Archive - 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.
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
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
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
EAST GREENWICH — A light snack and lights on a baseball field...somehow, they just go together.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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
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.
November 12th
Shakespeare inhabits it; so do Will Rogers, Booker T. Washington, William Butler Yeats, Swift, Pope, Keats, Dickinson and two hundred other giants. It is the 1948 book, ‘Leaves of Gold.’ Each week on these pages, our columnist gleans more pearls from its pages.
All we ever seem to do is complain.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NORTH KINGSTOWN – There is a rich history where the Quonset Business Park is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH – When a family has lost a loved one, especially near the holidays, they don’t want presents. They want presence.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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