Saunderstown News

PRODUCING RESULTS: Casey Farm grows a wide variety of seasonal produce on its land.

In the woods of Saunderstown, near the tulip poplars and redbud trees that dot his yard, retired fire inspector Lou Chasse II waits in front of a line of beehives stacked on cinder blocks.

WAKEFIELD, RI, May 06, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the past 12 months , unemployment has grown by some 5.3 million people, and the unemployment rate has risen by 3.4 percent.

It's not as well known as Wickford, its quaint neighbor to the north, but the Hamilton Mill Village Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

If you managed to pull yourself away, however briefly, from hammering the hogs at AIG last week - if you managed to turn down your emotional boiler to a reading somewhere below seething cauldron of hate - you might have seen a small piece of news that is good news.

Six-year-old Justin Bossian of Saunderstown is mad about monster trucks. He goes to all the events, wears the T-shirts and knows all the drivers.

Former North Kingstown High School standout Nate Izzo is a freshman outfielder for Boston College, but did not play yesterday.

Some people want to be able to ride their horses on acres of land. Other people want a house by the water.

A 7-year-old boy was killed when fire broke out at a home he was visiting on Earl Street early yesterday, officials said.