Rumford News

Shipwreck artifacts that help tell their story remain boxed in storage and photos, ceramics, books and other objects have had to be turned away.

9, 2009----Chris Gage, a senior organ performance major at the University of Delaware from Rumford, R.I., will be representing UD on a College Week episode of Wheel of Fortune , scheduled to air Wednesday, Nov.

The Newport County Branch of the NAACP will hold its 90th anniversary awards dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

The city is seeking $93,000 in reimbursement for expenses related to a $7.3-million tax incentive granted last year to the delayed American Locomotive Works project, according to city Director of Planning Thomas E. Deller.

A controversial $141.55-million operating budget for fiscal year 2010 was approved by the City Council in a split vote late Thursday night .

With swastikas and racial epithets being the link, East Providence Police and Fire Department officials are asking for the public's help in gathering information about two fires in Rumford that are now being described as "hate crimes." At a press conference held on Tuesday afternoon, East Providence Fire Chief Joseph Klucznik said that public ...

Fire investigators are seeking the public's help in identifying an arsonist who defaced two buildings in East Providence with swastikas and set them on fire.

A mother and her three young children escaped their Rumford home early Sunday morning after someone spray-painted swastikas and a racial slur on the outside and set it on fire.

Fire investigators are seeking the public's help in identifying an arsonist who apparently defaced two buildings in East Providence with swastikas and lit them ablaze.

Kristen LaVallee of Rumford and Scott Habershaw of Lutz, Fla., were married Oct.

After reader Tony Marro attended Farm Fresh's Wintertime Farmers' Market at the Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket, he noted that the olive bread from Seven Stars Bakery may have been the best bread he'd ever had.

Seven Stars Bakery opens its third cafe Friday, May 22, at Rumford Center. Owners Lynn and Jim Williams started with the 820 Hope St., Providence, store some 8 1/2 years ago and expanded to a second cafe at 342 Broadway, Providence, in 2007.

Three local businesses will receive $420,000 worth of loans from the R.I. Economic Development Corporation's Small Business Loan Fund, the agency said yesterday.

As a boy, Jim Falcon grew up in Rumford, a few blocks from Bridgham Farm, and he used to fish in the James V. Turner Reservoir that bordered the property.