Millions of dollars for transportation, beaches, clean water, child care, the arts, subsidized housing and facilities at state colleges and Quonset are on the ballot for the March 2 special statewide referendum.

Early voting on Rhode Island’s $400 million in bond questions began Feb. 10.

The first question on the ballot asks voters to spend $107.3 million for work at the Community College of Rhode Island ($12 million), Rhode Island College ($38 million) and the Fine Arts Center at the University of Rhode Island ($57.3 million).

Snow-covered sidewalks in South Kingstown have prompted officials to take another look at how the town keeps the pedestrian walkways safe and to discuss ways to get property owners to pitch in and help keep them clear.

Joe “Tiger” Patrick knows for sure the VFW’s food box is important to at least one indigent, sickly and out-of-work man — who also lives in a tent in the woods.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post’s “Mickey Box,” as the roadside food box is known, on High Street is for this homeless man like a grocery store because every day is a day of need.

The housing crunch facing southern Rhode Island has prompted a local nonprofit to take action that, it said, will help area families.

The Jonnycake Center for Hope announced recently that it has purchased four multi-unit dwellings in Peace Dale.

The North Kingstown Town Council met Monday night via Zoom and took up several issues, including a series of neighborhood complaints regarding street parking in a cul-de-sac, the need or lack thereof for a stop sign at a neighborhood intersection, and concerns regarding a seven-day live entertainment license for a popular local hangout.

Sandi Gardner is proud of the U.S. space mission to Mars — as only a mother can  be — after seeing her son, Nate, help to make the recent landing there a success.

While North Kingstown is a long, long way from Mars, she watched eagerly as the mission showed that a critical technology for the heat shield, which her son helped to test the reliability of, protected the Mars Perseverance rover during launch and landing.