Biologists from Mystic Aquarium spent much of Thursday dissecting the young female humpback whale that washed up at Church Cove and was first spotted Saturday.
Using a bulldozer to help them move …
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By Ted Hayes
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1/13/22
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Do you think that schools moving to a 5-day quarantine and a "monitor to stay" approach in regards to COVID is a smart move, or a potentially dangerous move?
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1/13/22
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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has issued a request for proposals for the replacement of the two East Bay Bike Path bridges.
The RFP was made public late last month and includes …
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1/13/22
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The pandemic introduced a few silver linings. Remote learning is sort of, kind of, one of them.
Across America, schools figured out how to conduct themselves when no one was in the school …
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1/13/22
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It may take a decade to overhaul the playing fields in Barrington. Many of the people who draw up plans today will have moved out of town, their children grown past youth sports, before plans come to …
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1/12/22
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The owners of the former Zion Bible College property recently unveiled a new plan for the vacant college campus, one that calls for more apartments, more townhouses, and more duplexes, but less …
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By Josh Bickford
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1/12/22
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The Pearson family are used to tinkering in factories, inventing new things and then plunking them in the water. It’s kind of their thing.
Nearly 70 years ago, cousins Clinton and Everett …
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By Scott Pickering
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1/12/22
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Barrington schools will follow some of the new protocols and procedures set by the Rhode Island Department of Health and the CDC, but not all of them.
The Rhode Island Department of Education …
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1/9/22
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Normally, this is the column where I have the audacity to suggest New Year resolutions for resident politicians. Instead I have a more urgent resolution for all of us: I want us Americans to go back …
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By Arlene Violet, Esq.
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1/7/22
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Back in the old days of two years ago, many parents could go years without hearing from a school nurse. Sometimes their child could pass through an entire school, K to 3, with nary a call or visit …
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By Scott Pickering
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1/6/22
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Principal Joseph Hurley announced that Barrington High School will switch to distance learning starting tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 6.
Mr. Hurley sent an email to students’ families on …
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1/5/22
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To the editor:
It’s been a few weeks since you published a story called “Parents vs. The State.” I responded to the writer directly in my shock at this kind of attention being …
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1/5/22
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Sharon Gold is a diminutive woman with a big message for everyone — stop idling! The focus of a story in our East Bay Life section this week, Gold is a retired educator and grandmother from …
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1/5/22
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To the editor:
A modest proposal.
In this most intractable debate, a letter to last week’s Sakonnet Times drew my interest. Jean Ernster of Barrington made a most intriguing proposal to …
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1/3/22
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The Annwamscutt Seal Society entered 2022 the same way it embraced previous years — with a dip in Narragansett Bay on New Year's Day.
The informal neighborhood group has been "taking …
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1/2/22
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To the editor:
Three Barrington school teachers were scheduled for a hearing this past Thursday, Dec. 16 to appeal being placed on unpaid leave with threat of employment termination starting …
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1/2/22
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12/29/21
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Governor Dan McKee recently initiated a new, temporary indoor mask mandate and proof of vaccine requirements. Do you agree with his decision?
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12/20/21
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On Aug. 19 of this year, Rhode Island entered a new phase in the Covid-19 pandemic. Citing the increased presence and spread of the Delta variant, which triggered a mini-surge in cases from July into …
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By Scott Pickering
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12/17/21
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Rising tensions over threats of school violence yielded a response from Barrington school officials late this week.
On Thursday night, Barrington Superintendent of Schools Michael Messore sent …
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12/17/21
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Katherine Quinn sat before the town council and told her story.
The Barrington resident explained how she had tried multiple times to earn a spot on the town’s zoning board only to face a …
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By Josh Bickford
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12/17/21
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