| Sun 5 Jul 2009 |
Haines Park: A recreation wonderland for neighbors
The Providence Journal | With the East Bay Bike Path near its western border, and a 102-acre state park, the leafy streets of West Barrington's Haines Park neighborhood are a convenient home for the recreation-minded. | And when the sporting fields at the Dr. George B. Hai... |
America's best ice cream shops
MSNBC | On any given blissful summer’s day in Portsmouth, N.H., strollers along the charming narrow streets by the harbor are likely to come upon the welcome respite of an ice cream parlor. And better yet, no ordinary ice cream parlor. | This is Annabell... |
Car dealer fights Chrysler over franchise
Chicago Sun-Times | NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A poster in Jim Tarbox's office at his North Kingstown Chrysler Jeep dealership declares: "Challenge: The harder the course, the more rewarding the triumph." | It's a fitting slogan for Tarbox, whose business is suddenly in... |
Outlook Trends Shaping Our World
The Columbus Dispatch Smallest state faces big issue | Activists in Rhode Island want the state to change its official name to delete a reference that they call racially insensitive. The state was founded in 1636 as the colony of "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,"... |
You Talking to Me? Ahhhhh, vacation; but first, what about Hamels?
Philadelphia Daily News | From: Gonzalez, John | To: Ford, Bob; Salisbury, James T. | Subject: Hamels | Every team needs a stopper - especially the Phils. Unfortunately, since June 10, Cole Hamels hasn't pitched like the club's ace. He's 0-3 with a 6.14 ERA over that stretc... |
Eight killed in wrecks before dawn
Boston Herald | A horrific speed-and-alcohol fueled crash in Walpole left three people dead and the driver facing charges in a wreck that left his young fiancee - a new mother - dead, officials say, while in Attleboro three men returning from a nightclub died when... |
July 4: Declaration of Independence signed, 49 and 50th Stars added to flag
The Examiner Comment RSS Email Print | Maine Fast Fact: Maine’s territory was fought over between American and British forces during both the American Revolution and the War of 1812. | Births:1804: Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer1847: James Anthony Bai... |
Ellen Lenox Smith: Don't joke about marijuana
The Providence Journal | I am sure Brenda Bedrick ("Drugged by solons," letter, June 24) is a nice person, but she should not beat up on people who are already down. In her frustration over Rhode Island government, she suggested that it would be nice to get some legalized ... |
News to use
The Providence Journal | Blackstone River tour canceled | All that rain has interfered with something else: The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council has canceled a free river tour that had been scheduled for Sunday because the Blackstone River is running too high and too fast... |
Classical students petition against fixed-schedule plan
The Providence Journal | PROVIDENCE - Students will snooze through first period. They won't be able to socialize with different groups of friends during lunch. Grades will surely suffer because students will be so bored. | Classical High School students are in a snit over ... |
New education commissioner 'ready' to tackle Rhode Island's problems
The Providence Journal | PROVIDENCE - Deborah A. Gist didn't get a lot of sleep during her first week as Rhode Island's education commissioner, but she didn't seem to need much rest. | The 42-year-old, who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and run marathons, exuded energy and ... |
Internal affairs: How grudges, old loyalties, personality conflicts led to union vote against Esserman
The Providence Journal | It was a typical union meeting, second Tuesday of the month, shots and beers in the old hall in a rundown Providence neighborhood. | There was the usual shop talk, and more grumbling about the boss. Then a retired cop with a bullet lodged against h... |
Hundreds attend memorial service for South Kingstown firefighter
The Providence Journal | SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- Several hundred firefighters from Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, along with dozens of friends and relatives, gathered at the University of Rhode Island Saturday morning to pay their respects to Allan "Pick... |
Still ancient, still horrible, parade still draws a crowd
The Providence Journal | GLOCESTER -- There are no horses in this parade. The high school marching bands have been replaced by the funky beats of a clown band from Fall River. And the lines in the middle of the street are not red, white or blue. | Welcome to the irreverent... |
Tens of thousands witness spectacle of America's oldest Fourth of July parade
The Providence Journal | BRISTOL _ Against the backdrop of a pristine summer day, American democracy was celebrated Saturday in a pageant of marching, music and patriotic display whose roots are almost as deep as the Republic. The 224th Bristol celebration, built around a ... |
Bristol puts its best foot forward in 224th Fourth of July parade
The Providence Journal | BRISTOL - Against the backdrop of a pristine summer day, American democracy was celebrated Saturday in a pageant of marching, music and patriotic display whose roots are almost as deep as the Republic. The 224th Bristol celebration, built around a ... |
3 killed in one-car crash on Rte. 95 in Attleboro
The Providence Journal | ATTLEBORO - Three persons were killed and a fourth seriously injured in an accident on Route 95 early Saturday, the state police said. | The victims were among eight who died in four separate holiday weekend crashes, two of them triple fatalities, ... |
A Plantation to Be Proud Of
The New York Times | LAST month, Rhode Island's Legislature approved a proposal to allow a ballot referendum in 2010 to change the state's official name from "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" to simply "State of Rhode Island." According to The Providen... |
Hundreds gather to bid South Kingstown volunteer firefighter good-bye
The Providence Journal | SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- Several hundred firefighters from Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, along with dozens of friends and relatives, gathered at the University of Rhode Island Saturday morning to pay their respects to Allan "Pick... |
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