Letter: Maybe RICC can give town an athletic field

Posted 9/24/18

To the editor:

I thought since families in Barrington are willing to pay millions of dollars for one school building on land that may or may not accommodate that building over time, therefore …

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in

Register to post events


If you'd like to post an event to our calendar, you can create a free account by clicking here.

Note that free accounts do not have access to our subscriber-only content.

Day pass subscribers

Are you a day pass subscriber who needs to log in? Click here to continue.


Letter: Maybe RICC can give town an athletic field

Posted

To the editor:

I thought since families in Barrington are willing to pay millions of dollars for one school building on land that may or may not accommodate that building over time, therefore raising everyone’s taxes by thousands of dollars, parents could pay something more on their own for other things in their children’s lives in order to keep them away from TV and their devices. 

Mr. DeBoth says other towns have great fields, not literal “dumps." Well how are other town’s taxpayers doing these days with an affordability to be able to live in them? 

Maybe their school committees and various other committees have the ability to use common sense in the business of the town for the good of all their citizens rather than the spend, spend, spend attitude ours do. 

It is all in the ability to make and enforce budgets. Apparently we now have a large population who do not have this ability, which is unacceptable and unfortunately affects the whole population.

Big business, alias the school system, is at the root of this problem for Barrington.

Maybe the Rhode Island Country Club would be amenable to making a space to accommodate a sports playing field so teams could play on the best grass!

Barbara Flanders

Barrington

2024 by East Bay Media Group

Barrington · Bristol · East Providence · Little Compton · Portsmouth · Tiverton · Warren · Westport
Meet our staff
Jim McGaw

A lifelong Portsmouth resident, Jim graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1982 and earned a journalism degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1986. He's worked two different stints at East Bay Newspapers, for a total of 18 years with the company so far. When not running all over town bringing you the news from Portsmouth, Jim listens to lots and lots and lots of music, watches obscure silent films from the '20s and usually has three books going at once. He also loves to cook crazy New Orleans dishes for his wife of 25 years, Michelle, and their two sons, Jake and Max.