Tag: Little Compton
Most-read stories on PBN.com, November 2025
1. R.I. losing more than a business with closure of another foundry POSTED ONLINE: NOV. 28. Friends Foundry of Woonsocket, VIBCO Inc.’s casting partner...
Undeveloped land parcel in Little Compton sells for $6.5M
LITTLE COMPTON – A 31-acre waterfront tract has sold for $6.5 million, the highest price paid for an undeveloped land parcel in the town...
URI graduate’s home services business expanding nationally after partnering with major...
LITTLE COMPTON – Patrick Brown never expected his college leaf-raking business to become a long-term career.
He started Rent Sons in 2010 at the age...
$3.8M in Learn365RI grants awarded across 29 municipalities
PROVIDENCE – Twenty-nine municipalities received a total of $3.8 million in Learn365RI grants to create or expand extended learning programs, with many focusing on...
CRMC approves Sakonnet River transmission line for Massachusetts wind farm
The financial agreements anchoring a 149-turbine offshore wind farm proposed south of Rhode Island have come undone, but that hasn’t stopped state coastal regulators...
Little Compton home sells for $2.2M in highest sale of the...
LITTLE COMPTON – A Little Compton home built in 1997 sold for $2.2 million, making it the highest sale in the town this year,...
RIPTA receives $5M in federal Safe Streets funding
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Transit Authority will receive $5 million to develop a Safe Streets action plan covering 29 communities across the state,...
Murderous 1600s pirate hid out in U.S. colonies with impunity
WARWICK (AP) – One tarnished silver coin at a time, the ground is yielding new evidence that in the late 1600s, one of the...
6 R.I. communities reject cannabis sales; combined $1.4B in local school...
PROVIDENCE – Voters in 25 Rhode Island communities Tuesday approved recreational cannabis sales, while another six rejected allowing pot businesses to set up in...
Mayflower Wind seeks state approval to run cables under Portsmouth
PROVIDENCE – An offshore wind developer wants to run cables up the Sakonnet River and under Aquidneck Island to deliver electricity to Massachusetts' south...
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