Prudence Island News

Rescue crews were searching the waters of Narragansett Bay Monday evening for a missing quahogger.

The state Department of Environmental Management has announced that seasonal shellfish openings will take effect at sunrise Tuesday.

The Portsmouth Economic Development Committee delivered an update to the Town Council at their meeting last night, and the while there was significant progress to report on the group's planning work, the economic picture facing the town is challenging, with a projected budget gap growing to nearly $20M by 2020 unless additional revenue streams are ...

R School Finance dept. members Sharon Allan, Georgianna Murphy, Christine Tague.

Joe Metzen has been studying mushrooms intensively for seven years, and he says, "The more I learn, the less I know." Metzan and Laura Carberry, his colleague at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, are scheduled to present a series of mushroom programs on the mainland and on Prudence Island.

Glenn Young, the resident policeman on Prudence Island, jumped at the chance to apply for the job a few years ago because it meant that he and his wife, Jennifer, could realize a way of life they had hoped to experience only in retirement, if ever.

Glenn Young, the resident policeman on Prudence Island, jumped at the chance to apply for the job a few years ago because it meant that he and his wife, Jennifer, could realize a way of life they had hoped to experience only in retirement, if ever.

Glenn Young, the resident policeman on Prudence Island, jumped at the chance to apply for the job a few years ago because it meant that he and his wife, Jennifer, could realize a way of life they had hoped to experience only in retirement, if ever.

Chances are you haven't heard of pannes - super soggy, low-oxygen depressions - but they can comprise as much as 40 percent of northern New England salt marshes.

The shellfish diver whose body was found Tuesday morning by Warwick Fire Department divers has been identified as Louis Ricciarelli Jr., 56.

Global warming may exact a toll on salt marshes in New England, but new research shows that one key constituent of marshes may be especially endangered.

Tomorrow night, the Portsmouth Town Council will meet with the School Committee and hopefully approve a provisional budget, and the big question still up in the air is whether funding will be there to keep the Prudence Island school open.

Transcript: Mr. Chairman, I make a motion that the committee further delay the closing of Prudence Island school for one year only if additional revenue of 44 thousand dollars is received from the Town of Portsmouth.

East Bay residents alerted to increased risk for Lyme disease as higher numbers of infected deer ticks found locally Jim McGaw Molly Coogan , 11, checks 12-year-old Deveney Andrade's back for ticks after their school group completed a hike at the Norman Bird Sanctuary last week.

Portsmouth School Committee chair Dick Carpender and Supt. Susan Lusi face the Town Council.

With a large and vocal contingent of Prudence Islanders sharing their concerns about the closing of their school, the Portsmouth Town Council tonight, by a 5-2 vote, failed to approve the $35M school budget as presented, instead asking the School Committee to meet urgently for further deliberations.

Capt. Joe Bagwell of River Rebel Charters and his clients caught 20 schoolies in less than an hour this morning off Poppasquash Point and Potter's Cove.

Nils Christensen of Ultimate Kayak Fishing caught bass between 12 and 15 pound over the weekend.