East Providence schools postpone activities
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence School Department announced mid-afternoon Monday, Feb. 3, that due to the current snowstorm all activities this evening have been postponed. For more details on...
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Barrington police: Bank employee stole $100K from elderly woman
A woman who had worked for decades at the Citizens Bank on Willett Avenue on the Riverside-Barrington line is facing police charges after she allegedly stole more than $100,000 from an elderly East...
View ArticlePublic Works delays trash collection in East Providence due to expected snow
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence Public Works Department is delaying the collection of trash in the city beginning with pick-ups scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 5, due to the overnight snowstorm...
View ArticleNo school in East Providence Wednesday
EAST PROVIDENCE — On the heels of earlier announcements by the city’s private and parochial schools, the East Providence School Department cancelled classes for Wednesday, Feb. 5, in anticipation of...
View ArticleEast Providence’s Martin Middle School names second quarter honor students
EAST PROVIDENCE — Mr. Frank DeVall, Principal of Martin Middle School, announces the Honor Roll for the 2013-14 second quarter marking period. Honors are as follows: 1st Honors, “Summa Cum Laude” (all...
View ArticleEast Providence Police ready Citizens Academy program
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence Police Department will be starting a Citizens Police Academy Class this spring. The academy is a 12-week program of weekly 2 to 3 hour meetings. A tentative...
View ArticleRiverside Square informational meeting scheduled for Tuesday night
EAST PROVIDENCE (Updated, Feb. 10, 5 p.m.) — Residents from throughout the city and specifically those close by are urged to attend a Riverside Square neighborhood community meeting Tuesday evening,...
View ArticleEast Providence teen is arrested on child pornography, solicitation charges
NORTH SCITUATE — Members of the Rhode Island State Police Detective Division arrested Andrew Silvestri, 19, of 21 Harris St., East Providence, Sunday, Feb. 9, for the alleged crimes of Indecent...
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Applications for East Providence Citizens’ Scholarships are available
EAST PROVIDENCE — Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation (CSF) of East Providence announces that applications for scholarships for seniors in high school and for undergraduate students enrolled in college,...
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East Providence man pleads guilty to Christmas 2010 murder of Staria Silva
PROVIDENCE — Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced Wednesday, Feb. 12, that Raymond Grundy, 38, with a last known address of Fifth Street in East Providence, pleaded guilty before Superior...
View ArticleAll East Bay schools are closed today
All the East Bay public schools, from East Providence through Aquidneck Island, are closed today due to the winter storm. For a complete listing of closings and cancellations click here…
View ArticleWe’re so far in the hole, I don’t honestly know how to get out
To the editor: There’s an interesting and infuriating Political Scene article in the Monday, Feb. 9, ProJo (Providence Journal) entitled “Big paychecks, new titles for dozens at State House.” The...
View ArticleMayor Briden formally announces re-election run for East Providence City Council
EAST PROVIDENCE — The first of his counterparts to do so formally, Mayor Jim Briden has announced his intention to seek re-election to the East Providence City Council from Ward 1 in the fall of 2014....
View ArticleEast Providence man arrested on synthetic marijuana charges
NORTH SCITUATE — An East Providence man was among seven people arrested on drug distribution charges by members of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force, the Smithfield Police...
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City native Salisbury spurs LaSalle boys’ title; East Providence scores...
PROVIDENCE — Two individual wins by city resident Jack Salisbury helped the LaSalle Academy boys capture the 2014 state indoor track and field team championship Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Providence...
View ArticleSparky’s joint enjoys a much needed resurgence in East Providence
EAST PROVIDENCE — The prospects of Sparky’s Coney Island System restaurant, located in city at the corner of Taunton Avenue and Vine Street, celebrating its 100th birthday next year got a bit better...
View ArticleEast Providence trash will be collected as usual on Presidents Day
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence Department of Public Works has announced despite changes to holiday collections throughout the year rubbish will be collected on its regular schedule Presidents...
View ArticleEast Providence contends with growing heroin epidemic
EAST PROVIDENCE — The sobering news here in city matched the chilling numbers reported late last week by the State Police and the Rhode Island Department of Health. Thirty-eight people have died as a...
View ArticleOne-time legislation would allow East Providence access to road fund
EAST PROVIDENCE — Within the last two weeks, city pols Representative Helio Melo and Senator Daniel DaPonte have submitted legislation in their respective chambers that would clear the way for East...
View ArticlePolice fear heroin’s growing potency
EAST PROVIDENCE — Various reports on the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman due to a heroin overdose noted what seemed to be an exorbitant number of used and unused bags of the drug found by...
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