One Square Mile
Summary: About once a year, our newsroom will devote an entire week to award-winning reporting that covers "one square mile," somewhere in Rhode Island, from a diversity of angles: politics, education, health care, the economy, its character and history. OSM locations have included: 2014 Narragansett Bay 2013 Bristol 2012 Block Island 2011 Woonsocket 2010 West Warwick 2009 Newport 2009 Central Falls
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Monday we renew a tradition at Rhode Island Public Radio: our recurring series "One Square Mile." It’s designed to take you deep inside one Rhode Island community and bring you insights about the people and places of the Ocean State.
Virtually all Rhode Islanders have at least a loose connection to the town of Johnston. Almost all of your junk -- trash, dried out Christmas trees, even used paint -- winds up at the Johnston Landfill. Those items are all sorted and processed in different parts of the sprawling complex.
In early 1860, Abraham Lincoln came to Rhode Island gathering support for his presidential campaign. He stopped in Providence and Woonsocket. and there's a rumor that he also visited Burrillville's Western Hotel, a popular stagecoach stop on the Douglas Turnpike. For the final installment in our series One Square Mile: Burrillville, Rhode Island Public Radio's Chuck Hinman takes us to the Western Hotel, in the village of Nasonville, in the town's southeast corner. It turns out, this hotel has
This week, a Burrillville couple sued Warner Brothers over the movie “The Conjuring,” claiming it has turned their lives into a nightmare. The couple lives in the house that the supernatural thriller is based on. They claim their peace and quiet has been ruined by trespassers trying to check out their supposedly haunted property. Well, it turns out that tales about “The Conjuring” house are among several ghost stories told in Burrillville.
Providence Business News Editor Mark Murphy joins Rhode Island Public Radio's Dave Fallon for our weekly business segment, The Bottom Line. This week Mark and Dave chat with Burrillville Economic Development Director Thomas Kravitz about encouraging growth while maintaining the town's rural character and historic mill villages. This week's episode of The Bottom Line is part of our series One Square Mile: Burrillville. When to listen: You can hear The Bottom Line each Friday at 5:50 p.m. Do you
Addieville East Farm in Burrillville, Rhode Island is a haven for sport hunting, and has gained an international reputation. And as part of our Series One Square Mile: Burrillville, Rhode Island Public Radio’s John Bender reports, running this massive operation is labor of love.
School resource officers, police officers who are embedded in public schools, have become commonplace in Rhode Island. But the practice is under new scrutiny after a controversial incident in South Carolina, where an officer dragged a high school student from her chair, flipping the student and her desk onto the floor in the process. In Burrillville , Officer David Beauchemin takes what I would describe as a community policing approach to the district's five public schools. In this excerpt from
