Archive - Nov 14, 2011
HOPKINTON - Hope Valley Elementary Fourth Grade Social Studies Teacher Denise Moretti-Foggo believes that when students gain first-hand experience of what they are being taught, by seeing and touching, it helps them commit the knowledge to memory.
She had been teaching her students about the history of Rhode Island, and more specifically the history of Hopkinton, in recent weeks, in preparation for Historical Hopkinton: A Living History Day Field Trip.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NORTH SCITUATE — For the first mile of Sunday’s Rhode Island state girls cross country race at Ponaganset High’s Cover Bridge 5,000-meter course, everything was going according to plan for South Kingstown senior Paige Ethier.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN –A male high school graduate who works until age 65 will earn, on average, nearly $333,000 more than a high school dropout, while a worker with some college education will earn $538,000 more according to a report by Education and Synthetic Work-Life Earnings. These are some of the statistics South Kingstown guidance counselors and principals will use to convince students to finish their education after state law changed regarding when a student can withdraw from school.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH — A light snack and lights on a baseball field...somehow, they just go together.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
JAMESTOWN – A fishing trip turned deadly over the weekend when a boat carrying three friends sank in Jamestown, leading to one fatality.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
COVENTRY- The Coventry Land Trust has received $325,000 after the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) awarded the state $4.3 million in open space grants.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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