Late Providence tax bills blamed partly on CrowdStrike outage. Homeowners will get an extension.

The late tax bills have caused confusion in recent days, since the extension wasn’t printed on the bill. Online bill pay was not affected, Smiley spokesperson Josh Estrella said. Estrella said the bills were mailed late because budget negotiations with the City Council were “delayed by a week,” even though the council passed the budget … Read more

Shun Pike single-family homeowners in Johnston square off against affordable housing condo developer

By RORY SCHULER They learned to live with the solar fields and sky-scraping windmills. But 32 condos — 16 restricted to low- and moderate-income households, and 16 market rate units —neighbors testified last week, would “injure” homeowners in the rural Shun Pike neighborhood off Peck Hill Road, not far from Plainfield Pike. The abutters of … Read more