Archive - Apr 2012
April 11th
A recent Sunday edition of the stateâs daily newspaper had two back section articles that can be described as âGood News-Bad Newsâ.
First, the good news: âForeclosures drag down median house priceâ proclaims a lead story in the real estate section. A condo on chic College Hill went for $105K while a single family house in run-down South Providence sold for $20 thousand. Both of these were properties foreclosed on by the lender or a government agency that backed the mortgage.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN â Peter Lord was the essence of what every journalist should be â fair and honest and an inspiration to his readers, coworkers and students. The award-winning journalist died Wednesday after a battle with brain cancer at the Village House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Newport. He was 60 years old.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN â After he was forced into the spotlight Friday for authorizing a tuition waiver for the executive assistant of the Institute for International Sport, Robert Carothers, ex-president at the University of Rhode Island, made public his plans to retire at the end of June.
Carothers â serving as president emeritus since 2009â opted to accept URIâs one-time voluntary retirement incentive program. He will finish his three-year contract on June 20 with a total $258,882.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
In today's paper, Phil's Restaurant in Wakefield gets a full liquor license. They start serving drinks this Friday.
This week, South Kingstown found out it will receive $53,000 from DEM for upgrades to the Broad Rock Park.
We have more on the Institute for International Sport and how one 1996 memo reveals that ex-president Robert Carothers is the one to authorize free tuition to Daniel Doyle's executive assistant.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
April 10th
NARRAGANSETTâThe Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) released its annual report on Aquaculture, and the outlook is promising. A number of aquaculture businesses, new and old, are thriving in Rhode Islandâs coastal ponds and the growing and harvesting of mainly shellfish, such as oysters, has brought a new dynamic to the local seafood-consuming community.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
April 9th
By LINDSAY OLIVIER
lolivier@ricentral.com
NORTH KINGSTOWN â Congressman Jim Langevin continued his Rhode Island Skilled Economy (RISE) tour in North Kingstown Tuesday morning when he visited Toray Plastics where Senior Vice President of Engineering at Toray Plastics, Shigeru Osada provided an overview of the company and how it is helping college students learn about the engineering field.
For the past few months, the RISE tour has taken Langevin to a variety of venues to address closing the skills gap and strengthening the stateâs economy.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
April 8th
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
pspetrini@ricentral.com
WEST GREENWICHâA special meeting of the Exeter-West Greenwich School Committee last Monday night was suppose to be a chance for members of the public to sit, listen to and ask questions about the proposed 2012-2013 school budget.
Instead, less than a half-dozen of non-School Committee members showed up and the meeting was over in a total of 21 minutes.
Then again, when you have as straight-forward a budget as EWG does this season, thereâs really not much to question.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
April 7th
By LINDSAY OLIVIER
lolivier@ricentral.com
NORTH KINGSTOWN â The battle between the town of North Kingstown and the North Kingstown School Department over which entitity has the right to control the finances of the school district took a new turn last Thursday as Washington Superior Court Judge Brian Stern issued a writ of mandamus to the school committee that it shall not authorize purchase orders or financial commitments unless it can be proven to the town that there will not be an excess of expenditures, encumbrances and accruals over revenues.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
WARWICK â Nicholas Whiteley and Parrick Gronhagen were arraigned last Thursday at Kent County Courthouse for their involvement in a fatal accident in East Greenwich on Feb. 19.
Whiteley, 21, of North Kingstown and Gronhagen, 21, of East Greenwich, faced Associate Judge Pamela Woodcock-Pfeiffer and were told their respective charges in the crash that occurred on Shippeetown Road that claimed the lives of two North Kingstown teenagers.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH â Inside the small, yet expanding Symposium Book store on Main Street on Tuesday, Congressman Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) purchased a hard copy of the George R.R. Martin book, âGame of Thronesâ after looking carefully through the various items of literature with manager Sam Crowe.
The Democrat who represents the Second Congressional District hopes to give the book the same solid read as the one he gained through his mini tour of some businesses on Main Street on the bright, sunny afternoon.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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