2013-05-23

The North Kingstown High girls’ varsity lacrosse team is wrapping up a challenging regular season. This, according to Jamestowner Maey Petrie, 17, the team goalie. Petrie said the Skippers expect to make the playoffs. One game with LaSalle, originally scheduled for May 9, was postponed, but regard­less of that contest’s outcome, the team is assured of second place behind East […]

“You have cancer.” Those three words have inspired a new feature- length documentary by Rhode Is­land filmmaker Paul Roselli. The film, which is called “These Three Words,” is currently in production. It chronicles the daily lives of five people who are in various stages of brain cancer. Among the film’s subjects is Dr. Scott Wang, who has been living in […]

Rep. Deborah Ruggiero has se­cured a $500 legislative grant for the Jamestown Community Farm. Ruggiero recently presented the grant to the farm, which is using the money to purchase seeds, ac­cording to Jamestown Community Farm Board President Deborah Foppert. “The grant was a surprise, but then again, it wasn’t really surpris­ing for us, because of how much she does for […]

Officer Mark Esposito, of the Jamestown Police Department re­cently completed more than 200 hours of training in criminal inves­tigation during the past 26 weeks at the University of Rhode Island. The two-part course was fo­cused on the theory and practice of crime scene investigation, em­ploying the modern techniques of crime scene preservation, crime scene search and the collection, preservation and […]

The Jamestown Town Council approved police Chief Ed Mello’s amendments to the parking ordi­nance with the changes the chief made after listening to residents’ and councilors’ comments at the May 6 public hearing. Mello did not attend Monday night’s meeting; in his absence, Town Administrator Bruce Keiser summarized the final revisions. Specifically, Mello decided not to install a four-way stop […]