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10/25/2024

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has issued several travel advisories for Newport County, effective from October 26 to November 1, 2024. Motorists should anticipate potential delays and adjust their routes accordingly. In Newport, mobile operations will continue at the Pell Bridge appro...

08/09/2024

Rhode Island man shot by Vermont troopers during chase pleads not guilty to attempted murder

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — A Rhode Island man who was shot and injured during a confrontation with Vermont State Police troopers in Burke last month has pleaded not guilty to numerous charges, including three counts of attempted murder. Brenden Sackal, 30, of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, shot at troo...

08/09/2024

Debby bringing heavy rain, flooding and possible tornadoes northeast into the weekend

08/09/2024

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Vermont’s state primaries

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Democrats will compete in Vermont’s state primary on Tuesday for the right to challenge four-term Republican Gov. Phil Scott in November. The race is the highest profile of a handful of contested primaries on the ballot. Voters will also de...

07/29/2024

American flags should be born in the USA now, too, Congress says

Soon, Old Glory will have to be born in the land of the free and not merely flying over it. Congress has passed a proposal to require the federal government to purchase only American flags that have been completely manufactured in the U.S. The U.S. imports millions of American flags from overseas, m...

07/17/2024

Hikers and cyclists can now cross Vermont on New England’s longest rail trail, a year after floods

By WILSON RING Associated Press HARDWICK, Vt. (AP) — A year after epic summer flooding delayed the official opening of New England’s longest rail trail, the 93-mile route across northern Vermont is finally delivering on the promise made years ago of a cross-state recreation trail. The Lamoille...

07/12/2024

Vermonters, pummeled by floods exactly a year apart, begin another cleanup

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Owen Bradley has been listening to the flow of the Great Brook outside his historic brick house in Vermont for nearly 40 years. But the sound changed this week as raging waters inched closer, building to a torrent that tore through the back of...

07/08/2024

Music Review: Phish rock out with energy and urgency on their 16th studio album, ‘Evolve’

By DAVE CAMPBELL Associated Press There might never be a more apt title for a Phish album than “Evolve,” the jam masters’ 16th studio album and first in over four years. Just as this boundary-pushing quartet has progressed over four-plus decades by fusing rock, jazz, bluegrass and other freewh...

07/08/2024

King Arthur Baking’s CEO on keeping America’s oldest flour company in the mix

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer As America’s oldest flour company, King Arthur Baking Co. has seen a lot. It opened in 1790, when George Washington was president. But little could have prepared it for the start of the coronavirus pandemic, when demand for King Arthur’s products jumped six...

07/04/2024

Americans to celebrate Fourth of July with parades, cookouts — and lots of fireworks

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press Many Americans weren’t letting worries about their pocketbooks keep them from traveling and enjoying fireworks as they celebrate their nation’s birth with parades, cookouts and fiery splashes of colors against the evening sky. Travel records were projected to fall...

07/02/2024

Comic – Sour Grapes: Dishes

Here’s this week’s Sour Grapes; enjoy!

06/25/2024

Ice Cream Recall: Listeria found in multiple brands

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) has announced that Totally Cool, Inc. has recalled multiple brands of ice cream products due to potential Listeria contamination. The recall impacts products sold under the brand names Friendly’s, Abilyn’s Frozen Bakery, Hershey’s Ice Cream, Yelloh...

06/25/2024

Comic – Sour Grapes: Called Out

Here’s this week’s Sour Grapes; enjoy!

06/24/2024

Book Review: An unarmed game warden tracks a killer through the Maine wilderness in ‘Pitch Dark’

By BRUCE DESILVA Associated Press Heavy storms have made much of northern Maine impassible. Streams and rivers are overflowing their banks, and logging roads and forest trails are crisscrossed with toppled trees. It’s no time to go exploring or hunting, so why has a heavily armed stranger rented a...

06/21/2024

Highest-rated beer in Vermont

If you drink beer—any beer—you’re probably familiar with the craft beer explosion that began in the late 2010s, and you likely fall into one of two camps: IPA warrior or lager loyalist. The great thing about a beer-related revolution is that there is no wrong side. Whatever your preference, ch...

06/19/2024

Scorching temperatures, humidity making life miserable for millions from Midwest to Maine

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A blistering heat wave Wednesday extended from the Midwest to New England, leaving millions of people sweltering through the Juneteenth holiday, including in places like northern Maine where they rarely experience such conditions this early in the ye...

06/19/2024

Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

Kris Manjapra, Tufts University The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebr...

06/18/2024

Comic – Sour Grapes: Sympathy

Here’s this week’s Sour Grapes, enjoy!