Archive - Feb 24, 2012

Locals submit variety of bills at deadline

February 24, 2012

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Just in time for the ticking Thursday, Feb. 16 deadline, South County legislators have submitted a multitude of bills this year, varying from eliminating unfunded state mandates to banning texting while driving and training a skilled workforce.

Wright named Parks and Recreation Director

February 24, 2012

NARRAGANSETT—Beach Superintendent Steven Wright has been named as interim Parks and Recreation Director by Town Manager Grady Miller, temporarily filling a position which has been unfilled on an official basis since the former director, Barry Fontaine, was fired last June. Wright, elected by the town council in May 2011 as Beach Superintendent, has presided over beach operations and helped to direct the clean-up efforts after Tropical Storm Irene hit at the end of last August.

Preview today's Narragansett Times

February 24, 2012

In today's paper, we have the story on the state police investigation on the Institute for International Sport at the URI campus.

After last week's deadline to submit bills, we have what local legislators submitted this year.

On Wednesday, the Narragansett Economic Development Committee discussed plans to bring events surrounding the America’s Cup this July into town.

All that and much more inside today's Narragansett Times.

W. Alton Jones celebrates 50 years

February 24, 2012

WEST GREENWICH - While the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus, Bay campus and Providence campus all have unique characteristics that make them beautiful, URI’s most alluring and charming campus may be none of the three.

Crash claims the lives of two NK residents

February 24, 2012

By DAVID PEPIN &
LINDSAY OLIVIER

EAST GREENWICH– Thomas Meers had just put his one-year-old daughter back to bed at about 3:50 a.m. Sunday morning and was about to fall back asleep himself when he heard a horrible noise not far from his home at 403 Shippeetown Road.
“If you put your head against a board and somebody hit a baseball bat across it, that’s what it sounded like,” said Meers, East Greenwich Fire District captain. “I just started getting dressed and ran out. I knew it was going to be bad.”