Exeter News

Cathy Lynne Haynes was dying from AIDS when Jim Coutinho knocked on her door last month.

The R.I. Statewide Planning Program awarded a total of $1 million to 17 recipients who will utilize the money to study transportation and development issues.

His father was a lifelong scalloper, his uncles are fishermen, and 23-year-old Chris Pinto realized as he got older that fishing is "in my blood." It just didn't look like it was in his future.

Clark Whitford, 77, has owned Blueberry Hill Farm store in Exeter, R.I., for 35 years.

The map below is a snapshot of the absentee rates for each Rhode Island community on Nov.

This week, thousands of veterans and their supporters will organize in every corner of Rhode Island, New England and across America to honor those who have served their country, whether in war or peacetime.

Rhode Island veterans groups will mark Veterans Day this weekend with a wreath-laying ceremony at the state Veterans Cemetery.

A GROWING FUTURE: Representatives from the Audubon Society of Rhode Island and Independence Financial Partners teamed up to plant 100 sugar maples throughout the state.

Somebody whispers. Somebody screams. Nobody is in the room with you, but somebody touches you.

Volunteer Leo Fox, of South Kingstown, installs memorial bricks at the Living Memorial erected by the Rhode Island National Guard Retirees Association at the Veterans Cemetery in Exeter.

Pink ginger from Wishing Stone Farm in Little Compton on its way to local chefs.

Everybody talks a good game about bringing local food to market, but it's nothing short of amazing what Farm Fresh Rhode Island is doing to make it happen here.

A horse in Exeter that had Eastern equine encephalitis has been euthanized. State environmental officials say the 5-month-old animal was put down on Sunday after displaying neurological symptoms of the disease, and positive test results for EEE were confirmed Friday.

Instead of solving the problem, state lawmakers eager to win jobs simply decreed three years ago that Amgen would get its water.

For more than 300 years, Rhode Island has had some kind of a state militia, what today we call the Rhode Island National Guard.

Joel Pierce Flather, age 68, of Little Compton, died September 16, 2009, in Rhode Island Hospital surrounded by his family.

On the very first day of the school year, 12-year-old Mileena Rodriguez was reminded by President Barack Obama himself that hard work can take you places.

In Paula Torti's little house on Pierce Avenue, a breezeway connects her kitchen to the in-law apartment in the garage where the brother of a former husband lived.

Malfunctions with the water-systems at three schools in the Exeter-West Greenwich Regional Schools have forced the district to issue bottled water to students to drink until state health officials give the OK, Supt.

Solis and Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, will visit the Exeter Job Corps Academy on Tuesday.