Corey Plante

Pawtucket

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Staff Writer for The Valley Breeze and Gaming/Entertainment Freelance Writer and Editor

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Articles

Landmark honors EMS workers, debuts new cardiac lab with emotional reunion

1 week ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

WOONSOCKET – North Smithfield resident Bruce Waterson and his wife Caroline enjoyed a romantic evening on Dec. 15, 2024. They went out to dinner and saw the Boston Pops before returning to their home on High Point Drive. But at around 1 a.m., 70-year-old Bruce began vomiting every hour. By 5 a.m., the chest pain started. At 6:07 a.m., North Smithfield EMS responded to the Watersons’ home and found Bruce in bed, short of breath but with no major risk factors aside from high cholesterol.
Burrillville High honors Class of 2025’s top students

1 week ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

BURRILLVILLE – Burrillville High School has announced Alex Pristawa valedictorian and Emily Cook salutatorian for the Class of 2025, recognizing two students staff say have left a unique mark on their school community. Alex Pristawa: Calm, curious, and future-focusedPristawa, son of Steve and Kim Pristawa, graduates with a weighted GPA of 4.0741 and a near-perfect academic record.
Little Free Library brings color, books to Pothier Elementary

1 week ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

WOONSOCKET – A new Little Free Library has arrived inside the Pothier Elementary School, thanks to the initiative of librarian Denise Phillips. A Little Free Library is a small, publicly accessible book-sharing box where anyone can take or leave a book, part of a global movement to promote literacy and community connection. The book-sharing station at Pothier was one of 200 selected through a national giveaway from the Little Free Library nonprofit.
NSHS senior makes a splash with swim team proposal

1 week ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

NORTH SMITHFIELD – After eight years in the water with the Woonsocket Whalers and a part-time role as a swim instructor at the Woonsocket YMCA, where she swam until the facility closed at the start of last year, North Smithfield High School senior Frances Tiner decided it was time to bring her love of swimming home.
Pascoag Spring Splash 2025 dates, vendors, and what's new

1 week ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

BURRILLVILLE – For Bravo Brewing and other Main Street fixtures, the Fountain Square Spring Splash isn’t just a festival, it’s one of the busiest and most important nights of the year. This Saturday, May 31, from 4 to 9 p.m., downtown Pascoag will come alive again for the biannual event drawing thousands to food, drink, and Big Nazo puppets. Though this is technically the 3rd annual Spring Splash, the village festival also has an iteration in the fall.
North Smithfield Police Explorers win gold at Stations Day

1 week ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

NORTH SMITHFIELD — Despite limited years of experience between them, North Smithfield Police Explorers Benjamin Tessier, Nathaniel Simpkins, and Shawn Duquette emerged as top performers at this year’s Stations Day, a statewide event designed to simulate high-pressure law enforcement scenarios for youth. The trio took first place in two team categories: Officer Down/Crime Scene Investigation and Accident Investigation. Tessier also took first place in Top Shot.
Bellingham board hears new tribal testimony as NECC plan evolves

1 week ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

BELLINGHAM, Mass. – Bound Road in Woonsocket may be a dead end, but there’s an unmarked hiking trail that leads north. About 30 paces in and to the left, a handmade sign nailed to a tree reads: “Mishanegitaconett – Pokanoket Land.”By the time one reaches Bellingham, that area is part of a proposed 800-unit, age-restricted development by New England Country Club (NECC) Holdings, land that tribal historians say was never legally relinquished.
Water worries: Free testing underway after chemicals found in North Smithfield water

1 week ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

NORTH SMITHFIELD – After discovering elevated levels of forever chemicals in drinking water at the Primrose Fire Station late last year, the Rhode Island Department of Health is now offering free well testing to residents within a quarter-mile radius of the facility.
Woonsocket’s long-delayed 2023 audit nears completion

2 weeks ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

WOONSOCKET — Nearly a year and a half after the fiscal year ended, the FY2023 audit for the city of Woonsocket is complete. Though the draft has yet to be finalized, auditors presented it to the City Council last Monday to discuss some findings. The audit, which was originally due by Dec. 31, 2023, was significantly delayed following the resignation of the city’s previous auditor in May 2024.
Blackstone officials poised for 23 percent raises ahead of annual town meeting

2 weeks ago | valleybreeze.com | Corey Plante

BLACKSTONE, Mass. – Voters will gather for the annual town meeting next Tuesday, May 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Molony-Sullivan Auditorium to act on 35 warrant articles, including the town’s fiscal year 2026 budget, multiple capital projects, and several citizen petitions.