Local composers who dream of having the resources to push their work to the next level have until Aug. 10 to apply for $30,000 fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation. The grants are among the ...

Every year, once warm weather starts to settle in, we brace ourselves for the oncoming onslaught of mosquitoes. So, what do many people do to address this situation? Well, they contact their local ...

After studying about civil rights and influential African Americans for the past month, the fourth-graders at Immaculate Conception Catholic Regional School in Cranston turned the classrooms and ...

Residents and staff of West Shore Health Center, along with family and friends of Mary Grace Yemma, gathered at the center for her 101 st birthday on Monday. Yemma grew up in Rhode Island, then moved ...

The offer is aimed primarily at low-income persons and those who are elderly or handicapped. While the city provides free smoke detectors to those individuals every year, officials are also pushing to ...

Mayor Ken Hopkins brought greetings from the City of Cranston this past Monday night at the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting. (Herald photos by Steve Popiel) Details of the contract between the City ...

The Warwick Beacon’s Athlete of the Week is Bishop Hendricken basketball player Mike Paquette. Paquette saved some of his best work of the winter for the state championship game on Sunday, where he ...

The Marine Trades program at Toll Gate High School received a welcome donation from AirGas, the company that provides shielding gas and materials such as stick rod and MIG wire for the welding program ...

The AAA Northeast office formerly located on Centerville Road near the Route 95 overpass relocated last week to recently renovated space in the former Apponaug Mills saw tooth building near Apponaug ...

Rhodes Elementary School’s PTA hosted a back to school bash. The school has a new principal this year, named Heather Breton. Breton is a veteran teacher in the Cranston schools, as well as a PTA ...

Those who have fond memories of Rocky Point as an amusement park and enjoy it today as a public park can now get plates to show off their attachment. The first 185 of the plates, which had been ...

West Bay Residential Services, which serves 137 individuals, held its second annual Strides for Independence Walkathon Sunday at Goddard Park. The 1K/5K walkathon saw more than 400 people turn out to ...