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There will be a screening of the film “Optics of Aging” at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 5, at the Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St. The 2024 documentary reveals the beauty of aging through five Rhode ...
Reed, a Jamestown resident and West Point graduate who served as a U.S. Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne, criticized Trump as “an insecure despot,” for using the armed forces as “props.” ...
The town council is moving forward with plans to improve the RV campground at Fort Getty by hiring a landscape architect to consider parking, access, lighting, drainage, buffers, undersized lots and ...
There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the arrival of 12 affordable, accessible apartments at 2 Hammett Court at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 23. The event will include tours of the ...
The remaining 70 spots represent on-street parking on Narragansett Avenue (from Clinton to Conanicus) and Conanicus Avenue (from Knowles Court to Union Street). The amended ordinance also increases ...
Customers connected to the municipal water system are prohibited from irrigating their lawns with the public utility through Sept. 15. The annual prohibition is automatically triggered June 15. It ...
A pregnant skate and comb jellies are among the underwater denizens of Rhode Island that have taken temporary residence on land at Beavertail State Park. The Beavertail Aquarium opened for the season ...
If the article in The Jamestown Press on last week’s financial town meeting in any way reflects the word on the street, the meeting once again has shown the shortcomings of the town’s budget process.
A proposed arcade on Narragansett Avenue has taken another step toward reality. The planning commission, during a public hearing June 4, approved a change-of-use request from retail to arcade for the ...
The police department is alerting Jamestown residents about a public alert issued by the state following a surge in fraudulent text messages claiming to be from the Rhode Island Division of Motor ...
The May 29 edition of The Jamestown Press reported on a request to the town council to amend an ordinance that would make it illegal for homeowners to discharge water from their yards onto municipally ...
The story of an Italian teenager who documented Eucharistic miracles through his website is being told through an exhibit at St. Mark Church. “Miracles of the Eucharist” details the work of a British ...