Would you like to post events, announcements and blogs to South Kingstown Patch? Or even Narragansett Patch? Or Narragansett-South Kingstown Patch? Keep this article handy each time there is something you'd like to share with our community. To post events to the site for free: navigate to the Events page and click “Add an Event” on the right side of the page. Tell us all the details about your upcoming event, then click “post my event” at the bottom of the page. That puts the event directly on our calendar. The end result is the same as if a Patch staffer had posted it for you. The only …

So, as part of running Narragansett-South Kingstown Patch, I subscribe to Google Alerts for a couple keywords – Narragansett, South Kingstown, Prout, and importantly for this article, the University of Rhode Island. Most days, what I get is a regurgitated mixture of real estate listings and articles about Dalton Prout and Kirsten Prout. However, every once in a while, I get a true gem, like the YouTube video to the right (and here) of the University of Rhode Island baseball team lip-syncing to “Since U Been Gone” by Kelly Clarkson, as covered by the cast of the movie Pitch Perfect. In case …

Dear everyone, I’m on vacation for the next week. As a result, the usual content of the site will be a bit less, since, you know, I’m not here. If you have something that needs to be on the site this week, then you have a couple options. 1)   Make full usage of our blogging platform, which is available here. 2)   Use our “Announcements” section, which is here. 3)   Send an e-mail to Patrick.luce@patch.com, to make your case. (NOTE: The first two options are our preferred methods.) If it’s something that can wait beyond this week, then please just send it to me – Stephen.greenwell@patch.com. I…

Dear everyone, I’m on vacation for the next week. As a result, the usual content of the site will be a bit less, since, you know, I’m not here. If you have something that needs to be on the site this week, then you have a couple options. 1)   Send an e-mail to Richard.couto@patch.com or Patrick.luce@patch.com, to make your case. 2)   Make full usage of our blogging platform, which is available here. 3)   Use our “Announcements” section, which is here. If it’s something that can wait beyond this week, then please just send it to me – Stephen.greenwell@patch.com. I’m taking a faux-vacation, …

So, here is the thing with sports on Patch – They don’t work really well. Well, okay, that’s the short answer. The longer answer is that the effort to properly cover a sports beat, like a traditional weekly or daily newspaper, doesn’t seem to have as much payoff online as it does offline. Dating back to November 2010, when Narragansett Patch started with myself as the editor, I’ve tried a variety of sports coverage. That first year, I tried to get to a bit of everything, and the following year, I stuck mostly to the successful and popular sports. Both approaches didn’t have much of an effect …

Recently, I had a request from a reader, John Nacci, about whether I could identify the landscape in this postcard. According to the website, the postcard is believed to be from the early 1900s. It’s of the Old Man’s Face at Point Judith, but I’m personally not familiar with that area. It looks kind of like the rocks off of Galilee and Salty Brine Beach to me, but I’m no expert on this. Do you have any ideas about where the Old Man’s Face is? Let us know in the comments!

Narragansett Patch is looking for your reaction to the civil unions bill that passed the Rhode Island Senate on June 29, just over a month since a similar bill, sponsored by Johnston Rep. Peter Petrarca, cleared the House. Petrarca's bill gained momentum after a same-sex marriage bill, sponsored by Rep. Frank Ferri of Warwick, who is also the owner of Town Hall Lanes in Johnston, didn't make it out of committee. Gov. Lincoln Chafee is expected to sign the civil union legislation as early as today. The bill would allow towns to issue same-sex couples a certificate, much like a marriage license…

Father's Day is coming up on Sunday and we want to pay tribute to all of the dads in Narragansett. With the help of all of you, we will feature the many reasons why we love dads. Finish this sentence: "I love my dad because ..." in an email to Local Editor Stephen Greenwell at stephen.greenwell@patch.com. Feel free to share photos of you and your father too! We're looking for serious, funny or sentimental posts from both children and adults! Pay tribute to your dad by letting everyone know why you love him. Please include your first and last name and your father's name in the email. Please …

The hand-made standard that will be the centerpiece of the 2011 South County Relay For Life Team “The Merry Men” is an amazing collaboration of effort from several community members, and a testament to teamwork and passion for finding cures to cancer. According to Merry Men Team member Pamela Burlingame, the idea for the banner was born at a coffee meeting between she and team members Cynthia Field, Eileen Singer, Deborah Chernick, and other members. “We were talking about [Relay For Life] and we started talking about what kind of banner, or what we would do or wear, just spit-balling ideas…

