Smithfield News

National Grid said spent Thursday cutting off power to 5,000 customers so it could replace copper ground wire stolen from its Smithfield substation, just off Route 44.

The Town Council Tuesday hired a company to study whether there are any locations in town suitable for a wind turbine.

For many residents, trash day this week was a rude awakening as the city, for the first time, refused to pick up their trash unless they put out recycling bins.

Pictured on Friday, Nov. 6, during Benny's grand opening celebration are from left, Matthew Bromberg, Arnold Bromberg, Howard Bromberg, Malcom Bromberg, Judy Rosenstein, Scott Bromberg and Sam Bromberg.

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Though residents have raised concerns about the town's new recycling initiative, called "Waste Not," Recycling Coordinator Donna Kaehler said the state is decreasing the municipal trash caps for cities and towns all over the state, forcing the town to keep plowing through with its "no bin, no barrel" policy.

University of Rhode Island police said Monday they have arrested five students and two other suspects in connection with a break-in at the school's Fine Arts Center last month.

Known labor critic Rep. Douglas Gablinske, D-Bristol, has extended an olive branch to the head of the state's second-largest teachers union.

$5.00 of each Pink Hope Wonder sunglass sold will be donated to nonprofit Keep A Breast Foundation's youth awareness and outreach efforts.

A GROWING FUTURE: Representatives from the Audubon Society of Rhode Island and Independence Financial Partners teamed up to plant 100 sugar maples throughout the state.

Wearing their school uniforms, gym sweats or after-school clothes, students at St.

Rhode Island health officials will begin school-based H1N1 flu clinics on Monday.

All of a sudden, it seems, gas prices are rising again. The average price of regular self-serve gas jumped 13 cents a gallon, to about $2.69 - an increase of 5.1 percent in a single week, according to the results of a survey posted on Monday by the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources.

In "Mary Poppins," feeding the birds was only a tuppence a bag, but for Animal Control Office Scott Goodwin these days, it's more like $7.70. And since Thursday, when he become the caretaker of about 30 parakeets seized as part of a Department of Environmental Management investigation, it's becoming a problem, financially anyway.

The uniquely Rhode Island attitude of "I can't eat there! I've never been there!" is what encouraged Joe Zito and Armand DeLuise to create TV Maitre d', a monthly restaurant show now in its sixth year on local television.

Thermal Reserve, LLC has announced the opening of its first retail display in Rhode Island to exhibit and sell solar energy products.

A Rhode Island man who claimed he was car-jacked was arrested Wednesday night. According to the North Smithfield Police Department, Seth Desjarlais, 27, of Pascoag, is facing charges that he falsely reported that he was the victim of a car jacking on Pound Hill Road.

The police are investigating what they're calling a "car jacking" after a 27-year-old Pascoag man called 911 Tuesday night to say his car had been taken after a suspect broke into his driver's-side window and demanded he exit the vehicle.

Former Lt. Gov. Charlie Fogarty is returning to the State House. But this time, he'll be wearing a lobbyist badge.

It was a last-minute decision to head out to review a restaurant that led me to the remarkable Rocco Italian Osteria.