Tiverton News

Under the legislation, the maximum daily fine for industrial polluters would rise from $1,000 to $25,000 per violation.

Here are the highlights from news and events that took place in the General Assembly last week.

" Gray's Ice Cream, the 86-year-old sundae shop in Tiverton, has been named one of America's Best Ice Cream Shops by Travel + Leisure magazine.

A limited cleanup of toxic soil on 50 acres in North Tiverton is expected to begin in September and wind up by the end of the year, according to the state Department of Environmental Management.

Dr. Paul Lambert had just retired from his obstetrics practice in Fall River in the late 1980s when he and his wife, Louise Lambert, found their reproduction antique-style Cape Cod house in Tiverton.

The Butterfly Zoo in Tiverton is home to a great variety of butterflies and moths from all parts of the world RICHARD W. DIONNE JR.

After a furious three-day stretch of voting, Smith Hill lawmakers sputtered toward adjournment late Friday night, fighting to whittle down a mountain of bills that remained.

When Alexis Marshall, 29, of Providence, heard that a reporter had come in to the Newbury Comics record store at the Providence Place mall to talk to customers and employees about Michael Jackson, he exclaimed unbidden, "I don't care about Michael Jackson!" Marshall took a moment from stocking the shelves to clarify.

PUPILS across Mid Devon have got their eye on the prize in a glasses frame design competition.

With 400 miles of coastline and an abundance of inland ponds and parks, Rhode Island has plenty of places for eating ice cream.

The knitting-shop tiff in Tiverton did not gather wool long before an image rose to mind from Charles Dickens's novel of 1859, A Tale of Two Cities.

A Tiverton woman has reported her elderly father missing. 74-year-old Aristedes 'Ted' DelValle has been seen since Tuesday at 1:30pm. He is 5'2", 140 lbs, dark skinned, with salt/pepper hair, wearing wire-rimmed glasses.

A woman involved in a Tiverton motorcycle crash has died from her injuries. ABC6 News has more on this story... View Oldest Comments First 12:29 AM Laurene Rapoza wrote ... This was my Aunt Janet.

Sometimes it's really interesting to think about the different ways that different knitters use the craft.

ABC 6 News Story Created: Jun 13, 2009 at 11:45 PM EDT Story Updated: Jun 13, 2009 at 11:45 PM EDT ABC 6 cameras rolling at the scene of a motorcycle accident on Main Rd.

The Department of Transportation has taken quite a few knocks in this space over the years.

Police said a woman admitted to stealing a blind man's cane and turned herself in on Thursday.

Work on the new Sakonnet River Bridge is picking up on both shores and out in the river.

YOUNGSTERS in Tiverton will be getting their skates on as part of a new project being run by the Exeter School Sport Partnership.

The Tiverton Zoning Board is scheduled to hear concerns Wednesday over a sign. NBC 10's Frank Coletta reports.