Pascoag News

Bristol: The Bristol Veterans Council will have a wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial Garden at the Burnside Building on Hope Street at 8:30 a.m. along with the playing of taps.

A Rhode Island man who claimed he was car-jacked was arrested Wednesday night. According to the North Smithfield Police Department, Seth Desjarlais, 27, of Pascoag, is facing charges that he falsely reported that he was the victim of a car jacking on Pound Hill Road.

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

Bruce Lapierre of Pascoag, R.I., was sentenced to 51 months in prison today for tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service announced.

The first Mini Stock event in the history of Stafford Motor Speedway delivered a dramatic and fairly controversial finish.

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.

The 2nd Annual Rhode Island Energy Expo will be held at the Warwick Mall this Saturday, Sept.

Two teenagers have been charged by police after they took weapons from one of the teen's father's gun safe and fired shots in Pascoag, a village in Burrillville, Tuesday night.

It seemed like an ordinary summer day at the town-owned Spring Lake Recreation Area on Monday, children playing in the water or running up to concession windows for ice cream.

For an electricity supplier, the Pascoag Utility District goes to some unusual lengths to discourage energy use.

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 ...