Second Baptist Church of North Stonington
WESTERLY — The Ninigret Quilters will celebrate "40 Years of a Quilting Community" this weekend with the Ruby Jubilee Quilt Show, featuring more than 120 quilts made by members, basket raffles aplenty, each with its own quilt-related theme, and the "Ruby Jubilee Raffle Quilt."
NEW LONDON — Fans of Eugene O'Neill can celebrate the famed playwright's 133rd birthday at a special event Saturday at New London's historic Thames Club.
WESTERLY — Two well-known local poets will celebrate poetry this month at Savoy Bookshop and Café, beginning Tuesday with Margaret Gibson, who has served as Connecticut's poet laureate since 2019, and continuing Oct. 26 with Westerly's Gunilla Norris.
The Granite Theatre officially welcomed audiences back for live stage performances last Friday with an engaging opening-night performance of "The Haunting of Hill House," a "horror drama" based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 gothic ghost novel of the same name.
WARWICK — The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (the Gamm) has launched a new program in partnership with Rhode Island’s public institutions of higher education.
NEW LONDON — How can we best take care of the beauty around us? How do we become responsible stewards of the earth with a global climate crisis and democracy on the brink? How do we use the gifts that have been given to us to make the world a better place? How do we properly value and protec…
Thursday, Oct. 14
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Mark Robinson, pictured here with his three sons David, Will and James at the Marine Corps Memorial in Washington D.C., was recognized recently by BSA Troop 9 Pawcatuck for his devotion and service to the troop as the scoutmaster for the past six years. During his tenure the troop has undert…
Grade five students at Saint Michael School hold the signs they made to celebrate "Happy International Day of Peace." Their lesson was how they could all be "Peacemakers and how God calls us all to be more like him in our words and our actions."
Olde Mistick Village management, merchants association, festival vendors and sponsors, raised funds for Always Home of Mystic and presented the organization with a $6,000 check from funds raised during its 14th annual Garlic Festival. Always Home’s goal for the past 20 years has been to keep…
This year's 15th Westerly Armory Pitch Tournament, held in September and seen in the first photo, was set up with pandemic precautions for the safety of the players in mind. The second photo is of the two winning two-man teams, left to right: Team 1, Pete Brayman and Walt Startz; and Team 2,…
Thanks to Byron Brown, we have the following photo of the 1951 Westerly Little League Sportsman's Club League Champions. From left, front row: Byron Brown, Thomas Terranova, Gerald Durry and David Grills; middle row: James LaPietra, Robert Greig, William Lazerek, Wayne Lawrence, Michael Sadd…
Greetings dear friends and kind readers and welcome back for our Indigenous Peoples Day visit here on the Front Porch where the sun rose this morning at 6:55 and will set at 6:12 p.m. and where we are mourning the loss of Pat and Austin Murphy, two mighty, much-loved pillars of the Westerly …
Aaron Calouro and Marisa Zerbarini of Westerly; Benjamin Logel of Pawcatuck; Molly Lang and Sara McKnight of Mystic; and Audrey Jones of Mashantucket were named to the dean’s list at Mitchell College for the spring 2021 semester.
AGE: 39.
Sometimes it seems realtors use the same adjectives over and over to describe the properties they have listed. Beautiful, spacious, charming, cozy ... well, you know. You've seen them, you've read them.
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The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Warwick is welcoming audiences back to live theater following an 18-month pandemic pause with "A Lie Agreed Upon," a powerful, riveting, thought-provoking and timely production of Henrik Ibsen's 1882 political drama, "An Enemy of the People."
WESTERLY — Christine "Beehive Queen" Ohlman and Rebel Montez will be joined by the CarLeans, Kala Farnham & Co and the Midnight Anthem when they return to the Knickerbocker Music Center Sunday for "Women's Voices 4," a concert and performance showcase to benefit the Institute for the Mus…
HOPKINTON — The annual HopArts Studio Trail — a self-guided driving tour of artists' studios through Richmond, Hopkinton and surrounding areas that showcases the work of 25 local artists and artisans — returns next weekend for its 15th anniversary.
MYSTIC — Mystic Seaport's Riverfest celebration — a weekend filled with folk and sea music, topped off with a pub-sing — will kick off Saturday morning with Westerly's own Geoffrey Kaufman singing along with fellow musicians David Littlefield and Joseph Morneault.
