Archive - Jan 25, 2012
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The community will now have the opportunity to turn the lights on or off on LED signs in the Wakefield commercial district.
The town council was preparing to make its final decision on whether businesses can advertise using LED electronic, message board signs on Feb. 23. After the recommendation of the Planning Board, that decision will be put off until Aug. 27 to allow for public input.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NARRAGANSETT — The students gathered, ready to have their Lego creations adjudicated. Hundreds of students from schools all over the state, including Narragansett Pier School, met at Roger Williams University on Saturday, January 14, to participate in the First Lego League tournament, a contest which aims to develop students’ teamwork and problem-solving skills at an age when it is critical.
“There were 400 students there and our students did very well,” said NPS Assistant Principal Marianne Kirby. “They were excited and pleased.”
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
Governor J. Joseph Garrahy, who served as state leader from 1977 to 1985, passed away earlier this week.
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Governor J. Joseph Garrahy, who served as state leader from 1977 to 1985, passed away earlier this week.
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William A. Foster, former publisher of the East Greenwich Pendulum for two decades before retiring in 1984, died at his Florida retirement home in Bradenton, Fla. on Monday. He was 88.
A native of Framingham, Mass., Foster earned his degree in Journalism from Northeastern University and spent his first 20 years in the field with a series of advertising and public relations positions with Westinghouse, W.R. Grace.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
For the second time in less than a year, State Rep. Robert A. Watson is facing a charge of marijuana possession after a car stop.
Watson, deposed by the House Republican caucus as majority leader after last April’s arrest in East Haven, Conn., was arrested close to midnight Saturday in South Kingstown in the parking lot of Washington County Veterinary Hospital, 4263 Tower Hill Road, after a driver plowing snow in the lot reported Watson’s car – with the front driver’s side tire missing – almost hit him, according to South Kingstown police.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
Before they could even begin, contract talks between the School Committee and the East Greenwich Education Association, the NEARI-affiliated union representing the district's teachers, have hit a snag.
In a release put out Monday afternoon by the School Department, the administration and School Committee expressed disappointment in the union for declining their invitation to begin negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. The current agreement expires Aug. 31.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH — At first glance, the goal for a March 31 reopening of the Greenwich Odeum seems just a dream.
No lights in the theater. No seats. A chaotic mess on stage. And on a subfreezing January morning outside, it’s not much warmer inside.
But if you look closely, you can see a few signs that argue otherwise.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH — The Flood Auto Group’s planned Quick Lane auto service center, at the northeast corner of South County Trail and Frenchtown Road, received a better reception from the Planning Board last Wednesday than it did in its first pre-application hearing in November.
The proposed seven-bay oil change and tire center, along with a car wash, still needs plenty of work, with board members citing the intensity of development on the site and difficulty visitors will have making left turns.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
The East Greenwich/Warwick office of Rhode Island Medical Imaging is expected to be back in full operation by today after a car crashed into the facility last Thursday morning.
The driver, Denny Witkowski of 42 Lyman Ave,, Warwick, was not injured in the accident, in which his car crashed through the wall of the facility.
Witkowski told police he was pulling into a parking space in front of the building when he mistakenly hit the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal, sending the car crashing into the X-ray room. He was not charged by police.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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