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The Providence Journal
March 24, 2018
In an interview, Blair, of Exeter, discussed his experience as a small business owner in Rhode Island. Here are excerpts: How is your business different from similar businesses around you? I think the biggest factor is customer service. We pride ourselves on professionalism and reliability. There are tens ofÃâà...
The Providence Journal
March 15, 2018
Price — whose House district includes voters along the Ten Rod Road stretch of Exeter, where the outhouse spat broke out, filed paperwork to formally ... written two books so far on the 300-plus non-working outhouses he has found in every corner of Rhode Island — when asked his opinion of the bill.
The Providence Journal
March 13, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island has an outhouse problem. And that problem has worked its way from Ten Rod Road in Exeter to the State House, where a public hearing is scheduled Thursday night on a bill that would banish outhouses, forever, from the Rhode Island landscape. The bill, co-sponsoredÃâà...
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March 12, 2018
The Rhode Island State Police Fugitive Crime Task Force on Monday arrested an Alabama man who was wanted on first-degree rape charges. Allen Dalton Johnson, 23, of Roanoke, was captured at a job site in Exeter, police noted in a press release. Authorities said he had an outstanding warrant in Alabama, but traveledÃâà...
Ricentral.com
March 9, 2018
At the request of Rhode Island's Attorney General, the Exeter town council voted Monday to support the removal of a sunset provision regarding the ... adopted by five RI communities that recognized the need for a more balanced foreclosure process: Providence, Cranston, Warwick, East Providence, andÃâà...
The Providence Journal
March 8, 2018
There is an in-ground pool, a cabana bar, and a separate cabana with a commercial grade kitchen in an expansive entertainment area behind the house. Farther up the hill is a barn with stalls for eight horses, and beyond the barn, there is a motorcross track. EXETER, R.I. — There is plenty of room to enjoyÃâà...
The Providence Journal
March 3, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — More than 70,000 Rhode Island customers remained without electricity Saturday night as recovery efforts in the aftermath of a powerful nor'easter ramped .... No restoration estimate was available for Exeter and Hopkinton, with Narragansett expected to be restored by 4 p.m. Sunday.
The Providence Journal
March 1, 2018
Glenn Cottrell, left, and Matt Cottrell, right, discuss selling their cows with Steve Vladyka, of Emma Acres Farm in Exeter. ... SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — One of Rhode Island's last nine dairy farms, which has been in the same family for 118 years and is recognized as a model of outstanding dairy practices,Ãâà...
The Providence Journal
February 27, 2018
Mike Aiello, owner of the Pine Ridge Indoor Shooting Range, in Exeter, says his latest flurry of guns sales began in earnest Friday. He remembers the day because it was one day after Gov. Gina Raimondo committed Rhode Island to a regional effort to toughen gun laws. That Friday, his supply of AR-15Ãâà...
Turn to 10
February 23, 2018
This year, in the state budget, is an article that would give the state a way to get the money from Exeter. Article 3 in the budget would allow the state to withhold certain state aid from any community that owes money to a state agency, like the state police. Sen. Lou DiPalma, a Democrat who represents Middletown, is in favorÃâà...
Turn to 10
February 22, 2018
Rhode Island State Police on Thursday shot down the Foster Town Council's inquiry into whether state police could come in and take over for the local police force as a way to save ... The state police are the only police in one town -- Exeter -- and they just sent Exeter a request in January to pay nearly $300,000 for services.
The Providence Journal
February 19, 2018
Jarod R. Bourbonniere, left, and Ryan White are charged in connection with a February home invasion in Exeter. [Rhode Island State Police] ... EXETER, R.I. — Three teenagers face robbery charges after they allegedly broke into a 60-year-old man's home, assaulted him, and robbed him of a handgun,Ãâà...
The Providence Journal
February 15, 2018
“Installation of the unconstitutional truck-only tolling gantries does nothing more than frame-up timing for the State's costly legal battle that will be funded with taxpayer dollars,” Rhode Island Trucking Association President Christopher Maxwell wrote in an email. “The RI Trucking Association and theÃâà...
The Providence Journal
February 12, 2018
EXETER — About 70 years ago, the farm owned by Milan Earl Adams in South Kingstown was taken by eminent domain so the University of Rhode Island could expand its campus. Adams bought more land not far away in Exeter and now his grandson and namesake is ensuring that it will remain as a farmÃâà...
The Providence Journal
December 31, 1999
But there's a difference between responsiveness and overkill. And the recent episode of a proposed Rhode Island ban on outhouses was definitely a case of the latter. Rep. Justin Price, a Richmond Republican whose district includes parts of Exeter and Hopkinton, introduced a bill last month after speakingÃâà...
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