East Greenwich News

The 8th oldest community in the state, East Greenwich is the West Bay heavyweight with a quaint main street and its own underappreciated waterfront.

The owners of three houses on Sarah's Trace who want their tax assessments dropped to zero are asking the Town Council to allow their tax assessment appeals to be heard again by the East Greenwich Board of Assessors, following what their lawyer argues was unfair treatment.

Wickford Barracks On June 3, at 2:41 a.m., Troopers, arrested Ashley Goodhart, 25, of 57 Princeton Ave., Coventry, RI on a Third Division District Court Bench Warrant for Failure to Appear for a Technical Violation on the charge of Domestic Assault out of the West Warwick Police Department.

In a 5-0 vote Monday night, the Town Council approved a six-month moratorium on all wind turbines while a more-permanent ordinance is drafted, recommended by the town's Planning Board .

East Greenwich, RI June 17, 2013 - Bridge Technical Talent, a Rhode Island-based Information Technology staffing firm, announces today that it has acquired BPS Becker Professional Search, Inc. The acquisition of BPS is part of an overall growth strategy for Bridge.

Effective immediately, the RI Department of Health Director Michael Fine has ordered the revocation of the pharmacist license of former state Senator Leo Blais .

Happy Father's Day! We have two Father's Day posts for today, a video - " What I learned from my dad " - and a complilation of readers' thoughts about their dad.

This beauty is Sauvignon, the young mother of the wine kittens. She is a gray tabby who is a little shy, but warms up with the right attention and love.

Cancer walk/run: The Second Annual Esophageal Cancer Walk/Run takes place today at Warwick City Park at 9 a.m. Cost is $25 the day of the walk; children 12 and under and pets walk free.

Film producer Chad A. Verdi has announced his intentions for the sequel to "Self Storage," a horror movie released earlier this year starring Eric Roberts, Jonathan Silverman and Michael Berryman.

It's quite possible there were more nonresidents than residents at Tuesday night's annual Financial Town Meeting at the high school.

Paulinka deRochemont of West Greenwich has been teaching violin to Jacqueline Soscia, 16, of North Kingstown, since Jacqueline was 3 years old.

Main Street "Jazz" Stroll: Thursday's stroll is titled "Jazz on Main," because there will be several different jazz groups playing up and down Main Street in celebration of the Stroll's 10th anniversary.

The congregation of Torat Yisrael is home again. Several years after deciding to move from its longtime home in Cranston, Temple Torat Yisrael's new house of worship on Middle Road in East Greenwich was dedicated Sunday afternoon.

Bill Sequino has a new job as executive director of the RI Clean Water Finance Agency, and the Department of Revenue is looking for a new Woonsocket Budget Commission chairman.

The secretary of Rhode Island's largest teachers union has resigned after being arrested following a fight at a union meeting inside an East Greenwich restaurant.

James Setzler is serious about his ham radio avocation. So serious, in fact, that he recently replaced a large antenna afixed to the side of his house on Sylvan Drive with an even larger antenna - this one reaching 67 feet into the air - held in place with stantions bolted to concrete footings at three corners of his property.

The night before the East Greenwich Planning Board heard testimony on "The Commons at Frenchtown Road," the North Kingstown Planning Commission approved the master plan for the same development.

Police arrested Louis G. Rainone, 58, of Ausdale Road in Cranston, for assault after an incident Friday afternoon at the Harbourside Restaurant.

The National Weather Service in Taunton has issued a flood watch for East Greenwich and much of the Southern New England area starting tonight and lasting through Tuesday evening.