Exeter News

Rhode Island veterans groups will mark Veterans Day this weekend with a wreath-laying ceremony at the state Veterans Cemetery.

A GROWING FUTURE: Representatives from the Audubon Society of Rhode Island and Independence Financial Partners teamed up to plant 100 sugar maples throughout the state.

Somebody whispers. Somebody screams. Nobody is in the room with you, but somebody touches you.

Volunteer Leo Fox, of South Kingstown, installs memorial bricks at the Living Memorial erected by the Rhode Island National Guard Retirees Association at the Veterans Cemetery in Exeter.

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

Everybody talks a good game about bringing local food to market, but it's nothing short of amazing what Farm Fresh Rhode Island is doing to make it happen here.

A horse in Exeter that had Eastern equine encephalitis has been euthanized. State environmental officials say the 5-month-old animal was put down on Sunday after displaying neurological symptoms of the disease, and positive test results for EEE were confirmed Friday.

Instead of solving the problem, state lawmakers eager to win jobs simply decreed three years ago that Amgen would get its water.

For more than 300 years, Rhode Island has had some kind of a state militia, what today we call the Rhode Island National Guard.

Joel Pierce Flather, age 68, of Little Compton, died September 16, 2009, in Rhode Island Hospital surrounded by his family.

On the very first day of the school year, 12-year-old Mileena Rodriguez was reminded by President Barack Obama himself that hard work can take you places.

In Paula Torti's little house on Pierce Avenue, a breezeway connects her kitchen to the in-law apartment in the garage where the brother of a former husband lived.

Malfunctions with the water-systems at three schools in the Exeter-West Greenwich Regional Schools have forced the district to issue bottled water to students to drink until state health officials give the OK, Supt.

Solis and Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, will visit the Exeter Job Corps Academy on Tuesday.

20, 2009 file photograph provided by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., right, poses for a picture with his son, Rep.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Journal State House Bureau A member of the Obama cabinet is scheduled to visit Rhode Island Tuesday, part of an effort across 11 states to bring key Washington officials to local educational facilities ...

Rescue crews are on the scene of a fatal accident in Exeter. It happened on Route 2 near Yawgoo Valley Road around 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon.

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is planning a trip to Rhode Island next week to visit an academy that provides training and education to disadvantaged youth.

On Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m., Loren Spears, executive director of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, R.I. will present a slide show of historical and contemporary Native arts at the Warwick Public Library.

Joe Metzen has been studying mushrooms intensively for seven years, and he says, "The more I learn, the less I know." Metzan and Laura Carberry, his colleague at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, are scheduled to present a series of mushroom programs on the mainland and on Prudence Island.