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CUMBERLAND – With 100 percent capacity expected in Rhode Island restaurants and bars as of May 28, Cumberland’s executive order allowing owners to have temporary outdoor seating equal to what they’re missing inside will be rendered defunct. Members of the Town Council’s ordinance subcommittee will now discuss how best to move forward on addressing the situation, even as many restaurant owners have indicated a desire to continue on with the outdoor seating they’ve been allowed as a group during the pandemic. The trend, as council members mentioned last week, is for restaurants to move more business outdoors, but the town’s temporary order ties that allowable outdoor seating to what’s not allowed by the state inside, meaning the outdoor seats gradually go away until they hit zero toward the end of the month. ....
5/5/2021 Neighbors cry fowl, want chickens evicted from Cumberland Hill Paromita Ghosh and David Dugre hold two of their five chickens in the backyard of their home at 86 Spring St. in Cumberland. Some neighbors are complaining about the chickens, but Ghosh and Dugre say they should be allowed to keep them here. (Breeze photos by Robert Emerson) Controversy brings issue back into spotlight CUMBERLAND – A neighborhood kerfuffle over backyard chickens and a deadlocked vote on the issue last week has some officials questioning whether local rules on keeping the clucking birds might need to be revamped. David Dugre and Paromita Ghosh have had five chickens housed in a backyard coop at 86 Spring St. for about the past year after moving into the home two years ago, a situation that’s angered some neighbors over what they say is a diminished quality of life. ....
CUMBERLAND – The long and often convoluted history of one of Cumberland’s largest proposed housing projects, now tied up in litigation with one of the town’s most well-known developers, is still taking more twists and turns than the Diamond Hill roundabouts. Back in July 2011, The Valley Breeze reported that real estate broker John Brady, owner of 88 acres of Bear Hill, was nearing final approvals on his Gold Rush Estates, a development of 60 homes named in honor of old-time landowner David Curran and the mini-gold rush that hit Bear Hill in May 1904. Asked back then when he expected work on his project to get started, Brady said it wouldn’t be happening soon due to the condition of the economy. A decade later, the 60-lot subdivision project, first granted preliminary plan approval in 2008 but allowed to be put on pause through state tolling statutes, still waits in limbo. ....
3/10/2021 Roundabout flooding victims see town claims denied Cumberland town employees work to connect a new municipal pipe to existing state pipes under Diamond Hill Road at the roundabouts early last December. (Breeze photo by Ethan Shorey) CUMBERLAND – The town’s insurer has denied claims for damages from five residents whose properties near the new Diamond Hill Road roundabouts were flooded late last November, saying the cause of the flooding was ultimately determined to be an issue under the state roadway. “After reviewing your claim statement, estimate and photos, we contacted the town of Cumberland to discuss what happened,” read a denial letter from the Rhode Island Interlocal Trust last month to one of the victims. “The town of Cumberland has investigated the cause of the loss and determined that the water backed up due to a blocked culvert under a Rhode Island state road.” ....