It was 1976.  I was a rookie, substitute teacher at Toll Gate High School.  The students had just finished pelting me with spit balls. After they had run out of paper wads. … more

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 … more

By ALEX MALM When WPRI Chief Meteorologist Tony Petrarca was a Toll Gate sophomore when he got called down to the principal’s office because of the amount of tardies he had. Nervous about … more

By ALEX MALM For years the road off Centerville Road that leads its way past The Impossible Dream to Winman and Toll Gate Schools has had no name. Now the road is named for someone who used the … more