Archive - Feb 17, 2012
SOUTH KINGSTOWN â Green signs exclaiming âvote yesâ rattled throughout the town council chamber Wednesday night as the downtown Wakefield community poured into the town hall to support Philâs Restaurant owners Carl and Kenneth Tetzner and the Contemporary Theater Companyâs plans to revitalize Main Street. Despite the flood of support for the plans, the zoning board postponed their decision until Tuesday.
âI thought this would be the night we got an answer. We all did,â Carl Tetzner said after the board meeting.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN â The town council meeting was caught in a stalemate Monday night as union leaders repeatedly asked for apologies from Councilman Jim OâNeill, who remained steadfast in his silent refusal to give into what they wanted.
âI spoke at the last town council meeting. I expect an apology for the way I was treated and comments I received from a certain town council member,â Deborah Bergner, resident and member of the Democratic Town Committee said. âI was using my right as a citizen and taxpayer and was treated poorly.â
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NARRAGANSETT â Auditor General Dennis E. Hoyle released his audit report on Daniel E. Doyle, Jr.âs failure to repay funds to the both the University of Rhode Island and the state. Doyle, who has served at the Executive Director for the Institute of International Sport at URI since 1986, was audited after concerns were expressed to the Auditor Generalâs office about the unfinished state of the instituteâs residential and coaching center, for which a state grant of $575,000 was given in 2007.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
Boys basketball
Chariho at West Warwick, 7 p.m.
Hendricken at Coventry, 7 p.m.
Mount Hope at East Greenwich, 7 p.m.
Westerly at Narragansett, 7 p.m.
North Kingstown at South Kingstown, 7 p.m.
Girls basketball
Exeter-West Greenwich at Chariho, 7 p.m.
Mount Hope at East Greenwich, 5:15 p.m.
Narragansett at Cranston East, 7 p.m.
South Kingstown at North Kingstown, 7 p.m.
West Warwick at Prout, 7 p.m.
Boys hockey
Pilgrim vs. Coventry at West Warwick Civic Center, 9:30 p.m.
Prout vs. East Greenwich at West Warwick Civic Center, 8 p.m.
By LINDSAY OLIVIER
lolivier@ricentral.com
NORTH KINGSTOWN â For the better part of a couple months now, North Kingstown school officials and town administrators have debated two key questions: Whoâs going to pay for a new roof at Davisville Middle School and what account or bond it will come from?
Monday evening came the first glance at a potential solution.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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