Ashaway News

A 65-year-old Westerly man died Sunday after he was hit by a pickup driven by a Hopkinton man, 80, Westerly police said Monday.

Keith W. Bowers, 39, of 11 Beech Hill Road, Ashaway, was charged Wednesday with reckless driving, failure to obey a traffic signal, and making an improper turn.

Lou Bellisle III won the battle, but Danny Field won the war. Bellisle, of Lisbon held off Danny Field of Deep River to win the 50-lap Mini Stock feature Sunday at the Waterford Speedbowl.

Town planners have denied an application to build a Love's Travel Stop and Country Store in a rural area off Route 95 at Exit 1. The Oklahoma-based company proposed building a 24-hour truck stop on an 18-acre parcel bisected by Route 3. The proposal called for roughly 145 parking spaces, a drive-through restaurant and a convenience store.

American Kuhne Inc. is displaying a new gearless extruder designed to run at conventional single screw speeds.

A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday when his bike hit a deer at Laurel and Church streets.

Cartons of Rhody Fresh milk in a cooler at McQuade's Marketplace in Jamestown. The Rhode Island Dairy Farms Cooperative, which sells locally produced milk under the Rhody Fresh brand, is adding four new local dairy farms to its membership, bringing the total to nine.