The Cranston East football program will be welcoming back a familiar face as former player and coach James Cook was announced as the team’s latest head coach. After playing for CLCF as a … more

Cranston high school students are not likely to know the name Frank Lenox, but rest assured teachers at East and West  have been in contact with him since the beginning of the academic year. … more

The Lady Bolts limped their way into the 2023 spring season after a winless, 0-18 campaign the previous year. Leading the way was first-year coach Jordan McHale, who immediately set the tone and got … more

The Cranston West girls basketball team flew under the radar in Division I heading into last basketball season but would wind up being one of the state’s best teams. In sports, the best … more

A year after being named the Cranston Herald’s Girls Coach of the Year, Jhamal Diggs has been named the Herald’s Boys Coach of the Year as the coach of the East volleyball team. The … more

After three seasons at the helm, Cranston East girls basketball coach Jhamal Diggs will be moving on to the next chapter of his career, accepting the position of assistant coach at Rhode Island … more

By ALEX SPONSELLER Longtime Cranston East teacher and West track coach Paul Bucci passed away on Monday morning after a 10-month battle against stage 4 metastatic rare small bowel cancer. He … more

By ALEX SPONSELLER The Rhode Island hockey scene lost a giant last week, when former Mount St. Charles coach Bill Belisle passed away at 92 years old. Belisle coached the Mounties for over four decades and collected 32 state championships in that span. more

Cranston had many stand out coaching performances in the year 2021, but it is hard to overlook the job that the Cranston boys co-op coach Matt Brannon did as the team secured its first-ever undefeated season and its first state championship since 2014. more

At just 28 years old, Jhamal Diggs was one of the state's youngest coaches heading into the 2020-21 winter basketball season last year and was only in his second campaign as the East girls' head coach. After a disappointing season the year before, more

By ALEX SPONSELLER Weeks after longtime Cranston East head football coach Tom Centore announced that he would be stepping away from the sidelines, the Thunderbolts found their new leader as assistant coach Isaiah McDaniel was promoted to the head more

By KELLY SULLIVAN Theodore "Ted" Nordyke was born in Kansas on July 11, 1904. The son of railroad carpenter Milton Nordyke and Sarah (Baker), he would discover his career path on the basketball team at Wichita High School. In 1929, he married Margery more

By LINDA DEUTSCH Special to the Herald When it became evident that Ann Willis Ratray would not survive the illnesses that had plagued her in recent years, her devoted acting students, who were prevented from visiting by the pandemic, asked what they more

By ALEX SPONSELLER Cranston East swim coach Bob Bouchard was recently named the 2019-20 Northeast Section Boys Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year by the NFHS Coaches Association Advisory Committee. This award comes after Bouchard being named the Rhode more