Exciting, innovative FTR deserves yes vote
To the editor: I am not a current or former member of the TEA (NEA-Tiverton), TCC, CFBT or CURB. Rather, I am writing this letter in enthusiastic support of the Financial Town Referendum (FTR) proposal ...
Tiverton's grocery store preps for opening day
Old photos, aisles named after local neighborhoods, set local tone
TIVERTON — For now, workers on ladders, threading wires, and installing display cases and signs, offer the only action at Tom’s Market, the new Tive
Tiverton ‘leaders’ striving to sink our schools
To the editor: I am the proud product of a public school education. I believe strongly in the impact schools have on a community and in the various communities we lived.
Toll talk resumes for Mount Hope Bridge
Gallison calls on governor to replace bridge authority board
Authority says it needs cash for maintenance; Gallison says decisions already made
Cleanups abound around the Sakonnet area
The 26th annual International Coastal Cleanup and Litter Survey is this Saturday, Sept. 17, and cleanups have been scheduled around the Sakonnet area and are in need of volunteers.
Irene leaves Sakonnet powerless
Irene snapped off trees and limbs by the hundred, sent a few boats onto the beach and provided a spectacle for surf watchers, but it was its impact on electrical service that will leave the most lasting and bitter memory.
PHS students suspended for football game incident
Four Portsmouth high school students were suspended for ten days following an alcohol-related incident Friday night that led to one of them being sent to the hospital.
Teen drivers take crash course at PHS
Surprises lurk on the road, students learn in Distractology 101
It didn’t take long Friday for high school seniors Tim Mello and Matt Julius to get comfortable behind the wheel at a distracted driver’s course, casually traversing open roads with one hand ... But within 15 minutes, Matt was sitting in his driver’s seat looking through cracked glass at the motorcycle he had just hit.
Amended budget approved, shortfall and all
The town council approved Monday an amended budget for fiscal year 2010-2011, but questioned whether the process was necessary when it just rearranges numbers, leaving imbalances.
Sandywoods' 'prize' orchard takes root
New orchard planted Sunday with 50 trees won in contest
Sandywoods Farm played host Sunday to a 21st century Johnny Appleseed who helped over 100 farm residents and guests plant 50 fruit trees ...
Council gives preliminary nod to voters’ pamplet
Ballot measure proponents propose pamplet, plan to write content
The idea of a voter’s information pamphlet, that would explain the two measures on the ballot and be mailed to the town’s registered voters ahead of the Nov. 8 special election, got a preliminary okay from the Town Council at its meeting Monday night.
Elderly woman drives into library stairwell
An 86-year-old woman became trapped in her car late Wednesday morning when she drove it through a guard rail and onto an outdoor stairwell at Tiverton's Essex Public Library.
Largest volunteer event in the state is coming up
Beyond our Walls, an interfaith organization dedicated to community improvement, is preparing for the seventh annual Great Day of Service on Columbus Day, Monday, Oct. 10. The day provides an opportunity for people to come together to work side by side, assisting nonprofit agencies in need of community service through a work project.
Mystery fuel sheen found on harbor
Fuel found along east side of Tiverton Basin
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