Fall River firefighters battled a fire at the former Silvia School on Hartwell Street in Fall River Saturday afternoon. . Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon told WPRI crews encountered heavy flames and smoke.

A Fall River native, he graduated from Swansea’s Joseph Case High School in 2001 and College of the Holy Cross in 2005. He has a master’s degree in special education from Simmons College.

Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said the fire was initially called in mid-afternoon on Saturday, March 1, by a motorist passing by on Interstate 195, who saw smoke coming out of the second ...

Diman is a public school, and it ranks applications distinctly between the four “sender communities,” with Fall River students making up 76% of the freshman class, and Somerset, Swansea, and ...

Four juvenile suspects have been arrested and charged in relation to the fire at the old Silvia School. An investigation concluded that the Mar. 1 fire was intentionally set.