Archive - Apr 2012
April 7th
EAST GREENWICH — Much ado to the debt service numbers within the Town, the budget for the upcoming fiscal year will see a slight increase.
East Greenwich Town Manager William Sequino told a small group of reporters inside his office at Town Hall Monday morning that the budget for the 2012-2013 Fiscal Year will be $50,485,080, which is a 6.33-percent increase from the current budget ($47,478,275).
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GRENWICH — With a joint meeting with the Town Council beckoning Monday, the School Committee is contemplating a stand over the $400,000 it is being asked to cut from its fiscal 2013 budget proposal.
Committee members struggled to find ways Tuesday night to cut the $400,000 Town Manager William Sequino Jr. is asking it to from its $31,375,450 request to the town, lowering the figure to a 1.55 percent increase over the current budget. Overall, the proposed FY 2013 school budget is $33,756,000.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
April 6th
By LINDSAY OLIVIER
lolivier@ricentral.com
NORTH KINGSTOWN – The North Kingstown School Department received a bit of good news Tuesday evening as the results of a special referendum showed that a proposed $6.4 million bond for repairs throughout the district was approved by a wide majority.
In a special election Tuesday, voters approved authorizing the town to finance replacements, renovations and related equipment for projects at the area schools, more specially, to replace the failing roof at Davisville Middle School (DMS).
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – While working for Executive Director Daniel Doyle at the Institute for International Sport, one Wakefield woman received free college tuition on top of $20,500 annual pay from the University of Rhode Island.
Lorna Prout Wright was on the URI payroll for 15 years as the executive assistant to Doyle – the man at the center of a state police investigation examining how millions of state dollars intended to support the World Scholar Athlete Games and construct an empty-shell of a building on the Kingston campus went missing.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – For the past 23 years, tensions strained the relationship between the University of Rhode Island and the Institute for International Sport as URI officials fought for thousands of dollars the nonprofit and its executive director Daniel Doyle owed the school.
Documents released this week to The Narragansett Times - spanning the Institute’s beginnings in 1985 to its apparent closure in 2012 when a state police investigation began – reveal that URI officials began chasing Doyle down for money as early as 1989.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
In today's paper, we have how documents released to the Narragansett Times this week reveal a strained relationship between the Institute for International Sport and URI for several years.
Also, this week the Narragansett School Superintendent Katherine Sipala presented the $24.7 million school budget with a request for an increase of $467,678.
On Thursday, Narragansett High School had a threat of a student bringing weapons to school that proved to be a product of social media.
All and more inside today's Narragansett Times.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
April 5th
By LAUREN KNIGHT
lknight@ricentral.com
PROVIDENCE — Not every 17-year-old takes a public stand on a social issue. Yet Ashley Reese, a senior at Exeter-West Greenwich High School, did just that last Wednesday afternoon at the Statehouse.
Reese, in partnership with the Rhode Island Coalition Against Human Trafficking, spoke before a crowd of people about how, despite laws, the sex trafficking industry can still pull in women and children in Rhode Island.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NARRAGANSETT—As spring approaches, golf course maintenance crews rise early to tend to the landscaped environment. Point Judith Country Club (PJCC) in Narragansett will begin the same process with new vigor after being recognized through the Department of Environmental Management (DEM)’s Rhode Island Golf Course Green Certification Program as a leader of environmental stewardship and sustainability.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
PROVIDENCE – In light of the investigation into the Institute for International Sport and how it spent millions of dollars in state grants, House Leaders have taken measures that would provide more oversight to money doled out to nonprofits and community service agencies.
This is the first year since 2007 House leaders have taken action to look into where money for community service grants is going and how it is used.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
April 4th
Ever since the NK School Committee began discussing a special $6.4 million dollar bond issue to repair the roof at Davisville Middle School-in addition to taking care of a number of pet projects-local taxpayers and residents have come out in droves to express their opinion on the matter.
This week, those in favor of the bond won out.
In this week's Standard-Times, we bring you the results from that all-day referendum as well as preview next week's vote for the Exeter-West Greenwich School Budget.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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