Archive - Nov 2011
November 14th
PROVIDENCE — A lot of people around the Chariho area thought that this fall was going to be a rebuilding year for their high-school football team given what the Chargers had lost from the previous season.
WOOD RIVER JUNCTION - A new calendar for the Chariho Regional School District that will consolidate spring vacation weeks and shorten the school year will be implemented during the 2012-2013 school year.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NARRAGANSETT—The town council passed a motion on Monday evening aimed at cutting down further the amount and nature of disturbances in Narragansett related to property rentals. The new ordinance seeks to recoup costs for responding police officers to rental properties which have repeatedly violated the town’s public nuisances laws.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Steve DiCenso sits behind the desk in his very nice office in West Davisville Commons, an enterprise he began creating a decade ago from a rundown former Navy vehicle-and-equipment storage facility.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
COVENTRY—The Heart and Soul Ball at the end of this month will give you an excuse to dust off your best black tie attire—all to support a cause.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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
November 13th
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
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