Households would have one year to tie in to the line; the assessment would be paid over 20 years – if the Town Council decides to go ahead with sewers for Shore Acres.
The price tag for each is estimated at $10 million.
The decision still needs to be formally ratified, but a majority of the board agreed in a vote July 31 that the town did not bargain in good faith.
The first couple showed up at 8:30 a.m., as soon as the clerk's office opened.
Driving the stretch between Wickford and Quonset has become an exercise in patience, and frustration.
Save the Bay says this year's high number of closures is due to lots of factors, like cesspools, animal waste, and polluted runoff, controlled at the local level.
The Town Council president talks to the Westerly Sun.
Dawson Hodgson, James Sheehan, and Doreen Costa are among the state legislators who have declined the 2.1 percent raise.
New group to focus on Wickford economic development; students and parents push to restore funding for NKHS hockey, gymnastics.
Despite the heat, we've been pretty lucky this year, water-wise. Here's how to keep that luck going.
"WEDAB" is an offshoot of the reinvigorated Economic Development Advisory Board and it's looking for members.
Money to pay for fencing would come from the Kayla Jean Ricci Memorial Foundation.
Your guide for life in North Kingstown today, July 16.
New surcharges for licenses and registrations went into effect on July 1.
Drivers cited for the primary offense will be charged $40 instead of the prior $85.
The General Assembly recently passed an increase in the minimum wage, effective Jan. 1, 2014.
The $8.2 billion budget proposal for fiscal 2014 now heads to the state Senate.
By a 5-4 vote, justices on June 26 ruled the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
A flood watch is in effect through Wednesday morning.
The North Kingstown Representative is expected to start in the new post in late June.
About 165,000 acres of ocean will be opened to commercial wind developments, the Interior Department announced this week.
School Committee Vice Chair Larry Ceresi was arrested in April on a felony charge of domestic stalking.
Beginning today, advocacy services for domestic violence — including those provided by Sojourner House and the Women's Center of Rhode Island — will be closed on Mondays.
The National Weather Service is warning of the potential for strong thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon.
Learn about giving marrow today, and celebrate the birth of several musicians.
A bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed 56-15.
The new budget will increase taxes by an average of $90 per household.
No need for a fishing license or trout conservation stamp this weekend in Rhode Island.
With the Senate's approval, the bill now goes back to the House for approval, then to Gov. Lincoln Chafee for his signature.
The RI Senate Judiciary Committee votes 7-4 today to move marriage-equality legislation to the full Senate on Wednesday; NK Sen. Dawson Hodgson among those in favor.
Today the Navy informed Save The Bay that Naval Station Newport cannot host the start to the 2013 Save The Bay Swim due to fiscal constraints imposed by federal budget sequestration
Due to the sequester and subsequent cuts to the military, this year's air show in Rhode Island has been canceled.
Less than 10 people spoke at Monday night's public hearings.
The state will sell the land, but build another park-and-ride farther up Route 2.
In January, Commissioner Gist notified RI's superintendents that she would take "severe" action against any district using seniority, job fairs or bumping to assign, keep or lay off teachers.
Public hearings for this year's budget are scheduled Monday at North Kingstown High School.