East Greenwich News

OLD BANK IN TOWN: Coastway Community Bank executives and local official celebrate the conversion of Coastway from a credit union to a mutual savings bank yesterday.

Plan on seeing a lot of Rhode Island's junior senator this week. Sheldon Whitehouse has launched a media blitz focused on health care.

After years of trying, advocates pushing to make Rhode Island one of the few states that allow adoptees access to their original birth certificates won a major victory in the state House of Representatives.

As Rhode Island moves to expand its renewable energy market, lobbyists at the Statehouse are finding the debate provides a different form of green power: cash.

The House on Tuesday passed open-records legislation with a last-minute amendment that eliminated what supporters had called "a huge advance" - a requirement that initial police narrative reports on arrests be made public.

When she began studying The Station site six summers ago, anthropologist Randi Scott expected that the memorials created after the nightclub fire that killed 100 people would be abandoned.

A former Narragansett fisherman who now works as an engineer for the Block Island ferry was arraigned on drunken-driving charges Tuesday in connection with an early-morning crash that left a coworker dead and two women injured.

Victor Mercurio, director of secondary education, will be leaving the Warwick School Department to become East Greenwich Superintendent of Schools.

ON THE MARCH: St. Francis School graduates file into the church for Tuesday's commencement ceremonies.

Rhode Island's push to expand its renewable energy market has provided plenty of green for Statehouse lobbyists.

Most businesses hoping to come to Rhode Island don't get to make their pitch from the speaker's rostrum.

Todaya s Hillsgrove Methodist Church houses the Open Table of Christ, United Methodist Church and the Zion Korean Methodist Church.

Democratic Party fundraiser Mark S. Weiner and his wife, L. Susan Weiner, of East Greenwich, have sued Carnegie Tower Development Co.

There was a time when being a moviemaker meant first having to be a hotshot Hollywood player.

Michael Zajac, principal of Archie R. Cole Middle School for nearly two years, is leaving to assume the principalship of Scituate Middle School.

The Judicial Nominating Commission on Wednesday completed its marathon run of selecting finalists for state court vacancies, picking five candidates to fill a Superior Court seat vacated by the retirement of Judge Mark A. Pfeiffer.

For the ninth year in a row, the Financial Town Meeting failed to achieve a quorum, allowing the Town Council's $47-million budget for fiscal 2010 to become law by default.

Members of the East Greenwich Town Council Monday night questioned why consultants and members of its Fields Construction Committee neglected to check into potential water irrigation problems before beginning to build new playing fields near the high school.

The biggest question about Tuesday night's Financial Town Meeting is, "Will it be held?" If 250 voters come out at East Greenwich High School and stick around long enough to pass a budget, it will mark the first time the annual meeting has had a substantive vote since 2000.

An administrator in the Warwick school system and the superintendent in Scituate, Mass., are the two finalists for the superintendent's position in East Greenwich, the chairwoman of the School Committee announced Sunday night.