Exeter News

About 1,700 athletes will swim 1.2 miles in Narragansett, bike 56 miles and then race a 13.1-mile half-marathon in Providence on Sunday in the Amica Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island.

The state Department of Health Wednesday recommended reopening Barrington Town Beach and Camp Canonicus, Exeter, for swimming.

The Rhode Island Department of Health issued a press release Thursday afternoon, recommending the closure of multiple beaches in the Ocean State.

The Defense Department has announced its policy for transferring educational benefits to the spouses and children of military service personnel under the post 9/11 GI Bill, which takes effect Aug.

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.

Sulo was lost Friday morning in Exeter RI. He is a one year old Great Dane. Don't be intimidated by his size, he is very friendly and approachable according to his owners, but is also skittish, so try to get him to come to you if you spot him.

Advocates for the developmentally disabled are holding a four-day vigil at the marker of the original "Rhode Island Home for the Feeble-Minded." The building in Exeter, that became known as the Ladd Center, was ordered closed after an investigation into poor conditions there the late 1970s.

A carriage from New Deal Farm in Exeter takes a turn around Roger Williams Park in Providence.

Bristol plans to host a parade Monday morning to its North Burial Ground, while veterans in Central Falls will lay a wreathe to honor those who died at sea.

A new monument under construction will honor the soldiers and airmen who have served in the Rhode Island National Guard.

State Rep. Rod Driver, generous soul, says he will donate $100 to charity for every second that W., Dick Cheney and Condi Rice agree to undergo waterboarding.

EXETER, R.I. & WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- -- Top Avaya reseller and communications integrator, Carousel Industries, and CyberTech North America, the leading solution provider for quality and compliance recording, today announced an agreement to partner in a range of compliance and quality communications solutions for the Avaya platform.

Fatima Mello, of East Providence, met Jennifer Willis, of West Warwick, due to their common experience with a woman whom Mello includes in the group she calls "seasoned manipulators." "They end up knowing how to play the system," says Mello.

While Rhode Island's political leaders wrestle with state pension reform, there's another big pension headache out there -- the soaring cost of municipal pensions.

PROVIDENCE: The House Judiciary Committee Thursday evening swiftly approved a bill to criminalize prostitution that occurs indoors, with a full vote on the House floor expected as early as next week.

State police say the former Ladd school is a popular late-night hangout for teens because of Internet rumors that it's haunted.

Rhode Island State Police have charged five young people with robbing people of the grounds of the closed Ladd School in Exeter.

THE NEW PARK in Providence? What new park in Providence? Well, the one that is so new, so unpublicized and so unknown that it might as well be under a bridge.

Call it a farce, call it a travesty, call it legal loonie tunes. Paul Kelly still can't get into the cabin he owns in Exeter near the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery.

Here are the eight applications for charter schools in the pipeline - seven for new schools and one for an existing school to expand: Two proposals have already received "preliminary approval" from the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education: the Segue Institute, a middle school in Central Falls; and the Urban League Middle College ...