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3 days ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
Tiverton School Department officials have narrowed their search for a new superintendent to three candidates, as outgoing school head Peter Sanchioni’s departure looms. Laryssa M. Doherty, Ed. D., Christopher J. Haskins, and Michael Whaley, Ed. D., were selected from a field of 24 applications, and will interview with members of the school committee in the coming weeks.
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1 week ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
Town services and municipal employees could be on the chopping block if residents don't approve a 12 percent tax increase at the Tuesday, June 17 Financial Town Meeting, Little Compton's town solicitor told members of the General Assembly Wednesday. Solicitor Anthony DeSisto made the prediction while testifying alongside town council member Robert Mushen before the House Committee on Municipal Government and Housing.
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1 week ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
Tiverton resident Nick Wolfe never got a chance to meet his grandfather, United States Navy Quartermaster Seaman Ronald Wolfe. And Nick’s mother, Barbara, likewise never got to meet her father — he died, along with all 128 of his fellow crew members, in one of the nation’s greatest military tragedies, when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher was lost at sea during trials 200 miles off the coast of Cape Cod in 1963.
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1 week ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
In a room filled with ice cream sundaes, veterans of wars ranging from World War 2 onwards met last Friday with some of Colt Andrews Elementary School’s 5th graders to exchange notes and converse after being pen pals throughout the year. The meetings took place in the Rhode Island Veterans Home’s Cafeteria, where groups of students sat down with the veterans they had been speaking to over the past few months.
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1 week ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
Over a decade ago, Alex Watrous, then a student at Mt. Hope High School, started a high school film night with his brother Elisha that aimed to allow students to show off their filmmaking skills. Now, as a teacher at Mt. Hope, he is helping students bring the film night back for this next generation. Watrous is working with a senior, Summer Reinhart, on doing a new student film night.
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2 weeks ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia |Ted Hayes
Faced with a $1 million structural deficit years in the making but not widely recognized until very late in the game, Little Compton officials are slashing spending proposed for the 2025-26 fiscal year and have asked for state approval to increase this coming fiscal year’s tax levy by 12 percent — three times the yearly 4 percent increase allowed under state law.
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2 weeks ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
Town council members were expected Tuesday to discuss and possibly vote on removing two controversial questions on the future of the Odd Fellows Hall and Fire Barn from Little Compton's upcoming Town Meeting warrant. Citing budgetary concerns and the unpopularity of a plan to convert part of the Odd Fellows Hall to senior affordable housing, council members were scheduled to discuss, and possibly vote on, the removal of articles four and five from the Tuesday, June 17 town meeting warrant.
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3 weeks ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
After four years with no tuition increases, out-of-town parents who enroll their children in Little Compton for the first time this coming school year will pay more than those who currently enroll their children, after the school committee voted 4-1 to increase out-of-town tuition for new students by 3 percent, or $180. Currently, families who send children to Wilbur & McMahon pay $6,000 per student per year in a program that brought in about $200,000 in revenue this school year.
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3 weeks ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
State and town legislatures met at Independence Park Tuesday morning to advocate for the passage of House bill H-6252, which would formally establish the Resilient Rhody Infrastructure Act. The bill would allow the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank to establish the Resilient Rhody Infrastructure Fund, which would provide financial and technical assistance to local governments for resiliency and stormwater abatement projects.
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3 weeks ago | 
eastbayri.com | Christian Silvia
Posted 5/13/25While the numbers are subject to change, members of the Tiverton Town Council met Monday night and agreed on a preliminary combined town and school budget of $60.62 million, an increase of $1.89 …This item is available in full to subscribers. Please log in to continue If you'd like to post an event to our calendar, you can create a free account by clicking here.
