About once a year, our newsroom will devote an entire week to award-winning reporting that covers "one square mile," somewhere in Rhode Island or the Southcoast of Massachusetts. One town/location gets in-depth look at variety of stories from a diversity of angles: politics, education, health care, the economy, its character and history.
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OSM locations have included:
- 2019 Pawtucket, RI
- 2018 New Bedford, MA
- 2017 Johnston, RI
- 2015 Burrillville, RI
- 2014 Narragansett Bay
- 2013 Bristol, RI
- 2012 Block Island, RI
- 2011 Woonsocket, RI
- 2010 West Warwick, RI
- 2009 Newport, RI
- 2008 Central Falls, RI
Note: the annual schedule for OSM changed after 2015; for 2016, instead of airing in late fall, it was changed to late winter to accommodate the stories from the 2016 Presidential Election. Hence the "2016" OSM became 2017 instead.
The town of Johnston has been a Democratic stronghold for years, but in 2016 Johnston voters gave Republican Donald Trump a decisive 14 point victory...
Larry and Loretta are my neighbor’s cats. And they love their canned cat food. To understand why just read the ingredients on the label. Ocean white fish. Fish broth. Tuna. Those ingredients are actually fish by-products. Fish guts. Fish livers. Fish intestines. Fish skins. They’re what fish processors like Bergie’s Seafood in call “trash.”
Darn It! Inc. is a company that has thrived because of -- rather than in spite of -- the overseas manufacturing that has put so many American textile...
This week, we bring you the sights and sounds of Burrillville, Rhode Island, with our occasional series One Square Mile. Today we head to Spring Lake,...
This week, a Burrillville couple sued Warner Brothers over the movie “The Conjuring,” claiming it has turned their lives into a nightmare. The couple...
Carlos "The Codfather" Rafael controlled the largest groundfishing fleet in New Bedford. Now he's plead guilty and faces prison. What's next for the city's biggest industry?
Providence Business News Editor Mark Murphy joins Rhode Island Public Radio's Dave Fallon for our weekly business segment, The Bottom Line. This week...
School resource officers, police officers who are embedded in public schools, have become commonplace in Rhode Island. But the practice is under new...
The harbor is one of the largest EPA Superfund sites in the country, and a reminder of the city’s industrial waterfront.
Missed any of our stories about Johnston, Rhode Island? Let us take you there in this special hour from one of the nation's most Italian-American towns.
