Decathlon booster
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Michele Cinquegrano of Verizon was recently presented a gold medal by John Howell, president of the Rhode Island Academic Decathlon, for the company’s ongoing support of the event that has been …
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11/27/12
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As the holiday season begins and children throughout Warwick make their wish lists, members of the Warwick City Council are looking to cross infrastructure projects throughout the city off of their …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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12/7/23
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By JOHN HOWELL
Finally on Friday, Mayor Frank Picozzi got what he has been asking for — a face-to-face meeting with Rhode Island Airport Corporation president and CEO Iftikar Ahmad. …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/25/24
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Postponed because of rain during Holy Week, Bishop Hendricken High School held its 50th annual hunger walk Friday. Here students are pictured on Sandy Lane. Father Robert Marciano, president of the …
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5/23/24
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City Finance Director Peder Schaefer has a nose for numbers. When they aren’t what he expects them to be he starts digging.
He did that last week as he reviewed the governor’s budget …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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2/15/24
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Annual plant sale seeds farm Westbay produce
Get your vegetable garden going and support a good cause this week at the annual plant sale held at Westbay Community Action’s farm on …
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By BARBARA POLICHETTI
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5/23/24
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There aren’t many who knew him that don’t have a special place in their hearts for Bob Shapiro.
Last week, the Warwick City Council declared Sept. 20 as Robert A. Shapiro Day. All …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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2/15/24
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Rep. Joseph M. McNamara, chairman of the House Education Committee, is focusing on school attendance with a package of bills that seeks to curb chronic absenteeism along with the negative …
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3/7/24
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Stan Snycyk was fuming Friday. He had planned to walk the park-like setting at the end of his street, Strawberry Field Road west. However, when he reached the intersection of Palace Avenue, he was …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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5/23/24
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Two of Warwick’s elementary schools will make history on March 21 at 3:30 p.m.
That’s the date that Hoxsie and Park’s Unified Basketball teams- aimed at unifying students with …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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2/15/24
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As the Greenwood Volunteer Fire Company prepares to celebrate 100 years since its founding, its president, Robert Carlow, is working to make it a special century commemoration.
Though company …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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3/7/24
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By ADAM ZANGARI
It all began with a fire.
More specifically, a small brush fire in West Greenwich in 1986 near Brooke Lawrence’s childhood home. Following that, the town’s fire …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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5/23/24
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Judge Francis “Frank” X. Flaherty carried a pair of huge sealed cardboard boxes into Warwick City Hall’s subterranean conference room.
Flaherty, a former Warwick Mayor and …
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By JOHN HOWELL & RORY SCHULER
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3/7/24
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Almost a year later
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Hurricane Irene put a damper on last year’s …
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8/16/12
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Students from 15 Ocean State high schools struck gold, silver and bronze in the 41st annual Rhode Island Academic Decathlon held Sunday at Bryant University.
“We ran out of medals,” …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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3/7/24
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Three years after they landed their first flight in Rhode Island, Breeze Airways is picking up speed with a major expansion of operations at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport.
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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5/23/24
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Archie and Lulu Van Griffin, whose headstone was discovered in a closet at Brown University on Jan. 17, 2017 by Jack Wrenn, a PhD student at the time was recently moved by members of the Warwick …
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12/14/23
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That was the question customers leaving Dave’s Bar and Grill asked when confronted by a cloud of white smoke on Saturday afternoon. There was more to it than smoke. There was the throaty rumble …
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5/23/24
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More than 75 people gathered Dec. 2 at the Stephen J Medeiros Fishing Area at Black Point to celebrate the dedication of this beautiful piece of Rhode Island in honor of Steve Medeiros. Presentations …
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12/14/23
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