WOONSOCKET — Assistant Superintendent of Schools Jenny Chan-Remka couldn’t have been happier this week.
Local News Headlines
NORTH SMITHFIELD — The Town Council’s attempt on Monday to support police officers across the country following Nike Corp.’s endorsement of Colin Kaepernick as a spokesman, will be undone next week after Council President John Beauregard pushed the rewind button on his resolution asking town…
MILLVILLE — Police and Fire Chief Ronald Landry says his decision to lay off one of the town’s two full-time firefighters will not have a detrimental affect on the Fire Department or the safety of town residents and that there will be no change in the way ambulance and emergency medical serv…
Local Sports Headlines
PROVIDENCE — It was a quarter that just wouldn’t end.
BURRILLVILLE — Even the Burrillville boys soccer team is surprised by its start to the season.
In the latest episode of Ocean State Sidelines, sports writers Brendan McGair & Will Geoghegan look ahead to Friday's Division I football showdown between North Kingstown & Bishop Hendricken along with other games in the area. Discussion also centers around college football - URI still ranke…
WOONSOCKET – Welcome to Mount St. Charles and specifically Adelard Arena. It’s Thursday morning and it’s shaping up to be a big day for the school’s tradition-laden hockey program.
Letters to the Editor
On April 27, The Woonsocket Call published a story headlined: “Panel studying state’s energy siting process releases finding.” Both the article and the headline contained false information and fabrications.
Recent press coverage of the inadequacies of the 911 system aroused my interest. As chairman of the Coventry Fire District, and a nurse practitioner, I have a personal stake in protecting my taxpayers and patients. I contacted state Representative Robert Lancia, the source of the initial pre…
Columnists
The youth vote could play a bigger part than ever before in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections, with the potential to transform the political landscape going forward, according to John Savercool, head of the UBS U.S. Office of Public Policy.
In early March, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging again put the spotlight on common fraud schemes directed at America’s seniors at a panel hearing, “Stopping Senior Scams.” At the Senate panel hearing, held in Dirksen Senate Office Building 562, the Committee officially released its…
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