The email writer was distraught. He had heard that notice of his arrest was listed in the Police Log, but he was adamant that that he had not been arrested. I checked the log, which had been posted just hours earlier.  Indeed, the unhappy emailer was listed as having been “arrested” by the police after being stopped for speeding. The police had run his license, found that it was expired and issued him a summons as well as had his car towed. The police classify this violation as an arrest, as opposed to their two other classifications: offenses and accidents. But is an expired license really …

The heat in the comment stream on the EG Little League majors baseball championship game two weeks ago took me by surprise. The Phillies were the returning champs for the third year in a row. They were, of course, thrilled. The losing team, which had gone from the bottom of the heap to within one game of winning it all, was disappointed. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat - nothing new there.For the first couple of days, it seemed to be traveling the familiar path of such stories: those involved read the story and send it to relatives and friends, and maybe there’s a comment or two of…

So it was on June 13, when I got an email from a woman who had seen a story on East Greenwich Patch about the EGHS girls softball team. Looking at the pictures that accompanied the article, she saw one with Ed DePastina in a coach’s shirt. DePastina is a former teacher at the high school as well as the former softball and boys basketball coach.How can he be coaching again, she asked. According to her, DePastina was prohibited from coaching several years ago. This was news to me, and a terrible irony since the softball team was about to play in the state championship and their spirit and grit …

It became official last Monday: I am the new editor of East Greenwich Patch. This comes after acting as substitute editor since founding editor Bob Plain left to blog on statewide issues for WPRO at the end of April.I have big shoes to fill. Bob Plain brought online news and information to East Greenwich with my02818.com. I was fortunate enough to jump on that train a couple months after it launched, so I know the hard work and creativity that it took to get it this far. My02818 merged with Patch last fall, and East Greenwich Patch began. So, I’ve inherited a website - keeping it going should…