Burrillville

BURRILLVILLE – This is a busy week for classic car shows and cruise nights across the state of Rhode Island and the region. The Buckleupallofus Cruisin’ Safety Season is unofficially underway, reminding kids and families about the importance of wearing seatbelts in vehicles starting Saturday, May, 3, and ending on Halloween night. The official start date is Memorial Day...

It was just one of those nonchalant comments made by a friend:"I'd love to...if I could find the time..." What ever happened to time anyway? I remember reading about how there used to be plenty of it around, enough for everyone to share... Actually, I have found that in New England we seem to have gotten the short end of the...

BURRILLVILLE – Foot-stomping country music was coming from inside The Lodge in Pascoag where a dozen happy-looking people were moving to the upbeat sounds. Energetic and enthusiastic-looking, the dancers executed complex moves in as smooth a fashion, like disco dancers from a scene in the film Saturday Night Fever from 1977. Except the dancers at the Lodge were clad in...

The following is a list of property sales recorded in the Burrillville Town Clerk’s office from Wednesday, April 9 through Monday, April 14. 1714 Douglas Turnpike Seller: Frank Pino & Maria Morillo Buyer: Jesse Doyle Price: $580,000 0 Doe Crossings Seller: John Lace Buyer: Evan Bishop Price: $30,000 125 Inman Road Seller: Eric & Michelle Broderick Buyer: Jeffrey & Nicole Shaw Price: $500,000 0 Victory Highway Seller: SMITHCO, LLC Buyer:...

BURRILLVILLE – A facility providing living space for dozens of unhoused Rhode Islanders over the past year and a half will close its doors on Monday, June 30, according to the state Department of Housing. The Tri-County Community Action Agency family campus at Zambarano Hospital is slated to close once a lease on the cottages used for the shelter runs...

BURRILLVILLE – A 28.57 acre site in Pascoag already approved for construction of 11 duplexes has been sold to a Cranston-based developer. Phenix Development, LLC purchased 202 Lapham Farm Road from Chepachet-based KLMB Properties, LLC, a firm that obtained approval for a project known as Lapham Farm Village last year. Plans for the major subdivision were first submitted by...

The recent spate of ICE detentions are all the bad things rolled into one: racial profiling, lack of due process, suppression of free speech, religious intolerance, authoritarian state power, (and) failure to respect human dignity. A holder of a legal and valid F-1 visa, Rumeysa Ozturk – hustled off a Somerville street by masked officers wearing black who refused to identify...