Hope News

Organizations all over Rhode Island are getting into the spirit of giving by inviting families to join with other families in making 2009 a great holiday season.

A BIT MUCH, YOUR HONOR "Chiefy" Williams's relationship with his driver and her family was clearly inappropriate.

" An assistant principal at Mount Hope High School received a $25,000 Milken Educator Award Tuesday morning for his work improving student performance at the school that serves Bristol and Warren children.

While the art of ballet cannot sustain sold-out audiences at VMA or PPAC, the intimate and exciting a oeUp Close on Hopea is one of the hottest tickets in Rhode Island.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence is launching a new fundraising campaign to provide more scholarships to families in need.

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.

Sherlock Holmes would perhaps have dubbed it "The Case of the Oviform Projectiles" and wound up baffled, but then again the great fictional detective didn't operate in the age of the Internet.

WHERE A HOUSE WILL SOON RISE: As shovels stood at the ready, community and business leaders gathered Monday outside the Thomas Wilbur Homestead in Apponaug to break ground for five new housing units for people with disabilities being built by The House of Hope.

The Coastal Growers' Market will hold its first Wintertime Farmers' Market at the Lafayette Mill beginning Saturday, Nov.

Curt Columbus, artistic director of Providence-based Trinity Repertory Company, told projo.com readers during a lunchtime online chat Thursday that he was "excited" by Travel & Leisure magazine's naming of Providence as the fourth-best theater city in the nation.

Before they stuff themselves silly with Halloween candy, let your kids stuff some spare pantyhose to create plump pumpkins and other seasonal, soft-sculpture decorations.

Pumpkins and other spooky crafts made from old pantyhose are an easy and fun project for your kids this Halloween season.

The final WaterFire lighting of the season takes place Saturday, but not before a daylong series of activities celebrating breast cancer awareness month.

State, city and social service agencies will spend nearly $7 million in federal stimulus money to prevent homelessness and help those in emergency shelters find stable housing.

For years, Carleton Freese lived like a king. He swam in all the world's oceans.

SADDLE UP: Albrecht DA1 4rer's "The Large Horse," from RISD's "The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650." A year ago the future looked bright as the RISD Museum debuted its shiny new Chace Center.

Two of this fall's dance performances will tell Halloween-style stories - a reprise of Viktor Plotnikov's THE WIDOW'S BROOM , by Festival Ballet Providence, and a premiere of Miki Ohlsen's DRACULA , by Island Moving Co.

Friday is the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, which claimed the lives of several with ties to the Rhode Island area.

One of the outstanding features is the very modern and practical addition of the church, which was completed in February 2009 and is easily adaptable for the many church activities.

The town has advised the chief of the Seaconke Wampanoag tribe to order a homeless encampment off a Superfund hazardous waste site by Wednesday or face potential court action.