There was a time, not long ago, when we celebrated Barrington for setting a great example in small-town governance. Citizens with talent and good intentions volunteered for public service, spent one …
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12/15/21
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To the editor:
I’ll be interested to hear how Megan Douglas and this article “ Vaccine mandate, booster shots, and lawsuits ” didn’t get it wrong.
To say the …
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12/15/21
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It has been a difficult past few years for Barrington’s Valtierra family.
In Oct. 2018, Robert Valtierra suffered a stroke after a dental procedure. It left him physically challenged …
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By Josh Bickford
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12/15/21
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To the editor:
I have been reading the recent articles in the Barrington Times on plans to install artificial turf on fields in town, and I would like to offer a high school athlete’s …
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12/14/21
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The meeting was just minutes from starting when council member Jacob Brier received some surprising news.
Mr. Brier said it was just prior to the start of the Dec. 6 council meeting when …
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By Josh Bickford
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12/14/21
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To the editor:
The news from Michigan recently is both heartbreaking and infuriating: a teenager took a gun from his home and used it to murder four students and to seriously wound seven others …
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12/13/21
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Barrington Police had a heavy presence at Barrington High School on Monday afternoon, Dec. 13, after a student there found a threatening message written in a girls’ bathroom.
The …
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12/13/21
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I was taken aback when I received a letter from Santa! There in black and white was his Christmas list of Rhode Island leaders who have been either naughty or nice. One politician dominated the …
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By Arlene Violet, Esq.
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12/10/21
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What do you think about mandating vaccines specifically for educators who work within our communities' schools?
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12/10/21
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A Barrington resident recently asked school committee members how many fully-vaccinated teachers in Barrington were currently out of school after testing positive for Covid-19.
The resident, Kiela …
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By Josh Bickford
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12/10/21
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Crews from Barrington, East Providence, Seekonk, Warren, Bristol, Swansea and Providence joined forces to attack a fire in a large historic home on Alfred Drown Road on Saturday …
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By Josh Bickford
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12/6/21
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To the editor:
Rarely is a letter published that so misinforms as Peter Bilderback’s letter regarding the Rittenhouse verdict in the December 1st Barrington Times.
Jacob …
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12/6/21
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To the editor:
Imagine a world with no domestic violence — where no Rhode Islanders have their lives cut short by abuse, where children do not witness this violence, where our …
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12/6/21
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To the editor: Thank you so much for the excellent article in last week’s East Bay papers about the status of music performance in the schools. You balanced all of the important information so …
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12/2/21
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This program educates the public and changes attitudes about selling and providing alcohol to anyone under the age of 21.
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12/2/21
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Everything is getting more expensive, and that includes food. According to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the annual rate of inflation in the United States was 6.2 …
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By Scott Pickering
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12/2/21
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On a beautiful fall morning, Kelly Gorman and a group of other residents did their part to help the planet.
Gorma, a freshman at Northeastern University in Boston and the founder of the …
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By Josh Bickford
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12/1/21
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To the editor:
I have known Connie for over 40 years. She was a friend of my grandmother, Mary (Marcello) Iacovelli since childhood. They grew up together here in Barrington, went to …
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11/30/21
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The Barrington Town Council recently held a public hearing on the proposed acquisition of two undeveloped rights of way.
One right of way is located on Opechee Drive — between numbers 7 and …
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By Josh Bickford
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11/19/21
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The latest proposal for artificial turf fields in Barrington was conceived by good people, volunteering their time, off and on, for more than two years. That does not make it a good plan.
We …
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11/17/21
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