Above: People lined up outside of Swift Community Center for their vaccination appointment Tuesday. East Greenwich has begun setting up appointments for 90 doses of vaccine the town will receive next week. The town is on track to receive 90 doses a week for the next...
A new restaurant group is taking over the former Outback Steakhouse restaurant at 1000 Division Street. On Monday night the Town Council approved a liquor license transfer from Outback to Tavern in the Square, owned by the Broadway Hospitality Group of Boston. BHG...
Monday, Jan. 25 8:15 a.m. – A man found a wallet containing $56 and some loose change in the middle of James H. Eldredge Elementary School’s field. There were no IDs or credit cards in the wallet, so the owner could not be identified. Police will hold on to the wallet...
The School Committee discussed a new English curriculum for middle and high school students on Tuesday night – one that relied on technology to tell diverse stories for readers of all abilities. After the General Assembly passed the Rhode Island Board of Education Act...
The Town Council got an update last week on efforts the town making to address systemic racism, including in the police department. This follows three local demonstrations last June in response to the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in...
Tuesday, Jan. 19 9:20 a.m. – Police at a traffic stop on Division Road and First Avenue found that the vehicle registration on a black Chevrolet Silverado was cancelled, and had not been active since 2017. Blue Sun Towing towed the car, and the driver was issued a...
The town has only 70 doses initially; the state is also ending restaurant curfew By Elizabeth McNamara and Laura Weick First order of business: Vaccination for the general public is here! But, it will be slow going and, in East Greenwich, the town will reach out to...
At Monday night's council meeting, Siena's Chris Tarro argues his case The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on local restaurants was a major point of discussion at the virtual Town Council meeting Monday night. In addition to a public hearing on several restaurants’...
Monday, Jan. 11 3:23 p.m. – An East Greenwich man told police he’d received a notice in the mail containing a prepaid credit card requesting personal information such as his Social Security number. He did not pay for the card, and since he’d been a victim of credit...
Above: Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, director of the RI Dept. of Health, with infectious disease specialist Dr. Philip Chan (left) and R.I. Director of Administration Brett Smiley (right) at Thursday's virus briefing. Pool photo by Kris Craig / Providence Journal East...
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