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ArticleNew QDC board mem­ber says he’s ‘not gonna be pushed around’

At the latest North King­stown town coun­cil meet­ing, David T. Miele recoun­ted his exper­i­ence of being a mem­ber of the Quon­set Devel­op­ment Board of Dir­ect­ors, after being appoin­ted to the pos­i­tion on April 27. His first meet­ing was the...

ArticleEG School Com­mit­tee approves redis­trict­ing

The East Green­wich School Com­mit­tee unan­im­ously approved a new redis­trict­ing plan Tues­day for grades 1-5, set to take effect in the 2027-28 school year, along with a stra­tegic plan out­lining dis­trict goals through 2030. The redis­trict­ing...

ArticlePub­lic o cials dis­agree on need for NK mayor, move to vot­ing dis­tricts

A Charter Com­mis­sion that went more than a year without meet­ing has now become the unlikely arena for a debate over whether North King­stown should elect its first mayor and redraw its polit­ical map into vot­ing dis­tricts. Charter Com­mis­sion...

ArticleA clear eel leads the Nat­ur­al­ist down a murky path

ArticleA er 63 years, Healy News Stand set to close in July

ArticleNature

of the animal’s remark­ably clear body told me that we’d prob­ably been watch­ing a genu­ine mir­acle known as a “glass eel.” The young­sters of the snake-like fish dubbed Anguilla rostrata by ich­thy­olo­gists begin life as eggs depos­ited by their...