About once a year, our newsroom will devote an entire week to award-winning reporting that covers “one square mile,” somewhere in Rhode Island or the Southcoast of Massachusetts. One town/location gets in-depth look at variety of stories from a diversity of angles: politics, education, health care, the economy, its character and history.  

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OSM locations have included:

  • 2019 Pawtucket, RI
  • 2018 New Bedford, MA
  • 2017 Johnston, RI
  • 2015 Burrillville, RI
  • 2014 Narragansett Bay
  • 2013 Bristol, RI
  • 2012 Block Island, RI
  • 2011 Woonsocket, RI
  • 2010 West Warwick, RI
  • 2009 Newport, RI
  • 2008 Central Falls, RI

Note: the annual schedule for OSM changed after 2015; for 2016, instead of airing in late fall, it was changed to late winter to accommodate the stories from the 2016 Presidential Election. Hence the “2016” OSM became 2017 instead.