Prudence Island News

Tomorrow night, the Portsmouth Town Council will meet with the School Committee and hopefully approve a provisional budget, and the big question still up in the air is whether funding will be there to keep the Prudence Island school open.

Transcript: Mr. Chairman, I make a motion that the committee further delay the closing of Prudence Island school for one year only if additional revenue of 44 thousand dollars is received from the Town of Portsmouth.

East Bay residents alerted to increased risk for Lyme disease as higher numbers of infected deer ticks found locally Jim McGaw Molly Coogan , 11, checks 12-year-old Deveney Andrade's back for ticks after their school group completed a hike at the Norman Bird Sanctuary last week.

Portsmouth School Committee chair Dick Carpender and Supt. Susan Lusi face the Town Council.

With a large and vocal contingent of Prudence Islanders sharing their concerns about the closing of their school, the Portsmouth Town Council tonight, by a 5-2 vote, failed to approve the $35M school budget as presented, instead asking the School Committee to meet urgently for further deliberations.

Capt. Joe Bagwell of River Rebel Charters and his clients caught 20 schoolies in less than an hour this morning off Poppasquash Point and Potter's Cove.

Nils Christensen of Ultimate Kayak Fishing caught bass between 12 and 15 pound over the weekend.

The Prudence Island School , the state's only one-room schoolhouse, will close at the end of the current academic year, a victim of continuing pressure on the budget, the School Committee decided Tuesday.

Despite a desire by the state to keep boat moorings out of "pristine" Type I waters, Portsmouth officials remain hopeful that they can avoid a mass mooring move.

At last night's meeting of the Portsmouth school finance subcommittee, the perennial question of what to do with the one-room Prudence Island schoolhouse was met with a new proposal: send the 3 students to the ...

Those with moorings from Black Point to McCorrie's Point along the Sakonnet shore and around two-thirds of Prudence Island may have to ship out to another spot.

An animal that wildlife experts believe to be a coyote attacked a 7-year-old girl on Prudence Island on Dec.

The governor's plan to offset a state budget deficit will have serious adverse consequences on Portsmouth, the Town Council was told Monday night.

By Friday morning, more than 100 Rhode Islanders had told of their encounters with coyotes -- some fanciful some frightening.

The Department of Environmental Management is investigating reports of a coyote attacking a little girl.

An animal that wildlife experts believe to be a coyote attacked a 7-year-old girl on Prudence Island on Dec.

PRUDENCE ISLAND a ' Ten courageous Prudence Islanders braved 34 degree water, much colder air, and a bracing northwest wind for a noontime dash into the baya TMs East Passage at noon on New Yeara TMs Day.

The Portsmouth Fire Department will be the first town in the state to offer Project Lifesaver under a grant from the National Autism Association, the organization announced today in a news release.