WESTERLY — The Granite Theatre officially opens this weekend and returns to live stage performances with in-theater audiences with "The Haunting of Hill House," a play based on the chilling novel by Shirley Jackson.
PROVIDENCE — "Pretty Woman: The Musical," based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time, will kick off its national tour this weekend at Providence Performing Arts Center.
NEW LONDON — Gary Allan Poe is probably not related to Edgar Allan Poe, but he is related to an Undersheriff of Nottingham. He has also created quite the program to commemorate the 172nd anniversary of the death of Edgar Allan Poe, and plans to share it this weekend at The Thames Club in New…
Thursday, Oct. 7
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The United Theatre's Youth Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of their ensemble teacher, Ryan Piccolo, performed in the newly opened Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School at the United Theatre in August. The students, all from local middle and high schools, spent six weeks rehearsing and le…
The Academy of the Holy Family in Baltic, Connecticut, celebrated Peace One Day last month with a visit from Azra Jafar, the first female mayor in Afghanistan. School Principal Henry Fiore said that Jafar explained to the students how hard she worked for women's rights in Afghanistan, and al…
Ocean State Job Lot’s recent “Buy-Give-Get” program has resulted in the collection of 30,000 backpacks, all of which are being donated to the children in need for the 2021-2022 school year.
Greetings dear friends and kind readers and welcome back for our first October 2021 visit here on the Front Porch, where the sun rose this morning at 6:47, will set at 6:24 p.m., and where we are marveling at the amazing autumn and early Halloween decorations popping up in front yards and on…
The following local students received Bachelor degrees from the University of Rhode Island: Charlestown residents Christopher Charles Alexander, Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering; Jeffrey Barnas, Bachelor of Science cum laude in civil engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in psychol…
AGE: 26.
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WESTERLY — The Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly will host its annual "All Members’ Show" throughout the month of October.
WESTERLY — Westerly artist Nan Young returns to the Westerly Library's Hoxie Gallery for her third exhibit of photographs, a show that opens with a reception on Oct. 6 and runs through Oct. 28.
STONINGTON — Thanks to a grant from Connecticut Humanities, an event created to showcase ocean-related documentaries will take place this weekend at the Velvet Mill in Stonington.
UNCASVILLE — Three-time Grammy Award-winning and multiplatinum-selling group Pentatonix will bring its holiday spirit to Mohegan Sun Arena in December with "Pentatonix: The Evergreen Christmas Tour 2021."
WESTERLY — The fascinating, brilliant — plus award-winning — American playwright Sarah Ruhl (you'll remember her for her plays "In the Next Room" (or the "Vibrator Play"), "The Clean House" and "Eurydice") will be in Westerly next Tuesday.
WESTERLY — The Salt Marsh Opera will bring one of the most famous operas in the world to the United Theatre this weekend when it presents Georges Bizet "Carmen."
Thursday, Sept. 30
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AmpSurf, a unique all inclusive program created to bring the healing power of the ocean through adaptive surf therapy to folks with disabilities, held an adaptive surf clinic at Fenway Beach last week, which was well-attended and well-staffed by an army of volunteers. It was also well-photog…
As promised in last week's Front Porch News, here are some photos of family members and friends of Westerly resident Sara Lucia Rekstis at the opening night of her art exhibit at the Art Space Gallery in Norwich.
Greetings dear readers and fine friends and welcome back to the Front Porch for our first visit of fall 2021 and our final visit of September, where the sun rose this morning at 6:40, will set at 6:35 p.m., and where we are celebrating (with joy, love and happiness) the arrival of several ne…
The following local students received Bachelor degrees from the University of Rhode Island: Charlestown residents Christopher Charles Alexander, Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering; Jeffrey Barnas, Bachelor of Science cum laude in civil engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in psychol…
NAME: Angeline Lanzetta-Gaultieri.
The Pilgrim’s Baptist Church
MYSTIC — Connecticut Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson will be the featured poet Sunday at the Arts Café Mystic's September event, which will also include music from the much-loved local musicians known as the River Gods along with a poetry reading from Vivian Shipley.
PROVIDENCE — Three new artists will join Trinity Repertory Company’s resident company in the 2021-22 season.
WESTERLY — In what has become somewhat of a local blues tradition, a pair of giants will join forces at the Knick next week for a show predicted to be a "barnburner" by the folks at the Knick.