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BURRILLVILLE – What do you get when you combine a love of animals, a busy, business-minded mother and her son, and the ambition to try new things?  The somewhat surprising answer is Diesel Fuel Bakery, a new Pascoag-based business that will bring healthy eating options to the village center - for both customers and their furry companions.  Mother and son team...

The following is a list of property sales recorded in the town clerk's office between Friday, Oct. 9 and Monday, Oct. 19. 311 Black Plain Road Seller: Joy Stonionis Buyer: Matthew Nishida Price: $280,000 950 Iron Mine Hill Road Seller: Shaun & Candy Reilly Buyer: Scott Pereira & Karen Jones Price: $420,000 1 Tupperware Drive, Unit 329 Seller: Judith Sullivan Buyer: Todd Rawley Price: $379,900 8 Branch Ave. Seller: Diane Nason-Doire Buyer: Timothy Smith Price:...

BURRILLVILLE – In Burrillville, the dark powers of All Hallows Eve do not visit just once a year – they live in Neal DeConte’s basement, where he has been building his own Army of Darkness with figurines that have crawled out of our collective cinematic nightmares. “This is my passion,” DeConte told NRI NOW, and his intensity shows in the...

NORTH SMITHFIELD – An effort by one North Smithfield resident to spread a little joy at a time when a pandemic has left many with an ongoing sense of uncertainty could soon see the town covered in yellow. Ann Lilley is working with the North Smithfield Heritage Association to cover the town in thousands of daffodils, and is now selling...

The following is a list of property sales recorded in the Burrillville Town Clerk’s office between Friday, Oct. 9 and Thursday, Oct. 15. 390 Hill Road Seller: Dennis & Dina Ruzzano Buyer: Rachel Sidla Price: $305,000 184 Whipple Ave. Seller: Michael LaChapelle & Christine Torrence Buyer: Philip Castro & Philip Castro Jr. Price: $425,000 81 Whiting Lane Seller: Joshua & Amelia Wexler Buyer: Donald & Kelley Schattle Price: $220,000 Sanwood Estate Condominiums...

NORTH SMITHFIELD – The epitaph is inscribed on an old grave: “Altho' consumption's vampire grasp had seized thy mortal frame, thy ardent and inspiring mind, untouched, remained the same.” Speculators suggest “vampire” is possibly a figure of speech for the condition of consumption. But some the more imaginative contend that the grave of Simon Whipple Aldrich, in a North Smithfield...

BURRILLVILLE – With Halloween night fast approaching, the Rhode Island Department of Health has partnered with award-winning, Burrillville-based cartoonist and child safety advocate Jim Weicherding to remind kids how to celebrate safely this year. While some communities have cancelled Halloween-related events due to COVID-19, trick or treating has been deemed relatively safe by RIDOH Director James McDonald, as long as...