Oakley’s adds patio drinks, entertainment to lineup of outdoor fun
BURRILLVILLE – It's been just over a year since Linda Oakley Giguerre took over management of Oakley's Food and Fun Center from her brother Phil Oakley.
A Lincoln resident and former retail sales manager for Kellogg, Giguerre has been running the massive Broncos Highway establishment – which offers go karts, mini-golf, batting cages and a restaurant – since April of last...
Religious artifacts, housed in Burrillville for decades, headed to new home
BURRILLVILLE – Rose Myette spent more than 90 years quietly building a domestic chapel in honor of her cousin Marie Rose Ferron inside her Glendale home.
Now, some four years after her death, Myette's collection of religious artifacts and original artwork documenting the life of the well-known mystic stigmata will finally be moved to a permanent location.
The Little Rose Foundation of...
Expert continues plea for impact study on power plant
PROVIDENCE – Rick Enser readily admits that he doesn't want to see a power plant, such as the one Invenergy Thermal Development LLC has proposed by the property line of George Washington State Forest, built anywhere in Rhode Island.
But as an ecologist who spent 28 years documenting the state's biodiversity as the coordinator of the Rhode Island Department of...
Recent home sales in Burrillville
The following is a list of property transfers recorded in the Burrillville Town Clerk's office between Monday, April 23 and Thursday, May 3.
918 Victory Highway
Seller: Charles and Sheila Bibeault
Buyer: Peter Angell
Price: $220,000
2020 Bronco Highway
Seller: M & T Bank
Buyer: Michael Eric King
Price: $188,601
The Commons at Harrisville Village
Seller: Harrisville Village LLC
Unit 238, Building 15
Buyer: John Theroux
Price: $229,900
Unit 304, Building 22
Buyer: Gregory...
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