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2011 began with a fierce fire that leveled a Little Compton barn and garage. The ...

A life-flight helicopter awaits the victim of a Route 24 crash in Tiverton in January. ...

A sailboat came to grief on Portsmouth’s Sakonnet River shore during a winter storm and ...

On the hotseat in 2011 was Tiverton treasurer Philip DiMattia whose accounting methods and delays ...

After marathon meetings, the Portsmouth Town Council opted in February not to allow a small ...

Bay Street misery continues unabated as cleanup work ground to a halt in February. Residents ...

Mike Simpson (pictured) and Will Rich, intrepid stand-up paddleboarders with Little Compton/Westport ties, pushed off ...

A year after her Embrace of Life was stolen from a sculpture garden and cut ...

The tragic loss of Westport/Little Compton artist Lydia Poole Barker in March to a snowstorm ...

Worries about arsenic and other contaminants in landfill cover being used at the old Island ...

Although the state supreme court sided with the Tiverton Yacht Club in late March and ...

Sewers talk stirred controversy all year-long (here soil tests are conducted near the Sakonnet River ...

Here a botanist trims some bearded lichen from a tree this spring. Although it sprouted ...

Two osprey chose a Sakonnet River Bridge crane to build their nest in April. A ...

Built for Puma at Portsmouth’s East Passage Yachting Center, the carbon speedster Mar Mostro, unveiled ...

Participants look less than enthused in what proved to be the last Tiverton Town meeting ...

Mello’s Farm in Portsmouth sacrificed sales space in May and June so that a mother ...

Nanaquaket Pond resident Jacqueline Mei led opposition to a proposed oyster farm there. The plan ...

Metal thieves reached yet another low in June when they cut track out of the ...

Almost all here celebrated Hess LNG’s decision in June to abandon plans to build an ...

Sparked by lightning, fire leveled this Seapowet Avenue, Tiverton, house in July.

A wave from Tropical Storm crashes over the Sakonnet Harbor seawall over Labor Day weekend.

A young man was rescued by a Brewer’s Sakonnet Marina crew when he fell from ...

Tales of warrants, past arrests for violent crimes, mythical military service in Iraq and more ...

Offshore storms provided superb September surfing (seen here off Little Compton).

A car comes to grief alongside the Tiverton town library in September. The driver was ...

With the close of October, Briggs Video Store, a staple in Portsmouth and one of ...

By a healthy margin, Tiverton residents approved in November a new town library (drawing for ...

The new Sakonnet River Bridge passed a milestone in November when the last cross-river tub ...

The Sakonnet Light fairly gleams after its Friends completed a thorough restoration that wrapped up ...

In one of the year’s saddest stories, Joel Beaulieu is ushered into court during his ...