Bill Seymour

One question on a local social media page produced a familiar civic split that is often asked, though answers offer twists of their own about “the right direction.”

Author Kim Hanson holds her latest book, “The Bridgeport Story” open to her biography page, which features a recent photo of her with her father.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — A testy South Kingstown Town Council meeting has aired frustrations with Veolia water company over communication, rain barrels and the hunt for new wells.

The fire has burned since Sunday. It has not gone out through rain or nightfall, and it will not until Jordan Scott Monroe is laid to rest.

Rhode Island beachgoers may one day get a shark-attack warning on their phones under a new federal law.

GFWC Women’s Club of South County members are pictured at the Dune’s Club in Narragansett during the club’s Annual Book & Author Luncheon last year.

Walk through the door on Kingstown Road, and the New England storefront falls away at Extreme Airsoft.

Steve Schimmel, of South Kingstown holds a photograph of the U.S.S. Providence, a guided-missile cruiser that he served on during the Vietnam War.

For most property owners, the tax bill is the face — and hand — of town government. That annual forget-me-not mailer has arrived in recent weeks for its “remember me”

Wendi Knowles, left, of Wakefield, enjoys playing with her granddaughter, Aria Sherman, and her mother, Elizabeth Perkins, in her backyard pool Tuesday. Knowles grew up in a house with a pool and said she has always preferred them to swimming at the beach.