More than 600 students at North Kingstown High School, about half the population, stayed home from school when they learned a boy had written a threatening message on a desktop, The Jamestown Press reported June 3, 1999. Although police fully inspected the building, concluding there was no threat, the rumor mill was churning “death and
The town council unanimously voted to charge the turnpike authority a service fee for land that it owns at the Pell Bridge toll plaza, The Jamestown Press reported May 31, 1991. The plan to bill the Rhode Island Bridge and Turnpike Authority was proposed by Councilman Nick Robertson. “They disrupted the economy of the island
A packed Town Hall welcomed the governor as he administered the oath of office to the elected town council and school committee, The Jamestown Press reported May 19, 1999. The order of business ran smoothly as Victor Calabretta was elected president and Charlotte Richardson was chosen as vice president. In his opening remarks, Gov. Edward
The detonation date for dropping the deck trusses and supporting piers of the old Jamestown Bridge, weather permitting, has been scheduled, The Jamestown Press reported May 11, 2005. The controlled explosives in the second major detonation will remove approximately 1,600 feet of the two deck trusses stretching 800 feet on both sides of the gap