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Effort to recall Council members on hold pending ordinance workshops

2 days ago | independentri.com | Bill Seymour

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — The recall vote for three Narragansett Town Council members is suspended, but not washed away yet in goodwill from a council attempting to appease upset voters by having workshops on disputed zoning changes. “The recall may be suspended, but it’s not off the table,” said Gail Scowcroft, organizer of a petition to remove council members James Durkin, Donna Vignali, and Jason Colonies from office.
Theatre By The Sea’s ‘Always ... Patsy Cline’ a tender tribute to singer

2 days ago | woonsocketcall.com | Bill Seymour

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — It could have been billed as a Patsy Cline concert, the “Always…Louise” musical, or simply “Louise and Patsy.” But Patsy alone it wasn’t. This first show of Theatre By The Sea’s summer 2025 season — “Always…Patsy Cline” — brought, through the voice of Meagan Lewis-Michelson, 36, poignant echoes of the country singer from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Theatre By The Sea’s ‘Always ... Patsy Cline’ a tender tribute to singer

3 days ago | ricentral.com | Bill Seymour

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — It could have been billed as a Patsy Cline concert, the “Always…Louise” musical, or simply “Louise and Patsy.” But Patsy alone it wasn’t. This first show of Theatre By The Sea’s summer 2025 season — “Always…Patsy Cline” — brought, through the voice of Meagan Lewis-Michelson, 36, poignant echoes of the country singer from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
NK to delay seeking RIDE approval of middle school plan

3 days ago | ricentral.com | Bill Seymour

North Kingstown School Superintendent Kenneth Duva announced this week that the town will be delaying a request for state approval of a revised plan for the new Wickford Middle School and improvements at all other schools until September. School Committee members have planned this week to discuss the delay that followed a May 21 meeting with Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) officials.
State officials will close local homeless shelter

3 days ago | ricentral.com | Bill Seymour

State officials, while pulling the funding for a Kingston homeless shelter, are not responding to questions about their reasons for closing it. This shelter opened in late February 2024 in a collaboration with the state, University of Rhode Island and the Westerly Area Rest Meals (WARM) Inc. that provides shelter and meals to the homeless throughout southern Rhode Island, including the Welcome House on North Road.
Broad Rock Middle School therapy dog more than man’s best friend

3 days ago | independentri.com | Bill Seymour

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Meet Bentley, the therapy dog at Broad Rock Middle School. This Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is making rounds at various school events and other schools, too, as South Kingstown’s first therapy dog. By all accounts, the two-and-a-half-year-old dog — also known as Lord Bentley — is quite a hit.
State officials will close local homeless shelter

3 days ago | independentri.com | Bill Seymour

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — State officials say plans to close a temporary emergency shelter in Kingston will proceed in order to make way for the repurposing of the building to serve as a group home for individuals with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities.
NK to delay seeking RIDE approval of middle school plan

3 days ago | independentri.com | Bill Seymour

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — North Kingstown School Superintendent Kenneth Duva announced this week that the town will be delaying a request for state approval of a revised plan for the new Wickford Middle School and improvements at all other schools until September. School Committee members have planned this week to discuss the delay that followed a May 21 meeting with Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) officials.
Johnnycake Center for Hope set to unveils its long-awaited Youth Center this weekend

1 week ago | independentri.com | Bill Seymour

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — John Wardle has lived in South Kingstown for many decades and knows its rhythms and how a new youth center can help. “We donated to the youth center because we believe children should have a fun, free, safe, warm, enriching place to go and be themselves,” said Wardle, who, with his wife, Lynn, made a donation to help make that center a reality. “That used to be the Guild, but not anymore.
About South County: DEM showing its lack of transparency on beach renovation project

1 week ago | independentri.com | Bill Seymour

Ever get the classic runaround from a state agency or some bloated bureaucracy? Vague answers, shifting timelines, and the distinct sense they’re doing you — the public or customers they serve — a favor. That was my recent brush with the state Department of Environmental Management — a group known to leave permit-seekers gritting their teeth. Except I wasn’t asking for a permit. I was asking, on the public’s behalf, why a prime summer beach is being sliced, fenced, and opened late.