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COVENTRY, RI — Not long after Suzy Quattrocchi and Town Council members cut the ribbon at Suzy Q’s Summit General, 25 Old Summit Road, more than 100 hungry people from […]
![[CREDIT: Town of Coventry] The Coventry Town Council discusses expanding access to full town solicitor invoices to the entire council and alerting the council when departments exceed budgets by 5 percent.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coventry-Town-Council-April-21-Solicitor-Invoices-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — The Coventry Town Council voted April 22 to expand access to town solicitor invoices to the entire council and to mandate a review when departments threaten to […]
![[CREDIT: Machado] Machado IT, led by 1988 Oaker and veteran Helder Machado, is expanding its Rhode Island operations.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Machado-IT-Solutions-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WORCESTER, MA — Quality IT solutions aren’t just a Fortune 500 concern, a principle Machado IT, led by 1988 Oaker and veteran Helder Machado, has followed as the successful firm […]
![CREDIT: Tow of Coventry] Expanding solicitor invoices access doesn't make them more open to public access, a laywer points out.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coventry-Town_hall-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry Dist. 1 Councilman Jonathan Pascua’s legislation expanding redacted solicitor invoices access to all Council members still leaves the confidential information protected as an exemption to the […]
![[CREDIT: Town of Coventry] Bob Brennan, Coventry resident who served on the town’s charter review commission, reiterated Angell’s repeated warnings at previous meetings against allowing all Council members access to unredacted solicitor invoices.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Solicitor-Invoices-April-8-Bob-Brennan-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Two resigned Town Councilmen missed a lot of drama about their mission to give all councilors un-redacted solicitor invoices April 8 and more explanations about what a bad […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Solicitor Stephen Angell tells the April 8 Town Council crowd that he reported Councilman Scott Copley's threat to "skull fuck" Council President Hilary Lima.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Scott-Copley-Skull-Fuck-Threat-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — During Tuesday’s Coventry Town Council meeting discussing two councilmen’s resignations, Solicitor Stephen Angel told an angry crowd that one of those two, Dist. 5 Councilman Scott Copley, […]
![[CREDIT: WP Composite] A dispute over redacted invoices from the Town Solicitor has resulted in two empty seats as the Coventry Town Councilmen resign. From left, Dist. 3 Councilman James LeBlanc and Dist. 5 Councilman Scott Copley.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coventry-Town-Councilmen-Resign-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Tomorrow’s Coventry Town Council meeting will be short Dist. 3 and and Dist. 5 representatives after the two Town Councilmen resigned Monday, protesting stonewalled attempts to access […]
KENT COUNTY— Kent County arrests in the RI Trooper Log March 28 -April 5 involved charges for DUI, reckless driving and stolen vehicle possession. Here are the basics on those […]
![[CREDIT: Denise Brown] Hopkins Hill Fire Chief Frank Brown delivers a farewell salute during his last day before retiring as Hopkins Hill Fire Chief.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Brown-Retires-2-03-21-25-250x228.jpeg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Today, retired Hopkins Hill Fire Chief Frank Brown and wife Denise are bound for Aruba after celebrating the last day of his 49 years safeguarding his hometown […]
![[CREDIT: Desiree Fournier] Peanut, family dog, alerted her family to a Town Farm Road Fire that destroyed their home and all their belongings. A Gofundme has been started to help them as they recover.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Peanut-Town-Farm-Road-Fire-March-11-25-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — At about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Raymond Fournier, 19, was asleep when the family dog, Peanut, let out an unusual bark at their home, waking him to a […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The U.S. Court in Providence. A Providence man will be sentenced July 24 for his admitted part in a Land Rover credit fraud scheme in RI & NH.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/US-Courthouse-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE – A Florida man who frequently lived in Coventry, RI admitted to a federal judge Wednesday that he illegally possessed a semi-automatic weapon modified to function as a fully […]
COVENTRY, RI —The Coventry Town Council unanimously passed a resolution urging the General Assembly to enact legislation authorizing town Coventry Schools deficit oversight. In a statement about the resolution from […]
![[CREDIT: RIDE] Coventry Schools math program test results on the RICAS show a steady improvement in math proficiency.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Coventry-Schools-Math-Program-grant-250x228.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Gov. Dan McKee and RIDE Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green met school and community leaders at Providence’s Asa Messer Elementary School Thursday, announcing $2.8 million in Learn365RI grants, with […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Coventry Police have identified Heather Boisvert, 26, of Coventry, as the person found dead in 2023.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Heather-Boisvert-Death-investigation-CPD-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry Police have identified the body found by hikers in the Truman Heights Conservation Area April 29, 2023 as of Heather Boisvert, 26, and ask help investigating […]
