URI PhD students study phytoplankton in Narragansett Bay
Abby Baskind, a doctoral student in oceanography at URI, studies phytoplankton in Narragansett Bay.
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A high-ranking Rhode Island Department of Corrections official was arrested Wednesday and charged with producing or attempting to produce child pornography at a Cranston home last month.
Seth Crosby, the agency’s deputy director of special investigations, was also charged with one count of video voyeurism, according to a press release.
Crosby later appeared in Warwick District Court, where a prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Guglielmo, told a judge that the charges stem from the 46-year-old Cranston resident’s involvement in two incidents involving his cellphone and the activities of minors, one in July and the other in 2021.
Crosby is on leave, according to Justice Department spokesman JR Ventura. Crosby’s attorney said he and his client would be happy to “challenge the facts that the state police rely on to establish a probable cause of action in the case.”
Crime: Rhode Island State Police Arrest High-Ranking Corrections Officer for Crimes Against Children
Cranston is currently the only city in Rhode Island where the two major political parties are still battling for control of city government, including a contentious mayoral election.
Against this background, Political Scene Alpine Estates, the affluent housing development west of Cranston where a developer’s plans to build eight homes have roiled city hall for five years.
The Democratic-controlled City Council failed by one vote last month to override Republican Mayor Ken Hopkins’ veto of a zoning change that would have allowed the homes to be built, ending a legal battle. Now the legal battle is heating up again. a microcosm of the housing struggles across the state.
Political scene: How housing and this Cranston neighborhood became a political minefield
The Coastal Resources Management Council was it is wrong to order a Barrington couple to allow the public to use their leveesaid a Supreme Court judge, calling the council’s reasoning “nonsensical.”
The verdict is a victory for Holly and Lance Sheffieldwho purchased a $4.5 million waterfront home on Nayatt Road in 2021.
Without the Sheffields knowing, a CRMC permit from 1982 required the homeowners to maintain a walkable public walkway along the seawall. The The permit was never entered in the land registry documentstherefore, it did not show up when the couple conducted a title search, and only came to light years later after the Sheffields put up a fence and “No Trespassing” signs.
The CRMC council voted in December to dismiss the charges against the couple, but said they must allow the public to use their levee. Read more to see why the judge considered the CRMC’s decision to be “arbitrary, capricious and vitiated by an error of law.”
Access to the shore: “Nonsense”: Judge sides with Barrington couple who want to keep people away from their levee
One story describes a letter that Private Eugene C. Santos wrote to his parents in Providence about his horrific first experience with an air raid while serving in the Pacific during World War II.
In one photo, Navy Seabee Anthony Amaral is seen holding a copy of the Providence Journal-Bulletin with two other Rhode Island Seabees and an islander about 9,200 miles from the Ocean State.
Many of the other stories were written by Journal writer Charles H. Spilman, who followed members of the Rhode Island National Guard during their combat in the Southwest Pacific as part of the Army’s 43rd Division.
Spilman, who later became editor-in-chief of the Providence Journal-Bulletin and won a Pulitzer Prize, compiled several scrapbooks with his and other reports from Rhode Islanders who served in the Pacificincluding stories from legendary war correspondents Ernie Pyle and Richard Tregaskis.
Now this Scrapbooks are on display at the International Museum of World War II in South Kingstownwhere, according to the museum’s founder, they help tell the story of the important role Rhode Islanders played in the war.
Veterans: Scrapbooks purchased at auction describe the path to Victory Day and the role of Rojava in World War II
Daniel Morris lives in Providence, but it is a long It bothered him that there were many parts of his city that he had never ventured intoor just drove past quickly by car or bicycle. Now he has jumped in with both feet to do something about it, with a The aim is to explore every street and alley of the capital.
What has he discovered so far? And what does he hope to achieve from his urban odyssey other than “calves of steel”? Columnist Mark Patinkin accompanied him one day to find out.
Mark Patinkin: Step by step, Daniel Morris embarks on a journey to get to know Providence better.
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