East Providence City Council approves FY14-15 budget
EAST PROVIDENCE — At a special meeting Tuesday evening, Oct. 14, in the City Hall Chamber, the East Providence City Council voted unanimously to approve a revised Fiscal Year 2014-15 budget. All four...
View ArticleEast Providence advances to D-III girls’ tennis semifinals
PAWTUCKET — The favorites, including East Providence High School, advanced during preliminary round matches in the Division III girls’ championship tournament played Wednesday afternoon, Oct, 15, at...
View ArticleLeague, Post host general election debate for East Providence candidates
EAST PROVIDENCE — The League Of Women Voters and The East Providence Post/East Bay Newspapers along with the Rotary Of East Providence and Seekonk and the Cape Verdean Progressive Center present a...
View ArticleIn duel for first, East Providence spikers sweep LaSalle
PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School girls’ volleyball team faced a familiar foe and Division I-North rival in the LaSalle Rams Wednesday night, Oct. 15, on the road at the McLaughlin Athletic...
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Differences among state candidates on display at East Providence forum
EAST PROVIDENCE — While little seemingly separated the candidates for city seats during the General Election forum co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters and The East Providence Post/East Bay...
View ArticleEast Providence boys’ soccer club nears postseason berth
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ soccer team began a busy and important stretch of four games in eight days to close out its 2014 Division I regular season with one of its most...
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East Providence Police search for suspect in Santander Bank robbery
EAST PROVIDENCE — East Providence Police are on the hunt for the suspect in a robbery at the Santander Bank branch on Taunton Avenue Thursday afternoon, Oct. 16. The incident occurred at approximately...
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Barrington bests East Providence for Homecoming football victory
BARRINGTON — On Homecoming Night at Victory Field the home team did not disappoint. Backed all evening by a large and energetic crowd, the host Barrington High Eagles beat the East Providence Townies...
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North Smithfield ends East Providence’s season in girls’ tennis semis
BARRINGTON — The superb bounce-back season for the East Providence High School girls’ tennis team came to an end Friday afternoon, Oct. 17, with a 4-0 loss to North Smithfield in the Division III...
View ArticleMan is accidentally killed in Seekonk by East Providence driver
SEEKONK — A 35-year-old male walking on a dimly lighted road in Seekonk was struck and killed during a traffic accident last weekend. Steven Nixon, whose last known address of 330 Bowdoin St.,...
View ArticleAll involved are shocked about cat killing by East Providence man
EAST PROVIDENCE — A grotesque case of animal cruelty has left many in the community angered and aghast, including the parents of the perpetrator. A city man admitted to viciously killing his family cat...
View ArticleEast Providence Police apprehend suspect in Barrington stalking case
EAST PROVIDENCE — East Providence Police have located a city man suspected in a recent stalking case involving a real estate agent who was showing a home on Heritage Road in Barrington on Tuesday,...
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Mount edges East Providence in girls’ volleyball thriller
EAST PROVIDENCE — The host East Providence High School and Mount St. Charles Academy girls’ volleyball teams squared off in a Division I-North thriller Wednesday night, Oct. 22, at Carvalho Court, the...
View ArticleEast Providence ends long boys’ soccer losing skid against LaSalle
PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ soccer team closed out its Division I regular season Thursday night, Oct. 23, ending a dubious streak in the process. The Townies traveled to rival...
View ArticleEast Providence’s Rome Packing recalls Ocean’s Catch brand crab meat
EAST PROVIDENCE — Rome Packing Co., Inc. has issued a voluntary recall of its Ocean’s Catch brand All Natural Jonah Crab Leg Meat after routine product sampling by the company determined some of the...
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East Providence’s Cordeiro wins fourth annual Luxe ‘Build Your Own Burger’...
EAST PROVIDENCE — Not one for the kitchen before he left home for a four-year enlistment in the United States Marine Corps, city native Richard Cordeiro has made up for lost time and then some. His...
View ArticleWarren Avenue bridge closes in East Providence
EAST PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Department of Transportation announced it will close the Warren Avenue bridge on-ramp, between Purchase Street and First Street in East Providence overnight into...
View ArticleEast Providence Council candidates answer economic development question
EAST PROVIDENCE — The overall health of East Providence’s economy and opportunities for economic development are a couple of bellwether issues not only in the year’s election, but have been and will...
View ArticleState candidates ponder East Providence’s water access
EAST PROVIDENCE — Water, access to the clean, consumable kind, is a matter of common interest for the cities and towns that neighbor East Providence. It’s also an issue which only continues to gain in...
View ArticleEast Providence School Committee candidates talk funding
EAST PROVIDENCE — The only contested race in the 2014 election for the East Providence School Committee comes in Ward 4 and features a pair of political newcomers, though two people — Jessica...
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