![[CREDIT: RISP:] State Police have charged two RI men with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of a pregnant Brockton, MA woman.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Carbuncle-Pond-Murder-Suspects-Charged-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Two Rhode Island men have been found guilty in Kent County Superior Court for the Carbuncle Pond murder of Leila Duarte DaLuz, whose body was recovered from […]
COVENTRY, RI — The Coventry Town Council, expanded by two at-large members and sporting a new Dist. 5 councilor, ended its first 2025 meeting urging fiscal control of the Coventry […]
![[CREDIT: WPD] Petrina Lunardelli, 48, of Coventry, R.I., was charged with simple assault in the case of a 2024 Tiogue student assault.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Lunardelli-Tiogue-student-assault-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — A teaching assistant will be arraigned for a Tiogue student assault in Third District Court Jan. 22. On Dec. 13, Coventry Police officers responded to Tiogue Elementary […]
![[CREDIT: RIIL] George Egan, championship Ponaganset and Coventry High Schools hockey coach and former CHS Assistant Principal died Dec.26, 2024. He was 85 years old. COVENTRY, RI — Members of Coventry schools and athletics are mourning championship Ponaganset and Coventry High Schools hockey coach and former CHS Assistant Principal George Egan after his death Dec. 26, at 85. "It is with great sadness that the RIIL shares the news of the passing of George Egan, who spent the past five-plus decades serving Rhode Island high school student-athletes as an educator, hockey coach, statistician, sport director and much more," the Rhode Island Interscholastic League wrote on their Tumblr account Dec. 29 following word of Egan's death.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/George-Egan-Coventry-Schools-feat-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Members of Coventry schools and athletics are mourning championship Ponaganset and Coventry High Schools hockey coach and former CHS Assistant Principal George Egan after his death Dec. […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Coventry Firefighters were called to 38 King St. Dec. 1 for a report of smoke, finding a faulty fridge instead.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Coventry-Firefighters-38-King-St.-2-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry firefighters and trucks from West Warwick responded to a call for smoke in the basement at 38 King St. Dec. 1 at about 3:40 p.m., […]
![[CREDIT: CPD] Coventry Police ask the public to help them search for missing person John Anderson, last seen leaving his home on foot Nov. 19.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Coventry-Police-Missing-John-Anderson-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry Police are asking the public’s help finding missing person John Anderson, last seen leaving his home for a walk Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. without his […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Coventry Town Manager Dan Parrillo speaks about Coventry's Road Repair efforts aided by Gov. Dan McKee's RoadRestore program.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Coventry-Road-Repair-RoadRestore-Project-Feat-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI – Governor Dan McKee, RIDOT Director Peter Alviti, Jr., Town Manager Dan Parrillo and other officials met at Gamm Theater last month to announce $3.2 million matching RhodeRestore […]
![[CREDIT: LPPIB] Rep. Thomas Noret, center, is presented with the MADD Legislator of the Year award Friday morning by Program Director Wesley Pennington, left, and Program Manager Jennifer O’Neil at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Noret-MADD-Legislator-of-the-Year-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
STATE HOUSE — The Rhode Island chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) presented Rep. Thomas E. Noret (D-Dist. 25, Coventry, West Warwick) with its Legislator of the Year award […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] A line of political signs outside the Coventry Town Hall Annex on Flat River Road across from Town Hall Tuesday, Nov. 5. It was still hours before Coventry 2024 Election Results were in.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Coventry-Election-2024-turnout-4-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — By 11 p.m., with all precincts reporting, Coventry was poised to add RIDOT Associate Director JP Verducci and Hopkins Hill Fire Chief Frank Brown to new at-large […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] A voter makes his choices during the 2014 primary. The 2024 primary in Warwick advanced two School Committee incumbents and Ward 7 hopeful Stephen Mulcahey to the Nov. 5 election.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Warwick-primary-Results-voter1-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Tuesday is election day, and many Coventry 2024 election voters have already cast their ballots, by early or mail-in voting, but whether you’re voting in person, by […]
