Valley Falls News

Joseph Majkut, who lived in the Valley Falls neighborhood of Cumberland, was walking west across the busy street that is one of the main roads through that section of town, Police Sgt.

Paula Lopes stopped by a liquor store on Route 6 just over the Rhode Island state line Monday at midmorning to pick up a lottery ticket, part of her regular weekly routine.

An early morning water main break near the intersection of Pawtucket Avenue and Sterling Street has affected six homes Monday and left those residents without water until perhaps mid-afternoon. It's the second water main break for the Pawtucket Water Supply Board since Friday, when a 24-inch water main on Grotto Avenue broke, causing a drop in ...

"There have been eagles seen in the Valley Falls Marsh along the Blacksione River," writes John Marsland, vice president of the Blackstone River Watershed Council / Friends of The Blackstone.

Firefighters from Central Falls and Pawtucket are tackling a three-alarm blaze in a complex of commercial buildings at 444 Roosevelt Ave .

Registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters in District 1 will vote in a special Democratic primary on Tuesday to nominate a candidate to run for a vacant seat on the Town Council.

These 7th-grade students of Jenks Junior High School science teacher Tammie McNaught are among the students raising dozens of brook trout for release into the Blackstone River next spring.

Three candidates have filed intentions to run in a special primary for the Town Council seat that opened following the resignation of Antonio J. Albuquerque, who stepped down about a week after he pleaded no contest in District Court to misdemeanor domestic assault.

" The United States Postal Service is still considering closing the Valley Falls post office, according to the latest list of branches the agency may shut down.

Hoping to reduce Cumberland Rescue Service overtime costs currently running about $29,000 a month, Mayor Daniel McKee will begin advertising immediately, he told The Breeze Friday, for per-diem rescue service employees.

CUMBERLAND a ' The United States Postal Service is still considering closing down Cumberlanda TMs Valley Falls post office, according to the cash-strapped agencya TMs latest list of branches it may shut down.

Mercer Funeral Home of Holton and Valley Falls will celebrate its 75th anniversary with an open house Sunday in Holton.

By JOSEPH FITZGERALD CUMBERLAND - Joined by Mayor Daniel McKee, members of the American Postal Workers Union Local 0387 will be walking an informational picket line Friday to protest the possible closing of the Valley Falls Post Office on Broad Street.

Monday marked the first day of classes for a new kind of regional public school in Rhode Island - the mayoral academy - and the first day for Constance Giblin, one of eight kindergarten teachers at the new school, Democracy Prep Blackstone Valley.