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The Army and Navy YMCA is a historic YMCA building at 50 Washington Square in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a five-story concrete, masonry, and brick building, designed by Louis E. Jallade and erected in 1911 by the Norcross Brothers. It occupies a small, irregularly-shaped city block at the upper end of Washington Square, Newport's historic ...
Washington County, known locally as South County, is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census , the population was 129,839. [ 4 ] Rhode Island counties have no governmental functions other than as court administrative boundaries, which are part of the state government.
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South Kingstown is a town in, and the county seat of, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States.The population was 31,931 at the 2020 census.South Kingstown is the second largest town in Rhode Island by total geographic area, behind New Shoreham, and the third largest town in Rhode Island by geographic land area, behind Exeter and Coventry.
The Old Washington County Jail, today the center's headquarters, was the location of the former Rhode Island Washington County Jail. [4] The Old Jail, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is situated at the crest of the hill on Kingstown Road and Upper College Road at the University of Rhode Island southeastern entrance on Route 138.
Since then, South County Hospital has grown to a 100-bed facility sprawling over 345,000 square feet (32,100 m 2). [6] The oldest building on the campus, housing the President's office, dates back to 1929. [2] South County is 35 miles (56 km) south of Providence, Rhode Island and serves a population of around 100,000. [2]
In 2015, the South County Independent won the Community Newspaper of the Year award from the Rhode Island Press Association. [9] The paper received 5 additional awards that year. Shortly thereafter, the South County Independent and the North East Independent merged to become one paper, The Independent , under managing editor Liz Boardman. [ 7 ]
Independent Newspapers is an independent publisher of a weekly newspaper, The Independent, and a magazine, South County Life, in Washington County, Rhode Island.. The company was founded by veteran newspaper publisher Frederick J. Wilson III in 1997, seeking to "produce a weekly newspaper that would not be beholden to corporate interests."