Carcieri. "This is a tremendous honor. I am very flattered," Harsch told the Jamestown Press. More...
Next week representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will visit Jamestown to conduct a hearing on whether the island should be designated as a Sole Source Aquifer. A petition for the designation was made in 2005 by the North End Concerned Citizens as part of its battle to keep th... More...
As former residents of Jamestown for nearly eleven years, we still check into the island via the Jamestown Press. This past week we were shocked to read a piece passing itself off as a news item regarding the certificate of occupancy given Jack's Electric by the Zoning Board of Review. More...
The age of super everything, from the Super Bowl to Super Tuesday, and super models to super stars, occasionally comes with super problems, mostly because of the super stupid and the extraordinarily dumb. More...
Letters and postcards were the way islanders kept in touch with each other in the ninteenth and twentieth centuries. The new exhibit in the display case in the library lobby shows a sampling of these types of communications from the Jamestown Historical Society's collection. More...
Love is in the air as we approach St. Valentine's Day. And, what greater love than that between a 3-year-old and her new feline, a young cat with a very unusual name that up until a month or so ago was living under unusual conditions in South Carolina. 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, February 4, 1908 With the thermometer only 2 degrees above zero this morning, a good ice crop seem... More...
Capt. Frederic C. Caswell, Jr., 78, of 2 Bryer Ave., Jamestown, died on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008 at Newport Hospital. He was the husband of Ruth E. (Farrington) Caswell. Born in Newport on August 21, 1929, he was a son of the late Frederic C. and Hannah W. (Grinnell) Caswell. More...
Drunk driving charged Shawnn M. Huelbig, 58, of Cranston, was charged Feb. 2 with first offense drunk driving and refusal to take a Breathalyzer test. Police received a BOLO (be on the lookout) from the Newport Police Department for a vehicle operating erratically and stopped Huelbig on Route 1... More...
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