Slatersville News

Last month, at NeoCon World's Trade Fair in Chicago, two firms earned a nod for their design-savvy use of Fortune Contract carpet.

“It's really hard to bury the sister you loved with the man who killed her.”

The cemetery of St. John the Evangelist parish sits on a hillside, overlooking the Slatersville Reservoirs, just south of the white-steeple church. via Providence Journal

Among the winners of Rhode Island's 2008 Preservation Awards are the Art Moderne Rosedale Landing condominium complex; the nonprofit arts group AS220's Dreyfus Hotel; and Indian Spring and a Newport mansion ... via Providence Business News

“The thought was perhaps getting out of downtown Providence”

Since 2001, when Rhode Island increased its historic preservation investment tax credit to 30 percent, many of Rhode Island's mill buildings have been rehabilitated, and many are used today as housing. via The Providence Journal

A REMARKABLY POIGNANT event occurred earlier this month at a time and in a place that few anticipated. via Providence Journal

“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

Town officials and residents Thursday were given their first look at a plan to build a hydroelectric power station on the Slatersville Reservoir. via The Call

“Your vote has been a clear and responsible statement that your neighbors matter.”

Voters overwhelmingly approved a $21-million expansion of the town's sewer system in yesterday's referendum, but even more decisively said no to a new town library. via Providence Journal

“They take care of their grandmother while I'm out”

Two elementary school students received a surprise tribute Tuesday, when they were honored for calling 9-1-1 after their grandmother fell down a flight of stairs this past summer. via The Call

“This was a one-time opportunity”

Voters on Tuesday voiced a strong "No" to plans to build a new Public Library on the grounds of the Slatersville Mill complex, a decision that appears likely to keep the library at is present Main Street, ... via The Call

“The next time you enter you bathroom to indulge in a long soak in the tub, think of the family across the street who must limit their shower to no more than two minutes”

There's a $21-million proposal on the special referendum ballot next Tuesday that supporters say will help bring the town together. via Providence Journal

“We need to know where the water is going and how to capture it”

Water consumers in town are getting hit with a temporary water rate increase necessitated by approximately 12 million gallons of unaccounted-for water that was somehow lost in the water distribution system over ... via The Call