The mayor's weekly address for April 1, 2021 more

By JOHN HOWELL Mayor Frank Picozzi has tapped Lyn D'Abrosca, who has served as interim city clerk since 2018, to fill the job on a permanent basis. The appointment requires City Council confirmation, which is on the agenda for the April 4 meeting. "She more

March 17, 2021 more

By JOHN HOWELL Mayor Frank Picozzi got yelled at Monday night. Picozzi was behind the wheel of the city's oldest plow, a 2001 Ford pickup that lacks a radio but more importantly has working heat. He was plowing a neighborhood not far from his home. This more

By JOHN HOWELL The mayor is learning to juggle. Frank Picozzi made that clear Tuesday during his weekly press conference with Warwick Beacon reporters. The list of reporter questions ranged from when McDermott Pool might reopen to how he plans to reunite more

By JOHN HOWELL Mayor Frank Picozzi is good at keeping his word, or rather the lack of them. Going into his inaugural ceremony Tuesday at noon on the steps of City Hall, he said he wouldn't make remarks from the podium other than abiding by the oath of more

By JOHN HOWELL This is it; the last full week Frank Picozzi runs his own home improvement business before taking on the job as the mayor of Warwick. Actually, the new job started consuming more of his time the day Warwick voters chose the independent more

By JOHN HOWELL Peder Schaefer is coming back to Warwick to a job he had 22 years ago, not that he ever left. He keeps his sailboat in Warwick Cove. He will be at the helm of city finances soon after Mayor-elect Frank Picozzi takes the oath of office on more

By JOHN HOWELL One thing is certain about the inaugural of Frank Picozzi as mayor. By City Charter, the event occurs on the first Tuesday of the New Year, and that is Jan. 5, 2021. But the pandemic and what state regulations will be in place at that time more

By JOHN HOWELL This year has been full of bumps, so Mayor-elect Frank Picozzi was not defeated when his Picozzi Family Christmas display wasn't up and running in time for its traditional Black Friday opening. He traced the problem to a component not more

By JOHN HOWELL As election returns came in after the polls closed, Richard Cascella was beside himself with ecstatic disbelief. If what he was seeing was the trend, Warwick Republicans would hold seats on the City Council and in the General Assembly that more

By JOHN HOWELL Although mayor-elect Frank Picozzi hasn't talked with Mayor Joseph J. Solomon since they happened to cross paths in City Hall before Election Day, the lack of personal communication hasn't impaired the transition. Picozzi is grateful for more