Having read the series of letters from the Kickemuit Middle School students published Jan.2, 2020, in the Bristol Phoenix, I was pleased to read Michael Byrnes’ Jan. 9 follow-up letter to …
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1/16/20
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Warren’s new trash and recycling program appears to be reducing waste and increasing the amount of recyclables saved, according to data collected over the first two months of the …
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By Ted Hayes
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1/16/20
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The newly-inked Barrington teachers contract offers a detailed look at the requirements and compensations extended to local public school teachers.
For starters, the contract calls for around a 2 …
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By Josh Bickford
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1/16/20
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The Bristol Police have launched headfirst into the new year, upgrading systems that will impact operations and efficiencies and providing new avenues for positive interactions with the community.
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By Christy Nadalin
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1/16/20
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On Thursday, Jan. 9, St. Mary’s Church held a Mass of Appreciation in honor of National Law Enforcement Day.
This was the church’s second annual celebration thanking and honoring law …
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1/15/20
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More than thirty years after they vanished from the collections of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, a group of 34 stone projectile points, hundreds, perhaps more than a thousand years old, …
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1/15/20
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Barrington and East Providence public school officials are preparing for a potential strike by local school bus drivers and monitors.
Members of the Teamsters Local 251 union who serve as bus …
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By Josh Bickford
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1/15/20
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With the onset of the new legislative session, taxpayers are gritting their teeth to see what fiscal ignominies will be piled onto their backs. One thing is for certain. The governor is out of …
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By Arlene Violet
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1/15/20
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The Rhode Island General Assembly got back to work last week, and with it, your elected representatives. East Bay Life spoke to several local senators and representatives to hear what issues are at …
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By Christy Nadalin
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1/15/20
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On Monday, Jan. 6, employees from the town's department of public works were ordered to clean up a resident's yard on Chachapacassett Road. A day later, that resident filed a report with the town's …
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By Josh Bickford
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1/14/20
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A Barrington police officer was locking up the gate at the town beach on Saturday night, Jan. 11, when he looked to the west and spotted a strange green light shining into the sky.
The officer …
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1/13/20
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Monday, Jan. 6
Daniel Ryan , 78, of 55 Manning St., was charged with violating a no contact order, after the state Department of Elderly Affairs alerted officers.
A Mason Street woman …
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1/13/20
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To the editor:
I am a frequent pedestrian in Barrington, and my walk to and from school leads me across the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Middle Highway, the subject of an article in the …
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1/10/20
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To the editor:
Let me ask a stupid question. Would you take your family out boating in the same cove that is also being used by hunters to shoot water fowl? Of course not, but that's exactly …
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1/10/20
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There were plenty of questions surrounding the proposed construction of a new Starbucks restaurant on County Road during Thursday night's Technical Review Committee meeting.
But no question …
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By Josh Bickford
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1/10/20
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It seems a bit xenophobic to focus on the future of America since, after all, we are part of a global environment. Yet, many political events are shaped and influenced by American values or …
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By Arlene Violet
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1/10/20
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Bristol is starting 2020 with a lot more knowledge about its senior population, thanks to a community needs assessment sponsored by an organizational grant by the Rhode Island Foundation, and …
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By Christy Nadalin
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1/10/20
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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were close friends back in 1965. They shared the dream that our nation should be “a place where civil and human rights …
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1/10/20
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Mt. Hope High School students made history for their school on Saturday, when they were the first to ever host a First Tech Challenge robotics competition not held on the New England Institute of …
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By Scott Pickering
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1/9/20
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Newspapers are dying. I hear it all the time; on the news, from strangers, acquaintances, even from some customers. To be sure, it’s hard to hear … every single time. Not because this is …
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1/9/20
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Warren Police Chief Peter T. Achilli will retire Friday after 36 years with the department, ending a career that began when he joined the force as a special police officer at age 19.
Chief Achilli …
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By Ted Hayes
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1/9/20
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PORTSMOUTH — Just one glance at Capt. Breezy Grenier’s extensive résumé and it becomes clear that she has never been one to follow the status quo.
As a mariner, …
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By Kristen Ray
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1/9/20
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It took nearly two years of self-study, work and introspection, but on Thursday the Warren Police Department became the 30th law enforcement agency in the state to become accredited.
Accreditation …
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By Ted Hayes
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1/9/20
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Pop, pop, pop! The sounds of the .22-caliber blank gun rang throughout Rockwell Elementary School, as volunteers from the Bristol Police Department, posing as ‘bad guys,’ stormed the …
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By Kristen Ray
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1/9/20
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Video surveillance cameras captured footage of two men trying to break into Barrington residents' cars early Sunday morning, Jan. 5.
A Barton Avenue resident called police at about 1:45 a.m. …
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1/9/20
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