Archive - May 2012
May 22nd
EAST GREENWICH â Bridget Kennedy was as proud as the peacock she had just etched at her feet with chalk.
The Moses Brown seventh-grader had just won a second-place award for her colorful bird, fanned out in one of 24 squares chalked off up and down Courthouse Lane during the 11th Annual Arts on Main contest, held on a perfect Saturday, May 12.
âThe first year, my friend and I did a âforest-lookingâ thing. Last year, I did WALL-E from the movie,â said Bridget. âThis year, (I did) a peacock. I love to draw. I practice doing chalk drawings in my driveway.â
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH â Itâs not very often that a person who advises the President of the United States of his finances gets to speak to high-school students, much ado to their hectic schedule.
Therefore, it was a treat for Ted Beck, the Advisory Council on Financial Capability to President Barack Obama, to be in front of a small collection of finance students at East Greenwich High School on Monday talking to them about the importance of being financially stable in an economy that is anything but stable.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH â The East Greenwich Police apprehended two individuals last week that were involved in a home invasion.
Bruce McKenzie, 23, of 760 Park Ave., 2nd Floor, Apt. F, Cranston and Trisha M. Newman, 24, of 102 Summer St. in Central Falls, were placed into custody by police for breaking into the residence of Susan Ramsay, 44, at 1394 Frenchtown Rd. while Ramsay and a 12-year-old female were home at the time.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH â So with all of the constant negotiations that went on over the last few weeks, negotiations that included additional trimmings of the proposed budget, the East Greenwich School Committee received some solace in the Town Councilâs approval of a $175,000 allocation increase on Monday.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
EAST GREENWICH â Once Town Council president Michael Isaacs said Monday evening that the motion for the 2012-13 fiscal budget passed, fellow Councilman Mark Gee said âhallelujahâ in a minor joking fashion.
But it was more of a sigh of relief from all of the parties involved that nearly two monthsâ worth of tinkering and adjusting finally came to a head and, more importantly, to a final number.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
The North Kingstown Standard-Times has learned that former resident Kimberly Fry was sentenced today to 40 years, 20 to serve, for the death of her daughter Camden. Fry could face parole in as little as three-and-a-half years after already serving three years for the 2009 crime. Pick up a copy of this week's Standard-Times for the full story.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
May 21st
By LINDSAY OLIVIER
lolivier@ricentral.com
NORTH KINGSTOWN â Theyâre back!
After years of absence, Joe and Donna Dube, founders of such village mainstays as Wickford Gourmet and Beauty and the Bathare returning to the place they once called home.
The Dubes are in the process of moving Wickford Gourmet Factory Outlet store from its Ten Rod Road location back to the original Wickford Gourmet building at 25 West Main St. and the pair hope to be open for business by Memorial Day.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
PROVIDENCE—Rhode Island Sea Grant held its 11th annual Ronald C. Baird Sea Grant Science Symposium on Wednesday, bringing in scientists and policy experts from North America and Europe to the University of Rhode Island’s Providence Campus. Participants gathered to discuss a topic to which Sea Grant, among other state organizations, have been heavily committed; marine spatial planning.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NARRAGANSETT—On Wednesday evening, The School Committee heard a report from Jeff Broadhead, Executive Director of The Washington County Regional Planning Council (WCRPC) regarding the recent energy saving program into which the town has engaged. The Town Council held a work session last Tuesday to address the town’s energy saving needs through the Energy Services Company project (ESCO).
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
NARRAGANSETT—The Town Council held a work session Monday evening to further discuss the upcoming FY 2012-13 town budget. The town discussed a number of concerns and issues regarding decision-making on the proposed budget which was presented at the April 23 Town Council meeting, namely the rise in property tax values and the need for the town to maintain its current operating and capital fund levels where possible.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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