Charlestown News Archives

The teen who survived sand caving in on him Tuesday is not only up and walking, but he's doing well enough to be out talking about it Friday.

Great Big Sea will play Sunday, Sept. 6, at the Rhythm & Roots Festival in Charlestown.

Police officers, firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians from several towns were in the fourth point of a volleyball game at the sand courts behind the Charlestown ambulance building Tuesday evening on Old Post Road when the call came in.

A 17-year-old boy was rescued Tuesday night from East Beach in Charlestown, Rhode Island after a hole he spent hours digging collapsed and buried him up to his neck.

Share + Aug 25, 2009 8:58 pm US/Eastern CHARLESTOWN, R.I. A beach in Rhode Island became the scene of a dramatic rescue attempt Tuesday evening.

The Narragansett Indians will use federal stimulus money to revive an 18-year-old dream: to provide housing for the tribe's poor and elderly.

The police are asking for the public's help as they continue to investigate a bank robbery Saturday morning at Sovereign Bank of New England, at 1146 Hope St.

Police say the car was headed south when the driver apparently crossed the median, hit a guard rail and flipped on its side CHARLESTOWN, R.I. _ Police say a man in his 50s has died in a single-vehicle crash on Route 1 in Charlestown.

The police say a man in his 50s has died in a single-vehicle crash on Route 1 in Charlestown.

Todd Conklin admits that he's surprised. Pleasantly surprised. Conklin, who with his family runs the Surfside Motel in Charlestown, R.I., says that activity at his 15-room inn in July was strong, with occupancy up some 12 percent from the comparable month last year.

The master bathroom with a Jacuzzi and shower room. When Mark and Lynne Bard were looking to buy a house, they wanted a substantial piece of land, plus easy access to the ocean.

We all quite enjoyed our trip to Charlestown, Rhode Island last weekend for the Narragansetts' 334th annual August Meeting and Green Corn Thanksgiving, where we did plenty of catching up with friends and family, relationships cultivated for thousands of years.

More than a half-hour remained before tribal members would make their grand entrance into the Narragansett Indian powwow Saturday, but Ridge Burrell was ready to go with each thump of a drum.

The northeast powwow season is suddenly upon us and we can't help but be excited! This coming weekend, many of us will travel to Charlestown, Rhode Island, to visit with our Narragansett neighbors and celebrate with them their 334th annual August Meeting and Green Corn Thanksgiving.

A Charlestown man, who said he had just left a Point Judith restaurant and was "distracted," rear-ended two cars Wednesday night on Point Judith Road.