Barrington police responded to Linden Road at about 4 p.m. on Monday, June 8 for a report of a suspicious condition. A person in the area had spotted vehicles parked near the woods an teenagers …
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6/17/20
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A hazard mitigation grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is helping Barrington's Tom Siedzik better prepare his home for a rise in sea level.
Mr. Siedzik's home is located on Edwin …
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6/15/20
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PROVIDENCE — The state is expanding its symptomatic testing for COVID-19 to include restaurant workers and bus drivers, Gov. Gina Raimondo announced at a news briefing Friday, June …
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By Jim McGaw
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6/12/20
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PORTSMOUTH — Has it hit your neighborhood yet?
Around 9:30 a.m. Friday, a mini-caravan of faculty members from Portsmouth Middle School left the school’s parking lot for a …
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6/12/20
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Where there’s a will, there’s a way — and after weeks of forced closure followed by weeks of takeout-only business, Bristol restaurants certainly have the will. Some are already …
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By Christy Nadalin
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6/12/20
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In May, the Barrington Town Council voted to make June "Barrington Pride Month."
And this month, the council wanted to share a statement of support at the Pride flag-raising ceremony planned for …
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By Josh Bickford
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6/11/20
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The one constant throughout this pandemic is that no one agrees on anything. Scientists, governors and private citizens have demonstrated every reaction and position possible, and it’s …
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6/11/20
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“I CAN’T BREATHE” – Eric Garner. Mr. Garner‘s life was choked out of him by police for his allegedly selling individual cigarettes. The list is a long one of such …
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By Arlene Violet
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6/11/20
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EAST PROVIDENCE — “Quite the pickle…Stuck between a rock and a hard place,” those were some of the words used to describe the district’s busing situation as it begins …
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By Mike Rego
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6/11/20
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With Rhode Islanders continuing to (mostly) follow rules and regulations designed to check the spread of Covid-19, state data shows numbers are continuing to trend in a positive direction. While its …
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By Christy Nadalin
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6/11/20
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To the editor:My grandfather once told me that a person needed just three shirts: one in the drawer, one in the wash, and one on the back. He never could have imagined needing a special Hawaiian …
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6/11/20
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To the editor:
I loved seeing so many Little Comptoners on Sunday standing up against our nation’s recent racist murders. Standing up is beautiful, but we must also commit to working for …
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6/11/20
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Distance learning has been a great success, but it is time to get back to school, Governor Gina Raimondo announced at Wednesday's coronavirus press briefing, a session devoted almost entirely to …
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By Bruce Burdett
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6/10/20
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EAST PROVIDENCE — The following is the list of graduates in the Class of 2020 at East Providence High School. Students are listed alphabetically and includes the following academic honors:
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Photos by Rich Dionne
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6/10/20
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Victory Field was empty on Sunday afternoon.
On the day that traditionally hosts the Barrington High School graduation ceremony, members of the Class of 2020 instead shared their commencement …
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By Josh Bickford
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6/9/20
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PORTSMOUTH — It was like a second graduation ceremony, and perhaps that was the point.
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By Jim McGaw
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6/9/20
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NEA Tiverton votes no confidence in superintendent
NEA Tiverton, the union representing Tiverton teachers, issued the following press release late Tuesday morning, shortly before the Sakonnet …
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6/9/20
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To the editor:
Rhode Island is on the precipice of a cataclysmic housing disaster stemming from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But swift, decisive action would avert this crisis.
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6/4/20
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Though the numbers are trending down, Covid-19 is still very much present in Rhode Island, Gov. Gina Raimondo said during her daily briefing Thursday.
Since Wednesday, 14 more Rhode …
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By Ted Hayes
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6/4/20
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Developers of the Tourister Mill will ask the Warren Zoning Board of Review later this month to allow them to re-zone vacant commercial space within the development as residential, allowing them to …
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By Ted Hayes
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6/4/20
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To the editor:
I don’t know whether anyone else has noticed the irony of it all.
Last year everyone in town was fighting tooth and nail over school start (and end) times. It turns out …
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6/4/20
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Barrington Town Manager Jim Cunha signed a new executive order earlier this week that prohibited door-to-door solicitations and updated other restrictions associated with the coronavirus …
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6/4/20
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EAST PROVIDENCE — Mayor Bob DaSilva last week took two executive actions in what he said was an attempt “to bring varying racial and ethnic backgrounds with differing views …
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6/4/20
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It started with T-shirts. Then came coffee, beer, personal protective equipment - even barbecue sauce. Now the wildly popular “Knock It Off” design created by a Warren-owned Providence …
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By Ted Hayes
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6/4/20
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A plan to dramatically improve and expand Blount Boats’ busy shipyard on Water Street cleared one of its first local hurdles late last month, when the Warren Voluntary Historic District …
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By Ted Hayes
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6/4/20
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