JAMESTOWN – The historic Beavertail Lighthouse, with its majestic 64-foot tower, is a popular place even when its foghorn issues a throaty warning every 30 seconds.
Visitors explore the Department of Environmental Management’s aquarium exhibits in an adjacent outbuilding and browse through the lighthouse museum, located in the assistant keeper’s cottage.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – It was a meeting for change as the school committee discussed increasing science and social studies in grade 6 at Broad Rock, heard the recommendation for the reconfiguration for the schools and adopted policies changing how teachers are evaluated at Tuesday night’s meeting.