11:15 a.m. -- According to South Kingstown Patch, today's scheduled parade has been canceled. A strong line of incoming thunderstorms is to blame for the cancellation, which according to Weather.com's Wakefield forecast were expected to begin in earnest by 9:45 a.m.  The call came in to South Kingstown firefighters around 8:40 a.m. According to the town's police and fire dispatchers the parade was cancelled for safety reasons. Town parks and recreation officials made the call just after 8:30 a.m. A short ceremony at the Veterans Memorial at Saugatucket Park was to be held, but it has been …

Narragansett Patch is celebrating a milestone of sorts this week, as we published our 1,000th piece of content! In a bit of irony, perhaps, the article was a piece on Narragansett Beer releasing its new Summer Ale. Given that I am of legal age to partake in such a beverage, I will be drinking one in celebration tonight. For the curious number freaks amongst you, we’ve averaged about five pieces of content per day for our first 190 days. If you subtract the weekend, when we only run three pieces of content, the average shoots up to six per day. Frankly, while I’m the sort of ego-driven dude …

When Kenny Lerer and I started The Huffington Post on May 9, 2005, we would have been hard-pressed to imagine this moment. With The Huffington Post, the idea was to take the sort of conversations found around dinner tables and at book parties–about politics and books and art and music and food and sex–and put them online, open them up, and invite interesting people to participate, creating a one-stop site for news and opinion with an attitude, in real-time. Our merger with AOL, Patch's parent company, in February, allowed us to broadcast those conversations to a much wider audience. By …

Like the rest of the United States, there was an outpouring of emotion in Narragansett related to the death of 9/11 mastermind and al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden. For the full story and photos of the reaction nationwide, check out this story from The Huffington Post. For some incredible front pages from across the nation, normally the Newseum is a good resource. You can find their site here. Here are some statements from Twitter by Narragansett residents, past and present, ordered in a rough chronological order: @allialexander: Osama Bin Laden is dead. Update: Osama killed in a mansion …

Beginning May 4, Narragansett Patch will be featuring the work of bloggers on the site, because we’re kind of awesome like that. Well, okay – The official justification is that we're looking for bloggers who can riff on various topics, share their personality and engage our readers in discussions. So, it is more than just us being awesome (although that is no doubt true). Patch is more than a news site: it's an online conversation about your community. Are you passionate about Narragansett's core issues? Are you an expert craftsman or hobbyist who can share do-it-yourself tips? Do you have …

Want headlines from Narragansett Patch delivered directly to your blog or Web site? Now, you can stream all the Narragansett news — or just certain categories — directly there for you and your visitors. It was one several changes made to the Narragansett Patch site this past week that also includes free classified ads and a news feed from nearby Patch sites. With a new widget feature, you can create a box that's easily insertable into blogs and Web pages. It's also customizable by topic, so if you just want sports, you can limit to sports or if you just want police and fire news, you get …

By a 39-12 vote, the Dyer family of Westmoreland Street has won the first annual Narragansett Patch Holiday Lights Contest. Congrats! For being the winners, they will receive a copy of Gansettopoly, and a small Patch prize pack – a canvas tote bag, some pens and some magnets. I'm not an accountant, but the value of the package is probably about $578,617. I'd also like to extend thanks to our second place family, the Frankoviches of Conanicus Street, for entering. They will also receive that glorious prize pack, and bragging rights over everybody else in Narragansett besides the Dyers. For a …

We here at Patch have a lot of content going up in the next three days, and we realize it can be very easy to lose track of it all. Therefore, we encourage you to bookmark this page, where we will do our best to keep you informed of all of our coverage on this busy weekend of events. Please note that some articles are not available until a certain time, which is noted, especially if they cover an event. We will update this story with links as stories become live. Without further adieu… FRIDAY 5:55 a.m.: Columnist Jane Couto wants to be a loser – of weight – this holiday season. 5:55 a.m.: Are…

I have always been a fan of ombudsman and op-ed columns by newspaper editors explaining how things work. Much like the seminal "wizard" behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz, I think it can be cathartic for readers to know how things work behind the scenes. This column is a semi-regular attempt to do that. Have a question about why we covered a certain story the way we did? Or about why we missed a certain event? Feel free to submit it to me via e-mail or comment, and I'll either answer you directly or use it for this column. Please note whether you would like your name to be used. Without …