It’s been much anticipated for a while now, but America’s 250th birthday is almost here, and this weekend, the towns around South County are bringing back beloved traditions and even creating new ones for such a special occasion. One of...
The school buses gave it away. Diane Hepburn heard them a few weeks ago, horns honking, kids cheering on the last day of school in Narragansett. The sound reached back 50 years and caught her by the throat. “Honestly, it was hearing the school...
Veolia Rhode Island has imposed a mandatory ban on all outdoor water use in South Kingstown and parts of Narragansett, effective immediately. The order, announced Tuesday, responds to a statewide drought and an aquifer that never recovered...
The current South Kingstown Town Council members — all seeking re-election — will not have any opposition for the first time in recent memory, according to various elected and appointed officials in town. Further, it will be the first...
Here’s a plot for a rom-com that even I, the non-betting Naturalist, would wager on as a surefire winner. It’s the start of the 70s, and a newly minted twenty-something, addled by the 60s, failing at college, and really uncertain about the...