When NASA oversaw mankind’s first contact with a celestial body 50 years ago, the American spirit was energized by the potential of space travel. That mythic moment when the Moon’s surface …
Outdoor concerts and summer go hand in hand – especially at Cranston’s Garden City Center.Paul Borrelli of North Providence-based Borrelli Event Services remembers the early days of the …
Raymond Raiche is unique in more than a few ways. For starters, the 93-year-old Woonsocket native and longtime Warwick resident only stopped cutting his own grass this year...
Atwood Florist owner John Dick saw seven years ago that business was dipping during the months of July and August. That sparked an idea. Dick decided to add fireworks to his stock from June …
Judy and Jonathan Knight love hiking, which goes a long way in explaining why they have a meadow for a garden. To the untrained eye, much of their Warwick Neck lot may appear as if the Knights …
By DON FOWLER Back in the late 1950s Theatre-By-The-Sea brought in big Hollywood names like Dorothy Lamour to bring summer stock to Rhode Island. A young Rhode Islander by the name of Tom Roberts was spending the summer with his family in South County,
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COACH SENTENCED A Connecticut little league coach who was arrested after arranging to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex at a Warwick hotel in January - and being found in possession of child pornography - has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.
Tracy L. Robbins, 58, passed away Friday, July 19, 2019, surrounded by her loving family and friends, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Born in Morgantown, WV, a …
Oswald S. Prosser, 81, passed away Saturday, July 20, 2019, at the Cherry Hill Manor. He was the beloved husband of Loretta (DeNoncour) Prosser. He was a son of the late Oswald S. …
Philip Earl McCrae Jr., 72, passed peacefully surrounded by his loving family on July 19, 2019. He was the beloved, devoted husband of Patti (Heon) McCrae and loving son of the late …
Janice Percie (Butterfield) Di Franco died on July 13, 2019 at the age of 91, in Warwick. Born in Winterport, Maine, on September 2, 1927, she was the daughter of Dr. Percival Ruel …
Elaine I. (Bettencourt) Black, 78, a retired, licensed Practical Nurse, for the former Cranston General Hospital, and Roger Williams Hospital, passed away, Friday, July 19, 2019. She …
Congratulations to this week's Star Students from our wonderfully talented students throughout the city!
To the Editor: Many thanks to the Beacon, and to Ethan Hartley, for the fine coverage of the Warwick City Council (Warwick School Committee back-and-forth). Mr. Hartley brings some clarity to a confusing array of barbs and darts, proposals and
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