Pascoag News

Drivers on Friday once again had few problems negotiating the new stretch of Route 195, according to a state transportation spokesman, as traffic appeared unaffected by a day of wet weather.

A 20-year-old Pascoag driver faces charges after allegedly striking a child who had just gotten off a school bus and leaving the scene of the accident, the police said.

A house off Pond House Road sports three levels of living and a farmer's porch. The Providence Journal / Ruben W. Perez North Smithfield High School and the town's new $30-million middle school and athletic fields are in a complex at the center of the town's rural Primrose neighborhood - where Routes 5 and 104 meet.

"If music is your passion, then promote it. Get people to your shows. I honestly think people don't push themselves enough." That's Army National Guard sergeant Matt Moreau, aka M-1 of rap-rock quartet Mastamindz , talking about the current live scene, having spent more than a decade as lead vocalist/rapper for the Burrillville-based outfit that ...

Although payments will not begin before Aug. 1, the Department of Veterans Affairs began accepting applications for the Post-9/11 GI Bill on May 1. The application form is available online at www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/VBA-22-1990-ARE.pdf . The Post-9/11 bill offers a broad array of educational benefits, including a provision enabling enrollees to ...

WASHINGTON, March 30 DoJ-RI-tax-fraud WASHINGTON , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bruce Lapierre , of Pascoag, R.I. , and Albert Martin and Lorraine Martin , both of Woonsocket, R.I. , were convicted of conspiracy to defraud and tax evasion following 2 hours of deliberations and an 8-day trial before Chief Judge Mary M. Lisi in Providence, R.I. , the ...

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Providence Journal photo / lBob Thayer Crocuses are spotted on the first day of spring at the base of Wolf Hill in the Pascoag section of Burrillville.

Courtesy photo "On the Lake: Life and Love in a Distant Place," a documentary by G. Wayne Miller and David Bettencourt, soon will air on public television stations nationwide and shown at UNH this week.

Do you want clean air, or clean water? Environmental advocates, who want both, say that Governor Carcieri has forced that choice on the General Assembly with his plan to rescue the state's bus system.

Shortly after David Bettencourt basked in the glow of the wild success generated by his first documentary feature, You Must Be This Tall: The Story of Rocky Point Park, which played for several weeks at the ...

Most documentaries are informative, interesting and expertly filmed. But it is rare when raw emotion, the juxtapostion of death and hope of life, and cinematography that brings a viewer into the souls of the ...

A dog belonging to a Pascoag trio today won the Best of Breed award at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Between 16,000 and 17,000 senior citizens and low-income residents in Rhode Island may soon need to pay more for the bus-pass cards they use for reduced fares on Rhode Island Public Transit Authority buses.

The dining room looks out to the living room/kitchen area. Joseph Volgyi, a commercial builder, picked a lot on secluded East Wallum Lake Road in Burrillville for the site of his family's dream house.

A tip from a librarian has led to sex assault and other charges against a Burrillville man.

A public library employee's tip has led to the indictment of a local man for sexual assaults and molestations he allegedly committed more than two decades ago.

The cost of health insurance means many things for Cindy Keable. It means she doesn't close her North Mane Barber Shop in Pascoag during the weeks of July 4th and New Year's as she used to.