The Warwick School Committee has joined a national lawsuit suing major social media companies Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat, doing so in a 4-0 vote taken during Nov. 14’s School Committee …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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11/30/23
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Two women, one who wouldn’t have lived to celebrate her second birthday and the other hours away from dying gave thanks for their lives last Tuesday and urged people to register as tissue and …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/30/23
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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is scheduled to finish a preliminary design and environmental study by the end of this year to give Warwick with Amtrak service.
Presently, …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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11/30/23
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Westbay Community Action and the Warwick Boys and Girls Clubs ensured a plentiful Thanksgiving for hundreds of families Saturday as they distributed food from Westbay offices on Jefferson Boulevard …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/23/23
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If everything comes together on Dec. 9, Apponaug will be transformed into a winter wonderland.
The centerpiece of the event, titled “The Strolling Rolling Apponaug Winter Festival,” …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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11/23/23
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Iftikhar Ahmad, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, likes to think of Green Airport as the little engine that could.
He made the analogy when addressing Warwick Rotary …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/23/23
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The City Council gave first passage to rezone 171 parcels of land making up 364 acres as open space at its Monday meeting. The comprehensive rezoning package was lauded by a number of speakers, some …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/23/23
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The federal government estimates more than 17 American veterans took their own lives each day of 2021. And more than a 100 more veterans committed suicide in 2021, than the year before.
The …
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By RORY SCHULER
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11/22/23
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Look both ways and say a Hail Mary.
Crossing the street in the Ocean State can be tricky, at best — and deadly, at worst.
Last week, a teacher (and nun) was seriously injured while …
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By RORY SCHULER
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11/16/23
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I met Santa: The real one. He’s a bit taller than I imagined.
Santa’s red sled is the same shade as his fire engine. I wondered, if on one Christmas Eve, as Santa slid down a chimney …
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By ERIN O’BRIEN
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11/16/23
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Not long after moving to Conimicut, Ginny Barham wanted to learn more about the community and started attending village association meetings. Not long after that she thought of serving on …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/16/23
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More than 400 people have signed a petition calling on the city to buy as much as 12 acres bordering the Pawtuxet River and “close the loop” to a 2.3 mile walking trail that circles …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/16/23
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As he steps down as Rhode Island Democratic Party Chair, Rep. Joseph McNamara (Dist. 19, Warwick/Cranston) looks to devote more time to education.
McNamara said his decision not to seek the …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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11/16/23
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The giant blue banner across the building seeks new managers. The pay starts at more than $20 per hour.
Raising Cane’s pledges to open its first Ocean State location to start the New Year.
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By RORY SCHULER
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11/9/23
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Johnston’s Amazon won’t open in 2023. That’s confirmed.
Now the launch has been pushed to a mystery date in 2024.
Johnston Mayor Joseph M. Polisena Jr. expects the …
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About 700 city employees received letters last week informing them that since 2007 the city has been taking more out of their pay for FICA, inclusive of Social Security and Medicare than necessary.
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/9/23
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Gloria Coppola never stops looking for connections that will answer questions.
In this case it is the disappearance of Frank Hanson Jr., 16 who lived in Cranston and was soon to move to Warwick …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/9/23
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Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur doesn’t want to be in the position of saying “I told you so” when a student is injured while getting dropped off or picked up from the Rocky Point …
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By JOHN HOWELL
In August of 2022, Breeze Airways announced it had selected Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport as one of its bases of operations and that over a period of five years …
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11/9/23
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Should Rhode Island’s children have a constitutional right to an education?
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t actually guarantee Americans the right to an education, according to legal …
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By RORY SCHULER
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11/2/23
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