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Challengers get T-shirt

Not only are the Portsmouth Challenger baseball players taking the field in the Little League World Series this summer, they’ve now got their own T-shirt.

Prudence Island Water District List of Rates and Charges - 05/16

Prudence Island Water District List of Rates and Charges

Tiverton public service appointments - 05/16

The Town of Tiverton is currently seeking applicants from the citizens of Tiverton for consideration of appointment to the following boards on which openings may exist:

Tiverton probates - 05/16

On the dates specified in notices below at 8:30 a.m. for hearing of said matters.

Sakonnet police reports

Arrests, incidents from the past week ...

Tiverton referendum results

Budget Committee budget wins by 165 votes

TIVERTON — Voters in Tiverton for four days, culminating Tuesday, May 15, participated in the town’s first-ever Financial Town Referendum, with the following — unofficial — results announced late Tuesday night at 9:12 p.m.:

Hot dogs for hot days

PORTSMOUTH — Sandy Point Beach goers will be able to get some hot eats in between dips this summer.

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Pennfield-Beijing exchange broadens students’ horizons

PORTSMOUTH — Seven Pennfield students went on the trip of a lifetime through a new exchange program with a Shanghai school.

Two turbines have trouble this week

PORTSMOUTH — The Hodges Badge Company turbine on East Main, plagued by issues from the start, finally spun all day for the first time May 4. But it hasn’t spun since.

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Little Compton teacher duct-taped to wall in fund-raiser

Seventh graders raise $961 in novel event

By Heather Fitzgerald LITTLE COMPTON — When a group of seventh grade students at Wilbur McMahon School was looking for unique ways to raise money for the American Cancer Society, the students asked their physical education teacher Jason Ford if he’d help them out. Their idea? Duct tape their teacher to the wall!