West Greenwich News

When Valerie Zuercher was elected to the Exeter-West Greenwich School Committee last November, she worried about a potential conflict of interest -- she belonged to the teachers union in neighboring South Kingstown.

Water-logged Southern New Englanders, who haven't seen much of a summer yet because of continuous rainfall, were not expecting to get much of a break Thursday.

Thursday's word of the day: Noachian. As in flood. The sky bellowed. The lightning crackled.

Rhode Island's drinking water supplies should become more dependable over time, thanks to a complicated piece of legislation that appears destined for passage soon by the General Assembly .

Part treasure hunt, part chess game on the hoof, part cross-country race, orienteering is coming to Rhode Island Saturday when the New England Orienteering Club has a meet in the Big River Management Area in West Greenwich.

Cartons of Rhody Fresh milk in a cooler at McQuade's Marketplace in Jamestown. The Rhode Island Dairy Farms Cooperative, which sells locally produced milk under the Rhody Fresh brand, is adding four new local dairy farms to its membership, bringing the total to nine.

Seven-year-old Morgan Bates was doing homework with her brother in the kitchen of her family's first-floor apartment at 11 LaChance St.

The state police charged state Rep. Raymond J. Sullivan Jr., D-Coventry, with drunken driving, saying the House deputy majority leader was unable to recite the alphabet after troopers stopped his car on Route 95 early Wednesday.

State police arrested a Rhode Island state lawmaker early Wednesday on suspicion of drunken driving, the NBC 10 I-Team reported.

Stop & Shop markets are offering reusable "Earth Day 2009" grocery bags for 99 cents this week.

Here are the eight applications for charter schools in the pipeline - seven for new schools and one for an existing school to expand: Two proposals have already received "preliminary approval" from the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education: the Segue Institute, a middle school in Central Falls; and the Urban League Middle College ...

Six people taken to the Hospital following a rollover at the corner of Victory Highway, and Sharpe St.

Q: You can take an additional standard deduction for real estate taxes on your 1040 form.

The lost boys will be found in West Greenwich soon. The Exeter-West Greenwich Drama Club is performing Peter Pan for six shows from March 25th-29th. Captain Hook and his band of nasty pirates will be after Peter in Neverland at the Exeter-West Greenwich High School.

The Woonsocket police arrested six adults in three apartment buildings on Diamond Hill Road at 5 a.m. yesterday, capping a drug investigation that began in November.

The man whose skeletal remains were found Saturday in the Big River Management Area in West Greenwich had a prison record, it was learned today.

From its start, the University of Rhode Island's biomanufacturing program has churned out workers for the region's biotechnology companies, setting up laboratories with miniature bioreactors and filtration ...

Human remains found in West Greenwich have been tentatively identified, according to a Department of Health spokeswoman.

The Office of State Medical Examiners has tentatively identified, based on circumstantial information, the skeletal remains found in the Arcadia Park in West Greenwich, Rhode Island as Gerald Cox, a 47-year-old ...

The state's medical examiner has identified the remains of a victim found dead in West Greenwich.