James Harrington, 24, has lived in Little Compton his entire life. He would like to stay there.
Harrington, who joined the Little Compton Affordable Housing Trust last year, is among the …
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James Harrington, 24, has lived in Little Compton his entire life. He would like to stay there.
Harrington, who joined the Little Compton Affordable Housing Trust last year, is among the youngest serving member of any town board in Little Compton and his family goes way back — he is the grandson of long-time town barber James Hayes, who worked out of the now-closed Little Compton Town Barber Shop for many years.
“I grew up in this great, great town,” he said. “It’s an old-school town.”
But he’s worried in recent years that its old-school charm has started to fade a bit. The streets he and his friends once roamed are now often vacant, with many homes now being used as sho...