Prudence Island News

The Portsmouth School Committee gave preliminary approval Tuesday night to a strategic planning program for the school system.

Billy Silvia, skipper of the charter boat Can't Imagine , is concentrating on schools of menhaden between Bristol and Prudence Island.

Kenny Landry found bass between 30 and 40 pounds off Barrington Saturday. Anglers who fished those waters yesterday discovered that the fish had shrunk.

The kitchen looks straight through to the dining area and front living and sitting rooms.

Anglers fishing aboard Neal Vitulo's charter boat, Played For It caught their limts of striped bass by 7:30 a.m. today.

Hush Fly Fishing: Larry Borland with a fly-rod bass on Ninigret Pond. Billy Silvia, skipper of the charter boat Can't Imagine was fishing just east of Prudence Island when I returned his telephone call at 11 ...

If all stays the same, the Prudence Island School in Portsmouth could remain open next year.

Riding aboard a weather-worn tender, we meet up with the Navy's 120-foot torpedo weapons retriever TWR-841 just south of Prudence Island as she makes her way back home.

Fishing aboard the charter boat Can't Imagine , Billy Silvia's unnamed clients caught stripers as large as 28 pounds off Potter Cove this morning on menhaden.

“We took a dozen keepers in 20 minutes this morning”

The tautog bite is "phenomenal," according Billy Silvia, skipper of the charter boat Can't Imagine. via Providence Journal

Roger Williams Park Zoo is the Ocean State's largest tourist attraction, welcoming close to 650,000 visitors annually. via AOL City Guide

“Especially at this hour of the day. You'd have to drive carefully because you'd never know when one might leap out of the woods.”

Late-afternoon shadows darken the boat landing as Joel and Jane Maguire step off the ferry after a day of running mainland errands, and guide their golden retriever into the car for the ride home. via Providence Journal

“We are committed to bringing the costs down.”

Last night, Bob Marshall and Allan Bearse each paid $25 to the owner of a private boat who brought them to town for a School Committee meeting and then returned them to their home on Prudence Island. via Providence Journal

“It's great to have all these volunteers come out”

Brisk December weather did not deter a slew of volunteers, researchers and professors from completing the second phase of a statewide oyster gardening program on Saturday, as they prepared and transferred more ... via Newport Daily News

Volunteers are set to replant more than one million oysters in the hope they'll spread in Narragansett Bay. via WLNE-TV Providence

“That there are two different kinds of plankton.”

Two dozen brightly clad middle school students fan out along the rocky shore of Prudence Island. via Providence Journal

“The decision disregards critical facts in the record and introduces both new data and new concerns on which Weaver's Cover Energy was not provided an opportunity to comment”

The U.S. Coast Guard concluded yesterday that it would be too risky to allow liquefied natural gas tankers to travel through Mount Hope Bay and the Taunton River to a proposed LNG terminal in Fall River, a ... via Providence Journal

“It came slowly and there were holes in it”

A late southerly breeze saved the fleet in yesterday's 29th annual Humphrey Memorial race, the last hurrah of the season for Narragansett Bay racing yachts From the perspective of the Barrington Yacht Club's ... via Providence Journal

“There's hardly anything happening along the beaches”

All the action anglers were enjoying during the recent cold spell died when the weather warmed again. via Providence Journal