![[CREDIT: Capaldi for Dist. 2] Alisa Capaldi, appointed in March, is running in the Coventry Dist. 2 race.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Alisa-Capaldi-Coventry-Dist.-2-race-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Incumbent Town Councilor Alisa Capaldi, appointed unanimously in March to fill the Dist. 2 seat after Jennifer Ludwig’s resignation, is running for her first elected term in […]
![[CREDIT: Cheryl Kane campaign] Cheryl Kane is running to represent Dist. 2 in the 2024 Town Council race.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Cheryl-Kane-Coventry-Town-Council-Dist-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Cheryl Kane, Coventry resident since 1964, a clerk in various positions with the Town Clerk and Finance offices for 33 years, is in the Coventry Dist. 2 […]
![[CREDIT: Grattan for Dist. 5] Mike Grattan is running for in the Coventry Dist. 5 race for town council.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Grattan-Coventry-Dist.-5-race-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Michael Grattan, Coventry resident for 29 years, Commercial Manager of A. B. Munroe Dairy who raised two kids in town with his wife, Amy, took notice of […]
![[CREDIT: Scott Copley for Dist. 5] Scott Copley, is running in the Coventry Dist. 5 Race.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Scott-Copley-Coventry-Dist.5-Race-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Scott Copley, Coventry resident for 13 years, tells readers of his Facebook page his Coventry Dist. 5 Council race run was prompted by a desire to challenge […]
![[CREDIT: Blais for Town Council At-Large] Leo R. Blais, former state senator, is in the Coventry Town Council at-large race.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Blais-Coventry-Town-Council-Race-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Leo R. Blais, resident since 1962, who served Coventry, Scituate & Foster for 18 years in the RI Senate, started his Coventry At-Large Council race to serve […]
![[CREDIT: Verducci for Coventry Town Council] John Paul, "JP Verducci, a candidate in the Coventry At-Large Council race.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Verducci-Coventry-Town-Council-250x228.jpeg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — John-Paul “JP” Verducci, lifelong Coventry resident, associate director for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, decided on his Coventry At-Large Council race run after experiencing the town’s poor […]
![[CREDIT: Brown for At-Large Council] Frank Brown, Hopkins Hill Fire Chief, retiring in March, is running in the Coventry At-Large Council race.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Brown-Coventry-Town-Council-Race-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Frank Brown, lifelong Coventry resident and Hopkins Hill Fire Chief for nearly 50 years, retiring March 2025, entered the Coventry At-Large Council race to continue serving the […]
![[CREDIT: Mary Carlos] Police have charged the driver in an 109 Hopkins Hill Road DUI crash Oct. 12 into two parked vehicles.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Hopkins-Hill-Road-DUI-Crash-Oct.-12-3-250x228.jpeg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry Police charged a West Warwick man in a 109 Hopkins Hill DUI crash into two parked cars Friday at 3:30 a.m. that injured the driver and […]
![[CREDIT: CPD] Coventry Police warn motorists will find Hopkins Hill Road closed Tuesday and Wednesday.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Hopkins-Hill-Road-Closed-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry Police announced Monday that motorists should plan to find Hopkins Hill Road closed between 6 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday as utilities are installed […]
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry arrests and other Kent County arrests in the RI Trooper Log Sept. 12 – 19 involved charges for disorderly conduct, shoplifting, cocaine and amphetamine possession. Here are […]
COVENTRY, RI — When officials meet to discuss remedies to the $5 million Coventry Schools Deficit Oct. 9, they’ll be catching up with audits, otherwise sound fiscal standing, and five […]
COVENTRY, RI — RI Auditor General David Bergantino has sent a formal letter asking for a meeting with Municipal and School officials, including Council and School Committee representatives, to deal […]
COVENTRY, RI — As the town catches up on long-overdue fiscal audits, RI Auditor General David Bergantino calls for a meeting with officials to discuss a corrective plan for an […]
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry arrests and other Kent County arrests in the RI Trooper Log Sept. 2 – 5 involved charges for reckless driving, Adderall and prohbited firearms possession, and DUI. […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Cathy Cudoni supervised her grandson, Lincoln, 2, in some inflatable axe-throwing courtesy of Bing's Backyard Bash during Granparent's Day at the Coventry Town Annex Saturday.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Coventry-grandparents-day-4-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — The town’s grandparents’ day featured bounce house amusements, vendors, food and free photos for all on the field of the Town Hall Annex on Flat River Road […]
![[CREDIT: CPD] Coventry Police Headquarters at 60 Wood St, Coventry, RI. There were 31 CPD arrests in August 2024.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CPD-arrests-coventry-arrests-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — August 2024 CPD arrests included charges for DUI, animal cruelty, cyberstalking, sexual assault and illegal weapons. Coventry Police made 31 arrests during this period. Below are the […]
