North Smithfield News

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

Though residents have raised concerns about the town's new recycling initiative, called "Waste Not," Recycling Coordinator Donna Kaehler said the state is decreasing the municipal trash caps for cities and towns all over the state, forcing the town to keep plowing through with its "no bin, no barrel" policy.

In "Mary Poppins," feeding the birds was only a tuppence a bag, but for Animal Control Office Scott Goodwin these days, it's more like $7.70. And since Thursday, when he become the caretaker of about 30 parakeets seized as part of a Department of Environmental Management investigation, it's becoming a problem, financially anyway.

The Rev. Eileen Morris thought a recent incidence of vandalism at her church was over and done with, the damage repaired and a ceremony of conciliation completed, but it happened again, she said on Wednesday.

Police in North Smithfield say a man made up a bogus story about being carjacked.

A vehicle that was carjacked on a rural highway off-ramp Tuesday night has not been located, according to the North Smithfield police.

North Smithfield police said a Burrillville man was carjacked at gunpoint Tuesday night.

Two people were displaced in a morning fire that occurred at a single-family house at 375 Saint Paul St.

Animal control officers are investigating how a cat landed high up in a tree in the village of Pascoag, caught, severely injured, in a type of steel trap that has been banned in Rhode Island since 1977.

According to The Woonsocket Call, someone is stealing street signs in North Smithfield.

North Smithfield police are asking for help to catch whoever has been swiping signs around town.

The federal government will dangle more cash in front of recession-weary Americans soon in the hope they will get out and spend money at stores around the country.

" The R.I. Economic Development Corporation has awarded a $250,000 loan from its Small Business Loan Fund to Material Sampling Technologies LLC, a four-month-old metal refining and reclamation company that focuses on the electronics industry.

But where the Irish rock group only sang "Where the Streets Have No Name," some unidentified thief or thieves are on a street-sign stealing spree that is making parts of town exactly that.

Sen. Louis P. DiPalma and Sen. John J. Tassoni Jr. have been named to a special Senate commission that will study municipal pensions and report its findings to the Senate by the conclusion of the 2010 legislative session.

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Some businesses in downtown Woonsocket say they will file claims for financial losses with National Grid after a transformer problem denied them power for nearly 24 hours last week.

The north and southbound lanes in one section of Route 146 will be closed for five nights, starting Sunday, for demolition of the 50-year-old Great Road Bridge.

Rhode Island filmmaker's Timothy Williams' feature-length independent comedy, Herbeast Comes to Life, was screened twice earlier this week at the Strasbourg International Film Festival in France.

A massive power outage left several downtown businesses without electricity Thursday, causing employees of The Times to evacuate the building as smoke billowed from a manhole on the sidewalk.