The Call & Times

12/07/2025

The Naturalist laces up the holiday boots and hits the trail

A Note to Readers: We may be entering the “most wonderful time of the year,” but on the ridge, we’ve also been smack-dab in the insanely busiest segment of the

12/07/2025

North Attleboro karate instructor receives prestigious honor in Japan

NORTH ATTLEBORO — In the early 1960s, Ed DeCosta was working and looking for something else to do.

12/06/2025

A record 202.9 million consumers shopped during the Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, according to the annual consumer survey, released this week by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights and Analytics. The figure is up from 197 million shoppers last year and surpasses the previous record of 200.4 million set in 2023. The Providence Place Mall was testament to those figures with record crowds all day long Friday. The Call & Times staff photographer Ernest Brown ran into a few of those shoppers on Black Friday at the Providence Place Mall.

12/06/2025

Cape Verdean Museum gala to honor Kim Alves

PAWTUCKET – There will be a lot to do and experience at the Cape Verdean Museum’s 20th Anniversary Gala, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6, at Amigos Da Terceira, 55 Memorial

12/05/2025

Country legend Willie Nelson still going strong at 92

Waylon and Willie. For those who go back aways, namely the duo’s 1978 album of the same name, it no doubt has a nice and very comfortable ring to it.

12/05/2025

RI towns push back on spiraling school bus costs

East greenwich – Rhode Island has 25,000 fewer public school students than it did 20 years ago — yet transportation costs have surged 61% over the past decade.

12/05/2025

Milk Fund Appeal starts the giving season with WOON Radio Auction

WOONSOCKET – The 94th Annual Milk Fund Appeal kicked off with the start of December and is already getting great support from the local community thanks to WOON Radio’s Milk

12/05/2025

Council approves 4-way stop at Carrington Ave. and Bennett St.

WOONSOCKET – Residents have complained about the traffic nightmare in and around the intersection of Carrington Avenue and Bennett Street for months now, but they can breathe easier.

12/05/2025

Santa will visit city’s Winter Wonderland this Saturday, Sunday

PAWTUCKET – City resident Dawn Goff became involved with the Pawtucket Winter Wonderland event back in 1999 on a whim.

12/05/2025

New traffic lights set to go in at Bristol Place plaza

ATTLEBORO — A new set of traffic lights to facilitate cars coming out of Bristol Place plaza on Newport Avenue is set to go in next year.

12/05/2025

Puppets and dancers keep ‘Water’ afloat at PPAC

PROVIDENCE – The phrase, “He ran off and joined the circus,” is an idiom used to describe anyone trying to escape a routine life.

12/05/2025

Terry Lynch didn’t have traveling to Davis, California during the first week of December on his bingo card.