“Lights, camera, Adamsville!” The headline emblazoned on the front page of the June 26, 2025 Sakonnet Times ran atop a story by reporter Christian Silvia about the presence in Little Compton that week of film actor Jake Gyllenhaal, director M. Night Shyamalan, and their supporting troupe of performers and technicians. The filmmakers had arrived to…Continue readingLittle Compton movie notes, contemporary and historical–including when the town spurned “The Witches of Eastwick”
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NOTE: This post has been updated to delete unedited material inadvertently appended to the original version. “We think it is important that you hear from us.” Phillip Eng, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), at a February 10 public meeting I attended with about 100 other interested citizens…Continue readingSouth Coast Rail service begins March 24
In previous posts, on March 21, 2023 and April 3, 2024, I described various aspects of the enforcement (and non-enforcement) of Little Compton’s Animal Control ordinance (Chapter 4 of the Town Code) and the recent amendment of that ordinance. What these previous stories, and the events they recounted, had in common was a series…Continue readingA Little Compton “vicious dog” hearing
In my upbeat and too-credulous February 22, 2024 post about the status and progress of the South Coast Rail (SCR) project, which will return passenger rail service between Boston and the cities of Fall River and New Bedford for the first time in more than 60 years, I wrote: “Completion of the project’s Phase 1…Continue readingWaiting for the train: Further delays for South Coast Rail
At its March 7, 2024 meeting, the Little Compton Town Council voted to approve the wording of the sign included below, for posting on town-owned property, particularly the adjacent parking areas at Veterans Field and the soccer field. The sign’s terse message distills the substance of the Council’s significant amendment of the town’s animal control…Continue readingA new leash on (dog) life in Little Compton