Johnston News

Although a lot less rain fell in June than most people assume, the cloudy skies and dampness have created a "disaster" for the state's strawberry farmers, Al Bettencourt, director of the Rhode Island Farm Bureau, said Thursday.

The Town Council's proposal to add two more commissioners to the Johnston Housing Authority has hit a roadblock in the General Assembly, where a key lawmaker accuses Johnston officials of devising legislation as a means to "target someone" politically.

Richard Mende had no problem keeping pace with his daughters in a bicycle ride that spanned 150 miles over two days.

We were pleasantly surprised and to this day it is our first choice and the standard by which we compare all other Chinese food.

The Town Council approved a 3-percent increase in the residential property tax rate Monday night as taxpayers begged officials to take more aggressive steps to curb the costs of local government.

GREENVILLE Norman Audino Jr., has a big, bad bike. But as the owner-operator of Cortland Place, an independent and assisted-care retirement facility, he's hardly a big, bad biker at heart.

" The Rhode Island carpenters union Local 94 has been out on strike since Monday after voting to reject a final contract offer from the Rhode Island Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America.

Providence a ' Environmental advocates said Thursday that new trash incineration technologies are just as harmful as conventional garbage-burning and asked state officials to keep a ban on incinerators.

Saying they've seen selective enforcement of where groups can protest the U.S. Conference of Mayors this weekend, firefighters supporting the Providence fire department's labor disagreement with the mayor have taken their message a little closer.

Members of Johnston Girl Scout Troop 1026 gather at the URI Master Gardeners Volunteer Project Program's community garden on Monday, June 1, to water the vegetable plants that were planted two days earlier.

Three men accused of selling illegal cigarettes to an undercover federal agent have pleaded guilty to felony charges, but their admissions of guilt are expected to spare them any time in prison.

Always wanting to support a good cause, Nancy Lee Bergeron, of Johnston, never says no to the scratch tickets that are sold at Stop & Shop supermarkets every spring in order to raise money for the Jimmy Fund and Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

At least one Rhode Islander is on her way to the next round of auditions for the next American Idol competition.

The Johnston Community will come together on June 30 in support of an eight-year old town resident who is fighting for his life.

With lawmakers furiously ironing out the final details of the forthcoming Rhode Island state budget, cities and towns are bracing for the possible loss of millions in general revenue funds -- losses they hope to offset with freedom from potentially costly local mandates.

In the moments after a 3-year-old boy was found unconscious on the floor of his mother's car, the police say it was his mother and the man who found him in the car who rushed in with the first attempts to revive him.

Johnston and North Providence officials say they might change their communities' trash-collection services to save money.

Officers Dennis Peacock and John DeAngelis went to talk to Robert J. Desrosiers of 14 Milner Field Rd.

The surveillance cameras mounted on the outside of school buses in Johnston and Providence aren't the only cameras keeping an eye on the vehicles.

The police have charged an 18-year-old Johnston man with two felony counts of third-degree sexual assault of a 14-year-old Johnston girl.