KINGSTON — Commencement weekend 2026 at the University of Rhode Island has come and gone, a time for faculty, leaders, and students themselves to give graduates advice on their way off campus. This year’s encouraging messages appeared to...
The air conditioners are about to get hungry. South County’s summer heat is closing in, and every cool room will soon chew through kilowatt-hours like a kid tearing into Del’s on a beach day. But in North Kingstown, South Kingstown and...
After weeks of making adjustments, Narragansett’s budget season is nearly over. The town council approved a first reading of the fiscal year budget for 2027 at Monday night’s meeting, with a final approval expected at the next...
Memorial Day arrives this weekend with multiple faces. It is Decoration Day, Memorial Day, holiday, family day, beach day and the unofficial start of summer day, all of these at once. “This is not a Hallmark holiday, like Mother’s Day or...
The rare insects that I wrote about last week— the Banded Boghaunter dragonfly and Hessel’s Hairstreak butterfly, respectively—in the hope that invoking their names, whether in English or Latin—Williamsonia lintneri (WL) and Callophrys...