News from the Rhode Island shore, Wakefield to Watch Hill
Charlestown’s council voted to meet with RIDOT about signs and sharrows on Old Post Road, set a Nov. 9 liquor license hearing and is looking for school committee members.
Ellison “Tarzan” Brown won the Boston Marathon in 1936 and 1939 and ran in the 1936 Olympics. A hill on the course got its name from him.
Ninigret led the Eastern Niantic in what is now Charlestown and Westerly in the 1600s. He kept his people out of King Philip’s War.