By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Most elementary-aged boys wish for toys, video games or sports memorabilia when Christmas comes around and letters to Santa go out. However, Liam Ebbitt, a fifth grader at Park Elementary School, wanted something quite different...
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By JOHN HOWELL -- The numbers are staggering. A total of 32,000 wreaths would be needed to place one at the grave of every veteran buried at the Veterans Cemetery in Exeter. That's not going to happen this Saturday, but local volunteers are working hard to...
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Mayor Joseph Solomon confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that City Solicitor Peter Ruggiero - who has been in the midst of multiple allegations surrounding contractual provisions involving the Warwick Fire Department - would no longer be employed by the City of Warwick...
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- The Warwick School Committee decided last year that it would no longer force students who were delinquent on lunch payments to eat a SunButter and jelly sandwich. It was considered by some to be controversial...
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Ginny Barham, president of the Conimicut Village Association, led the countdown...
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By JOHN HOWELL
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12/11/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Herb Chambers, like many people, was quite excited about the prospect of walking into the car dealership and purchasing a brand-new Cadillac Eldorado in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, the experience with that particular establishment
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It was a surprise. Kids lined up at their classroom doors and were told to walk silently to the gym. They did. This was all part of the plan.
Throughout the week the word was “mum,” although …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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12/11/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Thirteen Warwick non-profits are recipients of Champlin Foundation grants totaling $2,080,830 that will enable projects ranging from the construction of two glass meeting rooms in the Warwick Public Library to the purchase of a
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By ETHAN HARTLEY New controversy surrounding the Warwick Fire Department, this time regarding the omission of a contractual provision in 2015 negotiations regarding the monetization of unused vacation days, has caused another wave of scrutiny to crash
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By JOHN HOWELL In his 46 years at Bishop Hendricken High School, school President John Jackson can't recall there being a bomb threat, but then there are even firsts for Hendricken. At about 6:10 a.m. Wednesday, according to a release issued by Warwick
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In his last presentation of the six-year-running partnership between the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office and the “It Can Wait” campaign from AT&T, it was fitting that Attorney General …
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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12/6/18
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Arts at Bishop Hendricken is reaching for the stars. The school will stage The Hunchback of Notre Dame as its fall musical opening tonight and running through Dec. 9 at the Dr. Daniel S. Harrop Theater on the campus of Bishop Hendricken High School. The
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12/6/18
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