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FAMILY CELEBRATION: Marcia Sprague (center) celebrates her 100th birthday surrounded by family at the Briarcliffe Retirement & Assisted Living facility. (Johnston SunRise photos by Ryan Doherty)
Celebration of her Century — Marcia Sprague of Johnston turns 100
She grew up in Providence and graduated from Mount Pleasant High School. She shares a birth year with Jimmy Carter, Marlon Brando and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. When she was born, a …
LAST YEAR’S RUN: Goodfellas Motorcycle Club President Derek Duffy stood behind the club’s philanthropic donor Bruno Ramieri and organizer Cal Calabro during registration for the group’s 7th annual run.
Goodfellas start their engines for 8th annual Johnston bike run
It would be a difficult task to find another group of motorcyclists with the same passion, dedication and generosity for raising money to fight childhood cancer as Johnston’s Goodfellas …
IN PRINT: Johnston resident Louis B. Ribezzo Jr. recently published his first novel “Roadkill,” a horror-suspense thriller following the haunting adventures of Daniel Lewis, a truck driver and former U.S. Marine.
In debut novel 'Roadkill,' Johnston author Louis B. Ribezzo Jr. tackles the unknown
Johnston resident Louis B. Ribezzo Jr. recently published his first novel “Roadkill,” a horror-suspense thriller following the haunting adventures of Daniel Lewis, a truck driver and …
TOWN CHAMPS: The Russo Law team after winning the Johnston Town Championship. (Submitted photos)
Russo Law wins Town Championship
Russo Law, coached by Gary Rianna, John Amaral and Joseph Lopez, won the 2024 Johnston Jr/Sr League Town Championship. In the best-of-3 championship series, Russo Law swept its opponent Johnston PD, …
OCEAN STATE HALLWAYS: The hallways inside the Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Johnston are lined with more than 130 oversized color prints featuring Ocean State landmarks.
A LOOK INSIDE: Johnston’s new hospital
Two of the 50 private rooms inside the new hospital across Hartford Avenue from Amazon will cater specifically to morbidly obese patients. Inside the pair of specialized rooms await a …
Rambo
Rambo
Listen up!! This boy is all ears and ready to listen to the sounds of a happy forever home! Rambo is a playful pup, just over a year old so fun puppy energy. He likes other playful pups, no kitties …
Hospitalized Cranston man faces multiple charges after 39 West shooting
Modern-day public altercations tend to follow an increasingly familiar formula. Tensions escalate. A circle forms. Cell phones, cameras lit, turn toward the drama. The drama escalates …
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Johnston Police respond to fatal crash on Hartford Avenue
A Greenville woman died from injuries suffered in a crash on Hartford Avenue during heavy rain on Thursday night. Around midnight, Thursday, July 18, Johnston Police responded to the vicinity of …
SIGNS AGAINST CHANGE: Keri Dennison-Leidecker, who lives at 200 Shun Pike, noted all the yellow signs around the proposed site. “Notably, the signs displayed throughout our entire neighborhood express a collective sentiment against this development,” she told the Johnston Planning Board last week.
Shun Pike single-family homeowners in Johnston square off against affordable housing condo developer
They learned to live with the solar fields and sky-scraping windmills. But 32 condos — 16 restricted to low- and moderate-income households, and 16 market rate units —neighbors …
EMPTY REGISTERS: On Tuesday evening, the Stop & Shop at 11 Commerce Way in Johnston was nearly empty, except for employees. The grocery store chain announced last week that the store will be one of 32 “underperforming stores by year-end.”
Johnston’s Stop & Shop chopped
On Tuesday evening, around 6 p.m., the long row of registers at Stop & Shop in Johnston was empty. There were clearly more employees than customers in the store. By early November, the …
Ken
Ken
Attention Husky lovers!! This handsome boy appropriately named Ken because he is a doll, is ready to join your family! Ken is a year and a half old with the brightest blue eyes you've ever seen! He …
CHECKING THINGS OUT: Beltone Cranston Hearing Care Practitioner Sara Andreozzi, looking at a patient’s ear
Hearing aids helping to increase life expectancy
For many, hearing aids are necessary to communicate. The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California did a study on the effect of hearing loss in relation …

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TWO ARRESTED: Cranston Police arrested two — Destiny Torres and Edwin Torres — after the early morning July 5 stabbing of a teenager and run-down murder of a 21-year-old in the area of Oak and Trainor streets.

Cranston Police witness holiday murder after brawl and stabbing of 15-year-old

CPD seeks stolen car that fled from traffic stop
FAST FALL: Ex-Ward 6 Cranston City Councilman Matthew Reilly was arrested on drug charges on May 15, 2023, after police found him asleep behind the wheel. Last week, the AG’s Office announced the resigned councilor has been indicted on multiple child molestation counts. This image is a screenshot from the body-worn camera footage from the arresting officer during Reilly’s first arrest. Just weeks later, he was arrested again, on child molestation charges (that ultimately yielded last week’s Providence County Grand Jury indictments.

AG: Former Cranston City Councilman Matthew Reilly indicted on multiple child molestation counts

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