West Kingston News

Pink ginger from Wishing Stone Farm in Little Compton on its way to local chefs.

Nettik has led the West Kingston Elementary School through a dramatic transition that began in 2005, when the South Road School closed and children living in a low-income housing project were shifted to her building, doubling the proportion of disadvantaged enrollment to 17 percent.

Kenyon's Grist Mill Harvest Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 24 and 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the mill, 21 Glen Rock Rd., West Kingston, 7-KENYON, kenyonsgristmill.com. The event will feature free admission, parking, mill tours and food samples, including kettle corn popcorn and jonnycakes as well as locally roasted coffee, ...

Rear and side views of the Russian-made Ural Tourist. The motorcycle's origin dates to the late 1930s and Joseph Stalin's efforts to modernize the Russian army.

Kenyon's Grist Mill, 21 Glen Rock Rd., West Kingston, has an End of Summer open house this weekend, Aug.

The commercial district of West Kingston includes the Sosnowski Farm, ready for business, at the junction of Routes 138 and 110.

When the Hera Gallery left its customary perch on Main Street in Wakefield last fall for a time, artist and curator Viera Levitt started thinking of ways to bring art back to the heart of South County.

If the Rhode Island International Film Festival were a monster movie, it would be something like The Blob That Engulfed Delaware .

The body of a shellfisherman was found tethered to his boat early Tuesday off Quonset Point in North Kingstown.

Some of the Lost Boys are actually Lost Girls. To prepare for roles in "Peter Pan" at Theatre By The Sea, three teen actresses had their hair cut and donated it to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program, which turns the hair into wigs for cancer patients.

Caleb Scherer, 2, of West Kingston, is held by his grandmother Sharon Riodan, of Kingston.

While many Rhode Island businesses struggle during the recession, the state's coffee roasters are percolating.

In a state where the official drink is coffee-flavored milk, it should come as no surprise that despite the recession there's a niche in the java-based business world that is perking along nicely.

Sunday morning after very wet Saturday evening camping, we happened upon the Station House on 138 not far from the Kingston Amtrak station.