Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently, Tiverton's deer population is conspiring to cost taxpayers even more money: Deer have run into three of the town's police cruisers in the last 10 days, smacking the front of one and causing minor damage to the sides of...
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
I note something telling and pervasive in the latest anti-TCC assault by Tiverton Democrat stone-thrower Richard Joslin (currently online only; we'll see tonight whether it gets into the Sakonnet Times): I know TCC supporters who are elderly, on fixed income...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
By Gina Macris Journal staff writer TIVERTON -- Deer have run into three of the town's police cruisers in the last 10 days, smacking the...
Boston 1775 (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
On 11 Nov 1774, a man from Tiverton, Rhode Island , wrote a letter to John Hancock , the head of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress that was meeting outside Boston to organize resistance to the royal authorities. Seabury said: While anxiously concerned for the Destresses of Boston & devising Methods for its Relief, the preceeding Inventions occurred to my Mind, about six Weeks ago: which yielded...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
This year's schedule of high school football rivalry games begins in about an hour, when Hope and Central meet at Providence's Conley Stadium in the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
The new season which starts on Sunday will be the first in which sponsorship of horses is allowed.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
A man is airlifted to hospital after being injured in a two-vehicle collision in east Devon, say police.
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
By far the most interesting audio from last night's Tiverton School Committee meeting, in my opinion, was Vice Chairwoman Sally Black's reasoning for voting to approve the teachers' contract (stream, download) because the thought processes are indicative of the flawed...
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
During an interesting conversation, last night, a long-time Tiverton resident suggested to me that members of Tiverton Citizens for Change "don't care about Tiverton." The storyline is that we're newcomers simply looking out for our own financial interests, as opposed...
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Over the past few days, there seems to have been an upward ratchet in the amount of sarcasm. I've certainly been whacked with some in the comments sections and in personal email (especially from Tiverton teachers). This letter in today's...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
NEWPORT -- A Tiverton man arrested last year on sexual assault charges is scheduled to be sentenced today in Newport Superior Court. Robert M. Dallaire,...
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Dear Tiverton School Committee members: It so happened that, the Friday before you'll decide whether to approve the arbitrated teacher contract, my boss called me on the construction site to tell me that, after I take my five paid days...
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Tiverton Citizens for Change is moving forward from its electoral successes: The School Committee should reject a tentative two-year teachers' contract at its meeting Tuesday in light of possible unanticipated cuts in state aid to local schools during the current...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
By Michael Stanton Journal staff writer Domenic Lombardi, 74, a prominent long-time mob associate and West Warwick property owner, is one of four more people...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
The stepmother of a young man who died after absconding from a Devon psychiatric unit says she warned staff not to let him escape.
