Council chooses Ceasrine to be town manager
NARRAGANSETT — Months of meetings, interviews and discussions about who should fill the town manager post boiled down to a mere five minutes on Tuesday as the Town Council voted 3-2 to hire Acting Town Manager Jeffry Ceasrine for the job.

It?s a new era for Stewart Nursery
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — A man-made pond was created recently at the corner of Post and Tuckertown roads, just south of Wakefield, and it has sparked a lot of curiosity.

Business owners say code a burden
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The Welcome Market in Peace Dale is a cinder-block building with concrete floors. So why, asks co-owner Joseph Albanese, did it need a $30,000 sprinkler system?

Ferguson in jail as animal cruelty debate continues
CRANSTON — Donald Ferguson, a giant of a man with a black shock of hair, lumbered into the library at the Intake Center at the Adult Correctional Institutions with a guard on a recent March morning. He took a seat at the battered metal table, rubbing his hands together, looking bewildered and sad.