Sakonnet Times

09/26/2025

Update: Thanksgiving game still on

NOTE: The original story has been updated with clarification on the Thanksgiving game and background information: The Tiverton Tigers varsity football team’s 2025 season is all but over, …

09/26/2025

As Mark Twain said about reports of his demise being greatly exaggerated ...

The Tiverton Tigers varsity football team has forfeited its remaining games this season but will return next year, despite an online report Friday morning that suggested the team was "done." An …

07/07/2025

More from Thursday's events

Last Thursday afternoon, about 20 people parked their cars along Swamp Road as Officer Josh Rego, a lifelong Little Compton resident who joined the force last December, directed traffic around them. …

06/30/2025

The court record shows that prosecutors last Friday dismissed a misdemeanor theft charge against an Acushnet woman accused of stealing hundreds of dollars’ worth of herbs from a roadside stand …

06/24/2025

Reports are that Little Compton Budget Committee chairman George Crowell resigned his post Monday afternoon, four days before the town council was set to decide whether to re-appoint him to the …

06/24/2025

Doing some research on the movies and came across a cool Hollywood website. This may be computer-generated, but it seems to ring true these days.

06/20/2025

Members of the Little Compton Town Council will decide who fills the last of three budget committee seats, after incumbent George Crowell and challenger Scott W. Lewis tied for third place in non-partisan …

06/19/2025

Lights, cameras, action! Hollywood is coming to Little Compton. Crews filming M. Night Shyamalan’s new film, “Remain,” are expected in Adamsville Friday and later, Sakonnet …

06/18/2025

The tax levy will rise 12 percent in Little Compton after voters at Tuesday's annual Financial Town Meeting overwhelmingly approved an $18.3 million municipal and school budget for the 2025-26 fiscal …

06/18/2025

Budget passes, 12 percent levy increase. More to come.

06/17/2025

Town Meeting hasn’t started yet … big crowd.