On the morning of April 24, approximately 250 athletes will arrive at the track and field facilities at Rogers High School in Newport. During the next few weeks, Special Olympics teams from around Rhode Island will be preparing for the East Bay Area Games to be hosted this year by the Salve Regina East Bay Area Games Special Olympics Committee, chaired by Carla Lyder.

Every day, we breathe 20,000 times. Spending 10 minutes at Java Bob’s could make a couple hundred of those breaths more potent, oxygenated and flavorful since he added an oxygen bar to his internet caf

Prior to Thursday, March 25, 2004, this coming Easter Weekend, April 8 -11, 2004, seemed to be routine and without any major travel trouble besides the usual areas of traffic congestion. That night, Connecticut media outlets reported that a fiery tanker crashed on the southbound side of Interstate 95, near exit 26, and the resulting fire melted the elevated highway between exits 24 and 27 in Bridgeport, Conn.

Kerrin D’Agnelli, a junior at Salve, is captain of the women’s soccer team, and although her high profile position at the university leaves her well known, there’s a softer side to the girl who shows brute force when on the playing field.

Harold Mathews, property supervisor at the Elms, one of Newport’s grandest mansions, has battled the sea nearly every day for the past 20 years. The reason? The ocean is a large concern for all those who look after the Newport mansions, especially on warm days.