EAST PROVIDENCE — Some five months after the General Assembly voted to approve legislation and Gov. Dan McKee signed it into law, residents 21-years-of-age and older were legally permitted to …
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By Mike Rego
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12/2/22
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Activities planned for the Barrington Tree Lighting event will be held indoors on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 3, because of the expected rain and wind.
The forecast calls for a dry start to …
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12/2/22
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Because of expected bad weather, Bristol has postponed its traditional "Grand Illumination," the night when it lights the lights downtown, to Sunday. Everything else about the schedule is expected to …
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12/2/22
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The 2022 Barrington High School field hockey team recently held its season-ending banquet, when head coach Anne Gasbarro announced a long list of accolades and accomplishments for many of the …
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12/2/22
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Westport's holiday season officially begins late Sunday afternoon, when the Westport Recreation Department and Westport Land Conservation Trust join at the trust's home base, Westport Woods, at 573 …
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12/1/22
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Welcome to the very slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives. Some voters eagerly await the restored elegance and wisdom of the Grand Old Party. Their slight ascendance was, of …
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12/1/22
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A “new” handicap-accessible shuttle bus for Little Compton's senior residents will soon be hitting the streets, after more than two years of waiting.
The 12-passenger 2011 Ford …
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By Jen Campisi
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12/1/22
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Some 2,000 children are reported missing in the United States each day. A new system now used by BPD can save valuable time in locating them.
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By Christy Nadalin
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12/1/22
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The Barrington Pop Warner JV-1 and JV-2 cheer teams will compete at Pop Warner Nationals in Orlando, Fla. this month.
The Barrington cheer teams finished in first place in their respective …
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12/1/22
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On Friday, Dec. 2, the Mead Art Gallery at St. John's Church, 191 County Road in Barrington, is sponsoring an evening of "Covid Creations” — framed art as well as crafts that were created …
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12/1/22
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This weekend, the RWU women's rugby team will play for a chance to win the national D-II collegiate championship in Houston, Tex.
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By Christy Nadalin
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12/1/22
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The Town of Bristol took the first steps to creating a public skating rink by constructing a rectangular shell in the center of Independence Park on Thames Street. On Wednesday, a crew with the …
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12/1/22
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“We’re coming back.”
That is what Barrington Superintendent of Schools Michael Messore heard from local teachers while visiting the high school earlier this …
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By Josh Bickford
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12/1/22
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EAST PROVIDENCE — The annual tree lighting ceremony at City Hall last weekend on Saturday, Nov. 26, kicked off a season’s worth of holiday events in city. The following afternoon a …
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Photos by Julie Furtado
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11/30/22
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CRANSTON — The Champlin Foundation announced $10.2 million in capital funding to 95 nonprofit organizations serving Rhode Islanders of all ages across youth services, healthcare, arts and …
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11/30/22
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The Rhode Island Foundation will match every donation the public makes to Trinity Repertory Company during its 2022 run of “A Christmas Carol” with an equal grant to the Rhode Island …
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11/30/22
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Bristol's 2022 Grand Illumination will take place on Saturday, Dec. 3, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Burnside Building at 400 Hope St.
The program will also be live streamed on …
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11/30/22
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Little Compton will take no further action for the time being on a controversial plan to begin regulating short term rentals, though the issue is not yet settled and will be discussed more, the town …
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By Jen Campisi
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11/30/22
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Thanks very much for your informative report published on Nov. 23, 2022 . Information on this subject is typically only released in a favorable fashion by the regulators. I am quite sure …
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11/30/22
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Mt. Hope cross country runner Jessica Deal placed 18th at the Nike Northeast Regional Cross Country Championship in Wattipager, New York on Saturday. The freshman ran the three mile course that …
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Story by Richard W. dionne, Jr.
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11/30/22
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September of 2016 was when Hilary Clinton famously said that half of Trump’s supporters was a basket of deplorables. True or not, it's certainly not a phrase likely to endear one to …
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11/30/22
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To the editor:
After many years of soft warm lighting (that still exists on the bridges and snowflakes) I'm trying to adjust to the new replacement bulbs in our town lamp posts. I just hope a …
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11/30/22
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Although Fisher Cats are considered crepuscular animals (dawn and twilight feeders along with red fox, opossums and many others) one wasn’t paying any attention to that when a visitor in the …
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11/30/22
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To the editor:
It was 1980, 42 years ago, when the Barrington Democrats succeeded in electing a Black woman to the Barrington Town Council. I, Anthony V. Arico, then a former Democratic …
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11/30/22
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The Town of Westport is in a fiscal crisis that is going to get much worse if we don’t take strong measures to confront it and climb out of the hole we are in. The hole has been made deeper …
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11/30/22
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