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GoLocalProv Ranks MHS Best On Island
Out of the three public high schools on Aquidneck Island, Middletown best serves its students, according the 2013 GoLocalProv report released Tuesday. GoLocal said it employs a formula developed at...
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Tell Us: What’s the Goal You Are Working on Right Now?
About this sponsorship: Patch has teamed up with Grape-Nuts cereal on this "What’s Your Mountain” campaign to find inspirational stories in our towns and celebrate folks who have affected positive...
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Jealous Rage Leads to Two Arrests
Two Newport women were arrested after they allegedly yelled at an employe at Aquidneck Pizza in Middletown and kicked her car window. Victoria Gamble, 29, of 59 Homer and Amanda Olszewski, 28, of 16...
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Newport Water Found in Violation of Safety Standards
The Newport Water Division, which provides water to customers in Newport and Middletown and wholesale to Portsmouth and Naval Station Newport, announced that its drinking water has exceeded the...
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Is Rhode Island Bad for Business?
A CEO magazine ranks Rhode Island as one of the worst states in the nation for business. Chief Executive Magazine ranked Rhode Island 37th based on a survey of corporate leaders. Survey respondents...
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Five Sports Cars for Sale in RI
When the weather gets nice, drivers' minds start to turn to rides that would handle perfectly on that twisty road, or roar awake on the open highway. To satisfy that hankering for a better feel...
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High Risk Sex Offender Moves Into Newport
A Level 3 sex offender has moved into Newport, according to the Newport Police Department. Francis W. Mello, 64, of 249 Connell Hwy., was convicted of first and second degree child molestation. The...
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Raimondo: Pension System 'Much Healthier' Following 2011 Reforms
About 18 months after the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a sweeping set of state pension reforms, the retirement system for state employees is "much healthier" than it was before, Treasurer Gina...
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Middletown Residents Petition Town To Repair 'Unacceptable' Road
Twenty five residents of J.H. Dwyer Drive are petitioning the town of Middletown to make repairs on the roadway that they say is an unacceptable condition. Decades of cold patching on the drive have...
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Zachary Lapelusa Pleads Guilty to Stabbing
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced that Zachary Lapelusa, 26, with a last known address of 102 McQuillan Drive, Milford, CT, pleaded guilty today before Superior Court Justice Edward C....
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Patch to Co-Host Welcome Home Party for Heather Abbott
We are excited to announce that Newport Patch and The Newport Buzz have teamed up with family and friends of Newport resident Heather Abbott to host a welcome home party and fundraiser for Heather on...
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Save The Bay Announces Alternate Route for Annual Swim
After a 37-year tradition was nearly derailed by federal sequestration, Save The Bay has finalized its plans for this year’s annual Swim, one of the longest running and most beautiful open water...
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Carnival at Easton's Beach In Town Till Sunday
It took just two days for the ferris wheel and sky surf rides to pop up and in just two more, they'll be gone. The carnival by the sea in the lower parking lot at Easton's Beach comes for just one...
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OMGPD: Adventures on the Road
Drunken Bumper Cars A Newport woman was arrested around 6 p.m. Wednesday after she allegedly hit two cars and fled the scene. Ingrid Pena-Tejada, 48, of 143 Third Street, Apt #4F, was charged with...
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