Alligator owner wants reptile returned Oct 27, 2009
With his kids watching from the car, he quickly ventured into the swampy area near Routes 24 and 81 and the Harbour Mall, about a mile from the Tiverton line ... Early Monday afternoon, French said he received a phone call from a young Tiverton man who claims to be the owner. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
Seaside to city streets, R.I. is big on walking trails Oct 25, 2009
Fifty acres isn t a big hunk of land, but at the Emilie Ruecker Wildlife Refuge in Tiverton, they make the most of it. This parcel, once a farm owned by its namesake and donated to the Audubon Society in 1965, is particularly gorgeous in fall, with flat, well-marked trails winding through woods and salt marshes along the Sakonnet River. (Boston Globe)
RI judge nominated for federal appeals court seat Oct 7, 2009
Thompson presided over the high-profile criminal cases against Chester Briggs, a former telephone company worker convicted of shooting a friend after a confrontation in her Tiverton barn, and Massachusetts construction worker Jeremy Motyka, who was found guilty of raping and murdering a grandmother. Also Tuesday, Obama nominated U.S. District Judge Denny Chin of New York for a seat on the 2nd U.S Circuit Court of Appeals. (Concord Monitor)
Mosquito alert high in Easton Oct 2, 2009
Alert levels in Leominster and Webster increase from remote to low and Westport was elevated to moderate due to the identification of a EEE infected horse in Tiverton, Rhode Island. The spring rains helped breed the types of mosquitoes that spread EEE, said DPH State Epidemiologist Al DeMaria Because of that, Massachusetts and other New England states are continuing to find EEE carrying mosquitoes; not only in the areas we traditionally find them, but occasionally well outside of those areas as... (Easton Journal, MA)
Cleanup Starts in R.I. Neighborhood With Blue Soil Sep 1, 2009
TIVERTON, R.I. A Rhode Island neighborhood so polluted that the soil in residents' backyards is blue is getting cleaned up. The project starting Monday will remove the soil polluted with arsenic, cyanide, lead and other contaminants to a depth of two feet from about 100 properties. (Fox News)
Cleanup Set for Polluted Rhode Island Neighborhood Aug 31, 2009
TIVERTON, R.I. August 30, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press ... Lawyers for about 150 plaintiffs said work to clean the contaminated soil in Tiverton should begin Monday. (ABC News -- Wire)
Go with the flow Jun 21, 2009
If you stay on land, there are plenty of places for that, including Evelyn s Drive-In, a classic seafood spot on the edge of Nanaquaket Pond in Tiverton, just north on Route 77 ... 2335 Main Road, Tiverton. (Boston Globe)
Cold comfort: cone or cup? Jun 21, 2009
16 East Road, Tiverton, 401-624-4500. Find urban ice cream at its finest at Three Sisters, where owner Mike Stern concocts creations like Frogurt, and ice cream treats that include Mexican chocolate, ginger papaya, and Guinness. (Boston Globe)
What's a Kidney Among Friends? Jun 21, 2009
His parents, Phyllis and David Brower of Tiverton, R.I., were shocked in some ways -- others, not. "You going to do what?" Phyllis Brower responded when her son conveyed his decision. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Rhode Island Project Shows Obama Stimulus Has Yet to Dent Job-Loss Trend May 23, 2009
Tiverton Work Shows Stimulus Not Denting Job Losses (Update1) - Bloomberg ... Tiverton Work Shows Stimulus Not Denting Job Losses (Update1) ... To critics, the Tiverton project, which is scheduled to end in September, illustrates the stimulus programs weaknesses: They say it may be creating too few jobs, too slowly, for too short a time. (Bloomberg)
New round starts in old R.I. bridge-naming fight Mar 1, 2009
Yet now entering its fourth year is a fight over naming a to-be-constructed replacement for the Sakonnet River Bridge, which connects Portsmouth and Tiverton ... Representative John Edwards of Tiverton, whose district includes the bridge, said local veterans lobbied him to name the bridge for Sergeant Christopher Potts, a member of the Rhode Island National Guard killed by insurgents in 2004 while manning a checkpoint 13 miles north of Baghdad ... As best he knows, Hutchinson never set foot in... (Boston Globe)
Over 100 UMass Athletes Named To A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll Feb 14, 2009
Tiverton, R.I. Tiverton Undeclared Priscilla Cookson Rowing Sr. Wakefield, R.I. South Kingstown Communicative Disorders Erica Courtmanche W. Swimming g Sr. Hamden, Conn. Hamden History Sean Curry M. Track So. (Umassathletics.com)
