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4 days ago | 
ricentral.com | Bill Seymour
In this new year with a different local political climate, the Narragansett Affordable Housing Trust Collaborative is trying to broaden its base and repair broken relationships with state officials, said Nick Edwards, panel chairman.
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4 days ago | 
ricentral.com | Bill Seymour
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — No parent ever wants to dial 911 for their child. However, when the unimaginable happens, South Kingstown’s Emergency Medical Service personnel answers that call. “When our child stopped breathing last week – that’s exactly what I had to do. I am so grateful for the quick response and the team’s kindness and compassion for our child and myself,” one parent wrote in a letter of thanks.
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5 days ago | 
independentri.com | Bill Seymour
Harvard University — long a symbol of academic independence — now faces a defining test. So might other colleges and universities, such as the University of Rhode Island, Brown, Roger Williams University and Salve Regina, to name a few local ones. President Trump and his allies, under the guise of fighting antisemitism, are advancing a broader campaign for political and ideological control over higher education.
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5 days ago | 
independentri.com | Bill Seymour
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — In this new year with a different local political climate, the Narragansett Affordable Housing Trust Collaborative is trying to broaden its base and repair broken relationships with state officials, said Nick Edwards, panel chairman.
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5 days ago | 
independentri.com | Bill Seymour
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — No parent ever wants to dial 911 for their child. However, when the unimaginable happens, South Kingstown’s Emergency Medical Service personnel answers that call. “When our child stopped breathing last week – that’s exactly what I had to do. I am so grateful for the quick response and the team’s kindness and compassion for our child and myself,” one parent wrote in a letter of thanks.
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6 days ago | 
independentri.com | Bill Seymour
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Brian Mahoney, former official in the South Kingstown School District, has been appointed to oversee administrative operations of the Union Fire District. He follows former administrator John Blessing, who held the position for the past 13 years and has retired. “It was a great honor to be offered the role by the Union Fire District Board of Wardens,” Mahoney said.
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6 days ago | 
independentri.com | Bill Seymour
Rhode Island could soon overhaul its recycling system under sweeping legislation introduced by Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee (D-South Kingstown, Narragansett). Nonetheless, a coalition of small retailers, grocery stores, liquor stores, labor unions and beverage distributors have joined forces to form “Stop The Rhode Island Bottle Tax” to oppose bottle deposit legislation.
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1 week ago | 
ctmirror.org | Bill Seymour
Harvard University —long a symbol of academic independence— now faces a defining test in refusing President Donald Trump’s demands for federal intrusion into academia. Vulnerable Connecticut colleges and universities include Yale, Wesleyan, the University of Connecticut and its health center-medical school with Jackson Laboratories. Who’s next? Trump may be just getting started.
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1 week ago | 
independentri.com | Bill Seymour
Rhode Island ranks, according to one recent national study, as having a boat crash rate that is the second worst in the nation, just behind Washington, D.C.Kitchel Law, a Washington, D.C.-based personal injury law firm, said it analyzed U.S. Coast Guard national crash data for four years from 2020 through 2023. It found in the 2023 data, the latest from the Coast Guard, that the Ocean State ranked second nationwide in the highest number of crashes per 100,000 boat owners.
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1 week ago | 
independentri.com | Bill Seymour
Price hikes will be hitting households, businesses, and governments alike, with tariffs and rising other costs eating into everyone’s budget. That’s why it’s a relief to see North Kingstown school officials finally making a move to secure $26 million in state reimbursement for the bond covering the proposed $137 million middle school construction. Towns can’t afford to miss opportunities like this — and then pass the loss onto taxpayers. So, better late than never to fix a problem.
