The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training will collaboarate with General Dynamics Electric Boat to host employment information sessions this month at the Providence and West Warwick netWORKri centers ... In late May, Electric Boat announced it will add 450 jobs at its Quonset Point facility over the next five years ... Currently EB is looking for experienced welders, pipefitters and shipfitters, as well as supervisors. A list of job openings is available at www.gdeb.com/employment/ ...
WARWICK, R.I. -- You again? ... A little over 24 hours after being arrested by state police for a machete tucked under his driver's seat, Gelio Orellana had a friend driving him around early Friday morning ... Trouble was, the state police say, the friend was speeding ... The car attracted a trooper's attention as it sped up Route 95 north just before 3 a.m., said Lt. Kevin Hawkins. And then, Orellana attracted attention when the trooper smelled the odor of marijuana smoke inside the car,
WARWICK, R.I. -- A fire in a small shed spread to two nearby houses in the wee hours of Friday morning, sending families into the street and leaving at least one woman temporarily homeless ... More than two dozen firefighters battled the blaze on Aurora Drive for two hours, extinguishing the fire at the three buildings, while avoiding the dangerous live power lines that had fallen in the driveway, said Battalion Fire Chief David Goslin ... The fire started in a shed behind the house at 142
Great minds working overtime. Plus, honoring ink-stained wretches, and fond farewells ... Your superior correspondents were tempted to invoke the old cliché, “Great minds think alike.” ... ... Your superior correspondents were tempted to invoke the old cliché, “Great minds think alike,” on Tuesday when we noticed that both Edward Fitzpatrick’s political column and Mark Patinkin’s “Pinky column” (well, what else would you call it?) in the Other Paper noted the more than