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An excited crowd gathered at Calef’s Hall on Plainfield Street in Johnston on the evening of June 25, 1908. The hall had been gaily decorated and everyone was dressed in their Sunday best and …
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8/28/24
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Jane McGair opened her browser on the 80th anniversary of D-Day and there was her father, Branson Donaldson, on the front page of the Providence Journal.
“I was very …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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6/13/24
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Wallace Ng was carrying a watering can Saturday morning, the first day of Pawtuxet Memorial Park “Avenue of Flags.” A Memorial Day tradition, the avenue features more than 300 large …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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5/30/24
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STANDING TALL: The Station Nightclub Fire Memorial in West Warwick was standing tall above a blue sky on Tuesday, the 21st anniversary of the fire which devastated Rhode Island in 2003. A few flowers …
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2/22/24
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Rhode Islanders gathered on Monday at the 9/11 memorial park in Oakland Beach to remember the lives lost in the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.
The annual event, set up by state …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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9/14/23
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The City of Warwick will hold its annual remembrance ceremony Monday, September 11th at the 9/11 Memorial in Oakland Beach to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The …
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9/7/23
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With a bulldozer in the background, six shovels stuck out of an uncovered patch of dirt. Six indigenous veterans sprinkled tobacco where the shovels met the earth. As a flute played, they dug …
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By DANA RICHIE
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7/20/23
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As the tradition, Pawtuxet Memorial Park paid tribute to veterans with its avenues of flags , each bearing the name of a deceased veteran buried in the cemetery on Harrison Avenue. Weather could not …
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6/15/23
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Although class was not in session, Veterans Park near Warwick’s Veterans Middle School was busy Monday morning, with local veterans and supporters gathering for a Memorial Day observance. …
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By DANIEL HOLMES
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6/1/23
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A Memorial Day ceremony will take place at Veterans Memorial Park, located outside of Veterans Middle School, Monday, May 29th at 10 a.m.
Mayor Frank Picozzi and Representative Camille …
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5/25/23
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Last weekend, the Warwick FOP Lodge 7 held a Police Memorial service.
“On this date, for the last 54 years, the Warwick Police Department and Warwick FOP7 have honored all of our nation's …
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5/25/23
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The travelling Vietnam Memorial Wall (AVTT) will once again return to the Ocean State September 8-10th. The display features an 80% to scale version of the Vietnam Wall Memorial in Washington D.C. …
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3/30/23
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Plants have been uprooted, flags removed and a wreath taken from the 9-11 Memorial to Warwick victims of that terrorism attack built by volunteers with community donations in Oakland Beach. The …
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12/7/22
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Like so many organizations, Covid threw a cold towel on the Warwick Historical Society. Meetings were held remotely if at all. The house on Roger Williams Circle adjacent to the Pawtuxet Memorial …
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9/14/22
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Making a stark statement on the shooting of 19 elementary school children and their two teachers in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, Asbury United Methodist Church parishioners set up a circular row of …
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6/1/22
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By JOHN HOWELL
Happy birthday is not the song one would expect to sing at a Memorial Day observance at Warwick’s named in honor of our veterans. But that’s exactly what Warwick …
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5/25/22
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Remembering with 100 lights While the Station Fire Memorial Foundation did not hold a service on Sunday to recognize the tragedy that killed 100 people in the nightclub fire on Feb. 20, 2003, many visited the memorial in West Warwick over the course
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2/22/22
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To the Editor, February 20, 2022 will mark nineteen years since the horrific Station Nightclub fire which caused one hundred people to die and 200 hundred more to be injured. This appalling, catastrophe also caused thousands more to experience the crush
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2/9/22
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The public is invited to attend a memorial service at the 9-11 Memorial Garden at the Oakland Beach Commons in Warwick to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "On this, the 20th anniversary, we still feel the sting from the
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By JOHN HOWELL
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9/9/21
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Fog can be comforting, yet alarming. As I starting climbing the hill, the crest that I know so well, having passed this way countless times, disappeared. The fog consumed the sun, leaving a consistent opaque gray. I checked to make sure my lights were
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6/17/21
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