Valley Falls News

Hoping to reduce Cumberland Rescue Service overtime costs currently running about $29,000 a month, Mayor Daniel McKee will begin advertising immediately, he told The Breeze Friday, for per-diem rescue service employees.

CUMBERLAND a ' The United States Postal Service is still considering closing down Cumberlanda TMs Valley Falls post office, according to the cash-strapped agencya TMs latest list of branches it may shut down.

Mercer Funeral Home of Holton and Valley Falls will celebrate its 75th anniversary with an open house Sunday in Holton.

By JOSEPH FITZGERALD CUMBERLAND - Joined by Mayor Daniel McKee, members of the American Postal Workers Union Local 0387 will be walking an informational picket line Friday to protest the possible closing of the Valley Falls Post Office on Broad Street.

Monday marked the first day of classes for a new kind of regional public school in Rhode Island - the mayoral academy - and the first day for Constance Giblin, one of eight kindergarten teachers at the new school, Democracy Prep Blackstone Valley.

The Valley Falls post office branch in Cumberland is one of hundreds of stations and branches the U.S. Postal Service is considering for consolidation or closing, but a regional Postal Service spokeswoman said the process is just in the review stage.

The Valley Falls post office branch in Cumberland is one of hundreds of stations and branches the U.S. Postal Service is considering for consolidation or closing, but a regional Postal Service spokeswoman said the process is just in the review stage.

Pawtucket residents faced some tough times 17 years ago, and they weren't the only ones.

The Valley Falls post office branch in Cumberland is one of hundreds of stations and branches the U.S. Postal Service is considering for consolidation or closing, but a regional Postal Service spokeswoman said the process is just in the review stage.

" The U.S. Postal Service said today it lost $2.4 billion in the quarter that ended June 30 as mail volume declined 14 percent, just days after the agency said it may be forced to close hundreds of facilities.

Fire crews have brought an early morning fire in a two-story building at 150 Mendon Rd.

With changes in the pension system for state employees and teachers, reductions in human service programs, hikes in taxes on capital gains and gasoline, some perhaps temporary patches with the fiscal equivalent of Band-aids and chewing gum, and an infusion of nearly a quarter billion dollars of federal stimulus money, the House Finance Committee ...

Paddlers and pedalers are celebrating the arrival of summer with guided kayak and bike trips organized by Rhode Island conservation groups.

The firefighter was treated on scene, according to Lt. Stephen Duda of the Cumberland police.

Around 19:30 on Saturday evening Cumberland Police arrived at Hopkins Terrace and Kelly Street and reported fire in a 1.5 story dwelling.

Police say the fire broke through the roof of a home at 35 Hopkins Terrace, in the Valley Falls section, around 7:15 pm.

The state in April increased the excise tax on cigarettes by $1, to $3.46 a pack, the highest in the country.

On a 38-33 vote, the House of Representatives once again passed legislation that would require all employers in the state to check the immigration status of new employees to ensure they are eligible to work.

With only a few dissenting exceptions, local parents, educators and community leaders turned out to support the establishment of a mayoral academy charter school as an alternative to the education public schools are currently offering.