Rumford News

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.

Upgrading the city's wastewater treatment facility to comply with environmental regulations and handle the potential full build-out of East Providence's waterfront may cost $70 million.

A fire that broke out suddenly in a Rumford mobile home Friday afternoon spread to a second one and caused slight damage to a third as it was propelled by strong winds, the fire department said.

For most people, last year's federal tax rebates are yesterday's news. But for some, the current tax-filing season offers a second bite of the apple - another chance to claim one of the rebates that resulted from the 2008 federal economic stimulus law.

Kathleen Caffrey has taught fourth grade at Myron J. Francis Elementary School for 22 years and has been a teacher for 36 years.

Mild-mannered news reporter Donna Kenny Kirwan may not be able to change the course of mighty rivers of bend steel in her bare hands.

Like a lighthouse beacon on a stormy night, a diner can be a place of comfort and solace.

R.I.'s Matt McCarthy stars in his 30-second "New Flavor Pitch" commercial for Doritos.

Officers arrested a mother after her 18-month-old child was found wandering in the parking lot of a motel/video bingo parlor in 35-degree weather late Monday night, the Police Department reported Wednesday.

PROVIDENCE In a warehouse room at the U.S. Postal Service's facility at 55 Corliss St., an Iraq war veteran and a mother sat down together at a table early Christmas morning, and began sorting and writing out ...