East Greenwich Pendulum

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According to the traditional Jewish calendar, the world began 5,787 years ago when the Creator had a bright idea and, in assessing the heavens and the earth that He, or, depending on your belief system, She, had just formed, declared, “Let there be light.” And so the story began.

After another record year of applications to the University of Rhode Island, thousands of those students have officially moved onto campus for the first time or come back for another year. As students and families packed up and unpacked in each dorm room over Labor Day Weekend, most parents viewed the departure as a bittersweet moment, while first-year students prepared to experience a whole new phase of their lives.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — A Columbus Day weekend storm on Block Island years ago left six docked boaters without power under cold, bleak skies.

WESTERLY— In 1968, Top 40 disc jockeys sounded like men shouting in a stadium, says North Kingstown resident Sam Kopper, a former Boston FM station DJ who decided to change the tone and talk instead. “And our philosophy was we’re in a room, we’re in a living room with one or two other people turning on the new music,” Kopper said.

Maureen Lynch Gladding was in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. Her cousin, Firefighter John M. Collins of Ladder 25, did not come home. He, like many others who died, was a hero, and on this 25th anniversary of that day’s terrorist attacks, children need to be reminded of those who sought life over death — the lives of innocent people — disregarding their own looming deaths, said she and other South County residents this week.

CHARLESTOWN — Labor Day Weekend in Charlestown brought with it the Rhythm and Roots festival, where music and dance lovers pull on their boots and eclectic bohemian garb and check out what some up-and-coming folk artists have to offer. But many who come here say that this is more than just a festival. It’s a celebration that spreads love and positivity in a world that desperately needs it.

Animal Rescue RI is gearing up to unleash the cuteness as one of its biggest fundraisers of the year celebrates 15 years. That fundraiser is Bark on the Beach. On Sunday Sept. 13, hundreds of dogs and their owners will walk the mile-long shoreline at the iconic Narragansett Town Beach in an effort to raise $50,000 for the organization. The fundraiser will run from 9:30-11:30 a.m., and dogs and owners are asked to gather at the south pavilion of the beach, located at 39 Boston Neck Road.

Outside the World War II museum on Main Street in South Kingstown, a procession of cars and a hearse passed slowly by a handful of people. The day was bright and sunny, and some other onlookers elsewhere stared in seeming question about why this motorcade, fronted by two police motorcycles and backed by a police cruiser, with their flashing lights, was passing.

As Labor Day and, gulp, the solemn last-closings of the beach chariot tailgates both approach—don’t fret, bathing suit clad readers, there’s still a lot of summer left to enjoy—I had cause to invoke a time-tested aphorism from the annals of ancient wisdom.