Burrillville

BURRILLVILLE – It’s Major League Baseball season everyone - time for baseball action across the USA. Worcester WooSox and Boston Red Sox fans are hoping for a great season and a trip to the World Series this year. It’s very important to remind kids that it is safer to play baseball in backyards and not in streets. Meeting the...

The following is a list of property sales recorded in the Burrillville Town Clerk’s office between Wednesday, March 12 and Friday, March 28. 165-167 Pascoag Main St. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank (Howard Hopkins) Buyer: Pioneer Investments LLC Price: $301,000 11 Oakland Ave. Seller: Vanessa D'Andrea Buyer: Anthony & Christine Chavier Price: $638,000 308 Arthur's Way Seller: Lyndsey Larson & Roger Sweeney (administrators) Buyer: Devon Sweeney Price: $200,000 171 Pulaski Road Seller:...

"April come she will," so says Simon and Garfunkel.  Chances are, however, that even they didn't realize how much attention the fourth calendar month has received over the years. First of all, there is April 1, fool's day. Rumor has it that the day was originally the start of the new year, but through some wheeling and dealing was moved further...

BURRILLVILLE – On Sunday the aromas of a meal cooking permeated the tiny kitchen of the 1908 Seventh Day Adventist church building in Mapleville. Seated at tables in the adjacent dining room where more than 20 attendees sampling plant-based cooking prepared by volunteers.  “So many people enjoy coming to the cooking classes,” said volunteer Claire Entwistle. “Covid threw things off,...

PROVIDENCE – State officials announced this week awards of $486,000 in funding for projects that will support the growth, development, and marketing of local farms, seafood harvesters, and food businesses, including grants to two northern Rhode Island businesses. Local Agriculture and Seafood Act grantees were announced at at Farm Fresh Rhode Island in Providence with nearly $20,000 each to help production...

BURRILLVILLE – While locals await a ruling in Rhode Island Superior Court regarding a temporary restraining order on the installation of a synthetic turf field at Burrillville High School, Town Manager Michael Wood says he has taken action to remove one potential delay by submitting an application for major land development for the project, now slated to go before...

BURRILLVILLE – Three local Girl Scouts have published children’s books highlighting their unique personal challenges after working with a Burrillville-based publisher and will earn Silver Awards, the highest award a Girl Scout Cadet can attain, for their work, said Troop Leader Angela Knapp-Levesque. The girls and their families displayed their books and links to the Amazon page where their publications...