Ashaway News

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.

State police are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash in eastern Connecticut that has claimed the life of a Rhode Island man.

A Rhode Island man was killed Sunday evening when he lost control of his motorcycle on Route 12.

Ch. Linn-Lee's for the Good Times, an almost 2-year-old Pekingese owned and bred by Erna G. Holcombe and Charlotte Carter of Morris, Ala., was Best In Show winner at both the April 25 and 26 dog shows sponsored by South County Kennel Club.

When French explorer Samuel de Champlain came to America in the early 17th century, tens of thousands of native people already were settled in New England.