Bristol News

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

In a temper-filled tempest, the Bristol Fourth of July Committee has barred the Rhode Island Tea Party from taking part in the annual Independence Day parade next year - or any other year.

The First Baptist Church, 34-44 Main St., Wickford, will serve homemade clam cakes, clear clam chowder, grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, French fries and strawberry shortcake Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, in conjunction with the Wickford Art Festival.

BRISTOL _ Against the backdrop of a pristine summer day, American democracy was celebrated Saturday in a pageant of marching, music and patriotic display whose roots are almost as deep as the Republic.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day R.I. Department of Health officials have recommended re-opening Bristol Town Beach in Bristol and Goddard Memorial State Park in Warwick for swimming.

This house at 912 Hope St. in Bristol has a red, white and blue-painted lawn in preparation for the Fourth of July parade.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Projo.com photos / Maria Caporizzo The whole town of Bristol is abuzz in preparation for tomorrow's big Fourth of July parade .

The booze was flowing and, all around him in Times Square, people were whooping it up in a spontaneous celebration of the war's end.

In July 1785, the citizens of this waterfront town assembled to heap praise on their newly minted nation and to thank God for helping them survive a fierce assault by the British during the Revolutionary War.

They're back. And it's not exactly a surprise. After 224 consecutive years, you start to notice a pattern.

Bristol rallied for two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on Monday night and defeated Darlington American 4-3 in the first round of the R.I. District 2 Major Division playoffs.

July 4th is coming up, and so is the big parade in Bristol, RI. Find out everything that's going on at this celebration.

In a reckless act, legislators are rushing through the Rhode Island General Assembly a plan that would effectively lock unsustainable teacher-union contracts in place indefinitely.

This Father's Day many a modern dad will be honored who has gotten more involved in raising the children.

The state Department of Health said Tuesday that three beaches in Rhode Island should be closed to swimming because of high bacteria counts.

Fourth of July Day of the Heroes by Mary Naylor While trees dance and bend in the dark, Folds of black velvet, robe the night, As on a carousel of light, it embarks, Under a shimmering canopy of starry delight.

BRISTOL, R.I.a 'Ten people were sent to a hospital Thursday when they were sickened by an odor that the wind blew into a Bristol school.

Prompted in part by the long-running conflict between the East Providence School Committee and its teachers' union, legislation keeping the terms of expired teachers' contracts in effect until new agreements are reached is moving through the General Assembly .

On Campus Submitted by John Morgan on 2009-06-08.   Seann S. Kalagher of Milford has been appointed assistant dean of student affairs at Quinnipiac University.

Over the past several years, countless proposals to find a new way to pay for Rhode Island's public schools that is both fair and predictable have been kicked around the General Assembly .