Cumberland News

By traditional measures such as reading scores and math scores, the city's schools are generally doing well.

The Cumberland School District is on high alert after school officials discovered "suspicious graffiti" at least twice this week, school officials said.

Local heavy-hitters and pavement-pounding veterans fill the pre-Turkey Day week ahead.

The upcoming holidays bring families together to share dinners and gifts, but there are plenty of families who cannot afford to celebrate.

Bristol: The Bristol Veterans Council will have a wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial Garden at the Burnside Building on Hope Street at 8:30 a.m. along with the playing of taps.

Though residents have raised concerns about the town's new recycling initiative, called "Waste Not," Recycling Coordinator Donna Kaehler said the state is decreasing the municipal trash caps for cities and towns all over the state, forcing the town to keep plowing through with its "no bin, no barrel" policy.

Town Council members are offering to release School Committee members from their uncomfortable pledge to forego $373,000 in town funding this year.

No. 1 seed Woonsocket will host No. 8 seed Lincoln at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Barry Field in the quarterfinal round of the Division II playoffs.

The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council kicked off the holiday season's rides on The Polar Express by stockpiling the standard hot chocolate and sugar cookies along with the new travel musts: hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes and surgical masks.

I "met" Scottish folk cellist Seylan Baxter through another blog I write about my cello-playing adventures a couple of years ago when she commented on my posts about attending Scottish fiddle camp.

The key to northern Rhode Island's future prosperity rests with a successful commuter rail system, said state and local officials Monday.

A car crashed into a house in Cumberland. It happened at about noon Sunday on Mendon Road.

On the second night of an unusual October gathering of the part-time General Assembly , lawmakers Thursday night outlawed indoor prostitution, voted to allow mixed-martial arts battles in Rhode Island venues, and were close to banning drivers from text messaging on Ocean State roads.

Hoping to reduce Cumberland Rescue Service overtime costs currently running about $29,000 a month, Mayor Daniel McKee will begin advertising immediately, he told The Breeze Friday, for per-diem rescue service employees.

Nathan Hannon was fired from his job at Resource Recovery, but was still able to collect unemployment.

Downtown bus stops will be relocated as parts of Kennedy Plaza are closed for a month-long repaving project starting Oct.

Nathan Hannon reported three trips during the summer to the Newport YMCA as part of his job as education coordinator for the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.

A Rhode Island town politician, Antonio Albuquerque, is facing some serious charges of simple domestic assault... Add a comment Name: Comment: 500 Characters Left Please post your full name and city on comments.

Right on cue, 15,000 ducks drop into the Blackstone River as a line of soggy spectators watch from the Blackstone Bike Trail.

Vocalist Emiliano Loconsolo and his band help celebrate Italian Heritage Month on Saturday with a program exploring 1,000 years of Italian popular songs, at the Blackstone River Theatre.