By PETE FONTAINE The Glocester Country Club membership, many folks who tee it up at the historic and picturesque nine-hole lakeside layout is, in just two words, par excellence. Sunday, in fact, was yet another special example of the GCC's generosity more

Tautog (or black fish) fishing has been great. Anglers in Narragansett and Mt. Hope Bays are hooking up, the bite along the southern coastal shore has been good and those fishing off Newport are finding tautog along with some large sea bass in the low more

By PAM SCHIFF When your only child doesn't feel well, you start to worry. When they are admitted to the hospital with an unknown diagnosis, your world spins out of control. For Cranston dad and school bus driver Chris Campogagne, his world turned upside more

By ALEX SPONSELLER After 16 years of serving as the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League, and nearly 50 years in athletics overall, Warwick resident Tom Mezzanotte recently retired while celebrating his 70th birthday. Mezzanotte more

Last week I began making my rounds to local practices to do some previews, discuss the return of high school athletics, all of that good stuff. Things went well, it was nice to be back out there and to reconnect with the coaches and athletes, it was more

You can’t catch fish where there are no fish. My formula for a successful trip includes research, planning and implementation. Research.   No matter what species you are targeting … more

On Monday afternoon, Gov. Gina Raimondo gave all but two Rhode Island school districts the green light to hold in-person classes starting on September 14. It is up to each district to make their own decision on how the school year will be approached, but more

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced new freshwater fishing regulations that took effect August 2. The changes include minimum sizes for trout and salmon, clarification on how fish can be taken and designation of more

It's the dog days of summer. That period between July and August when bay water gets as warm as 76 degrees and warmer in low water coves and sanctuaries. This Sunday the surface water temperature on Narragansett and Buzzards Bays was about 75 degrees, more

On a national scale, Major League Baseball opened its season last week. Like millions of Americans, I tuned into the opening weekend and was happy to finally feel a somewhat sense of normalcy in terms of television entertainment. However, on Monday, news more

The Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association (RISAA) will be holding a 'How to catch bigger fluke' online seminar Monday, July 27, 7 p.m. I will be the guest speaker. And, I plan to highlight tactics I have employed to catch larger fluke as well as more

As we get one week closer to fall, more and more college athletic conferences have cancelled autumn sports or have postponed them until the spring. On the one hand, it's discouraging that we are now four months into the COVID-19 crisis and we still more