Manville News

The state Supreme Court has declined to hold a Manville couple liable for the injuries of a young woman who claimed she and her boyfriend were goaded into overindulging in alcohol at the couple's home before ...

According to Police Chief Brian Sullivan, the Wedin brothers have had a history of arguments escalating into calls to the station, but never anything quite like this.

Open seats have touched off free-for-alls in two local state representative districts, with six candidates vying to replace Roger Picard in Woonsocket's District 51 and five hopefuls looking to succeed Rick ...

At Joe Figueira's house, it's a rite of spring: you get up early, eat breakfast and load up the kids in the family vehicle to claim your spot on Smithfield Avenue.

When he was a boy growing up in Manville, Robert Leclerc would hear stories about Capt.

Parade-lovers will line up along Smithfield Avenue in Lincoln on Monday morning, May 26 for a five-division celebration in honor of the nation's veterans.

“Simply put, the taxpayers who opposed the budget as it was will have to pay an (extra) $102 on a $300,000 home.”

Late Monday night, Lincoln's residents voted, but not in resounding fashion, for an additional $500,000 in the schools budget for 2008-09. Before the FTM, the recommended schools allotment sat at $47.8 million; ... via The Pawtucket Times

Environmental regulators are trying to re-establish river herring in the Blackstone River near Lincoln. via WPRI-TV East Providence

The Rhode Island Advisory Commission on Historical Cemeteries Cleanup: To volunteer, call Evelyn Wheeler, commission chairman at 789-3503 or eviewhee@verizon.net . Cleanup of the cemetery at the Knightsville ... via Providence Journal

Police in Lincoln are investigating what appears to be a series of mail box thefts. via WPRI-TV East Providence

Looking for any relatives of Edward Duggan born to Edmund Duggan and Margaret Regan on 5/23/1866 in Shanbally, Tipperary, Ireland. via Cousinconnect.com

“There's no money to back up that ordinance.”

Even before John Flynn became a Town Council member back in January, he promised those he represented in Lonsdale he would fight for repair of the district's sidewalks. via The Pawtucket Times

“Buggy Ride", or Susan Shea's handwritten - two pages and not a cross-out to be seen - account of the new St. James School, complete with its original construction-paper cover. "I thought Gene was only going to use the pictures”

More than a hundred people gathered at the Museum of Work & Culture yesterday afternoon to commemorate the heritage of Catholic schools in Rhode Island: the Catholic faith, the ethnic groups that brought it ... via Providence Journal

“More than 200 Rhode Islanders testified at the five public hearings we held around the state or mailed us their suggestions”

When Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis discovered a couple of months back that the Town Council here had initiated a Saturday special election concerning Twin River expansion, it caught his attention. via The Call

“We get enough singles, we get some more runs.”

It's a glorified, high-technology water wheel, not a Trojan horse. That was the message representatives of the group that wants to build a small hydroelectric generator next to one of the Slatersville dams ... via Providence Journal

A 2-mile section of the Blackstone River Bikeway is set to open. The section begins at the current northern terminus of the path in the Manville section of Lincoln and ends at the Woonsocket Water Treatment ... via WLNE-TV Providence

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Bonner The Village Inn, Narragansett, was the setting Sept. 2 for the wedding of Alyssa Dube of Narragansett and Jerry Bonner of Narragansett. via Providence Journal

Evangeline Robillard WOONSOCKET- EvangelineT. Robillard age 99 of Victor St. Woonsocket died Saturday October 20, 2007 in the Holiday in Manville. via The Call

Visiting Nurse Service of Greater Rhode Island will host a flu shot clinic Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Coventry Credit Union, Railroad Street, Manville. via Providence Journal

“Traffic would only be worse on a Saturday”

When John Flynn discovered that only four polling sites would be open for the Nov. via The Call