Prelog: Yes, I can spell. In fact I was a perfect 100 percent speller in school. However, I am a smoke signals kind of guy now (think Lonely Are the Brave) caught in the technological age. Add that to LaVecchio (old age) getting to me; my hands don't work right and a...
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water, I am back. It has been a rough 3 1/2 months for me so I am happy to be able to once again share news from the football trail in Rhode Island with all of you. – Bruce Cranston West Head Coach, TOM MILEWSKI...
Above: xxxx Graduation time is here. Kids going through the end of the year ceremonies and traditions. Awards night. Honors night. Prom. Graduation, and probably more. In Greenwood Cove, way back in the day, the smallest school in the state at the time, had its...
Above: East Greenwich's Vin Ucci gives acceptance speech after receiving the 2023 Jack Cronin Award as the Rhode Island High School Coach of the Year. Photo by Chuck Nadeau It was a great night last Wednesday (4/5/23) as the Providence Gridiron Club celebrated its...
Above: Vin Ucci, right, with his brother Joe. They coached Moses Brown to a state title in 2022. The Providence Gridiron Club will hold its Annual Awards Night on April 5, at 7 p.m., at the Quonset 'O' Club, 200 Lt. Brown Road, North Kingstown. Tickets are $40 for a...
Photo by Cullan Smith, courtesy of Unsplash The three young braves had left their wigwams early that morning, planning to hunt in one of their favorite spots just north of their village. The hunting had not gone well, though Red Hawk's arrow had pinned a squirrel by...
Above: The former Our Lady of Mercy Church on Main Street back in the day. Joe Coleman died March 5, 2023. I am dumbstruck with the news – I had just talked to him the day before. He had wanted me to write his obituary, but for all of you of the "Barn era," this will...
Above: Cristos Argys (#18) goes up for a catch during a game for Holy Cross. Photo credit: Holy Cross Athletics Argys is from East Greenwich CRISTOS ARGYS, a 6-2, 202 lb defensive back from Holy Cross, and MALIK GAVEK, a 5-10, 195 lb defensive back from URI, are...
As has been stated before and was general knowledge back in the day, many people in the state, and maybe even more in Greenwood Cove, hardly, if ever, left their familiar stomping grounds. People preferred to stay around their homes, their neighborhoods, their towns....
Yankee humorist, raconteur, country bumpkin, vice president, TV host, storyteller and after-dinner speaker. Who is this man? Some of you may know. See if you can figure it out by the end of this story. The country bumpkin comes out when our primary subject, or...
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