Archive - Nov 2011
November 11th
This has been a hard month, losing Andy Rooney, Steve Jobs, and Charlie Preble all within weeks of each other.
Well, my world will never be the same.
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – Quick! List everything you can think of that’s located at Quonset Point.
Okay, Electric Boat. Then what?
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COVENTRY—The newly renovated World War I Memorial will be rededicated this Saturday and the public is invited to join.
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CRANSTON – The unique sound a field hockey ball makes when it hits the back of the cage is different than anything in sports, especially when it ends a game and in the case of the East Greenwich field hockey team, their quest at winning back-to-back state championships.
CHARLESTOWN - Former Town Council President James M. Mageau has accused some town employees of conducting an illegal fundraising campaign, and has also accused current Councilman Daniel J. Slattery of attempting to cover it up.
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November 10th
“I hope you’re saving these photos mom, they’re priceless,” reads a letter home from England during WWII, dated May 28, 1945. I found the note in an old oak box full of amazing photographs that my Grandfather, Cpl. John H. Clancy took while serving as a photographer for the Mighty 8th Air Force, 303rd Bombardment, 358th Squadron. It finishes, “Don’t worry Mom, everything is good and we’ll all be home before you know it, and won’t that just be swell. That big kiss in the sunrise. Love, My John.”
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EAST GREENWICH — East Greenwich’s first venture into the world of co-op interscholastic sports may put five local girls on the ice for R.I. Interscholastic League hockey this winter.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
While state legislators work to conduct a plan for pension reform, bids to amend aspects of the bill are taking place.
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EAST GREENWICH - The Planning Board was hoping to see and hear a little more about Flood Auto Group's plan to build a tire and oil change facility at the northeast corner of South County Trail and Frenchtown Road, across from its auto dealership.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NORTH KINGSTOWN - Despite the rough economic times Rhode Island is still facing, the show that is the 26th Annual Festival of Lights in Wickford will go on.
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