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The Westerly Memorial and Public Library was built in 1894 and was designed by Longstaff and Hurd in the Richardson Romanesque Revival style.It was built with funds from Stephen Wilcox in 1892. [3]
Jewish Rhode Island, published monthly and owned by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. Based in Providence, but covering the entire state. Mercury, published monthly and owned by Gatehouse Media. An alternative weekly-style paper covering Rhode Island arts, entertainment and food in Newport and Middletown.
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Ward Jr was a resident of Westerly, Rhode Island, commanding the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the Battle of Rhode Island in 1778. [ 12 ] Slavery became illegal in the new State of Rhode Island in the 1770s to 1780s, with in 1784, the State of Rhode Island passed the Gradual Emancipation Act, stating: “children born ...
A 2022 ad featured McKee's then-94-year-old mother in oversize sunglasses, dishing out commentaries on her then-71-year-old son's performance during his first year and a half as Rhode Island's ...
The Westerly Sun is a seven-day daily newspaper published in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States, covering portions of Washington County, Rhode Island, and New London County, Connecticut. The Sun is issued mornings 7 days a week. Until 1995, it published its Sunday edition in the afternoon, and was the only such paper to do so at that time.
Diponti Communications announced its intention to move the local news and variety programming of WBLQ-LP (96.7 FM, Ashaway, Rhode Island) to WXNI's more powerful AM signal. [5] On November 29, 2009, WXNI changed its call letters to WBLQ; it would begin broadcasting in C-QUAM AM Stereo.
So far this year, 6 companies have filed WARN notices for mass layoffs of RI-based workers, but several did not result in jobs lost.
Wilcox Park was the 1898 bequest of Harriet Wilcox, widow of Stephen Wilcox.The latter invented the non-explosive boiler and founded, along with fellow West'lyan Herman Babcock, the giant engineering firm of Babcock & Wilcox, and was a major funder of the Romanesque Westerly Library, which faces the park and was built in 1892.