Archive - May 2012
May 16th
A 13-percent supplemental tax really stinks.
There is no way around that fact for people who live in Woonsocket, so it is best to just put it out there from the start: After you have paid all your property and automobile taxes for the year, to be hit with a bill for an extra 13 percent and get nothing for it except to balance the city’s books is the rancid cherry atop a crap sundae.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
RICHMOND - Most Rhode Islanders are familiar with Bob’s Discount Furniture. Whether or not they have actually bought a mattress or living room set at the retail furniture chain is irrelevant– everyone has seen or heard the quirky commercials on television and radio that feature an animated version of Bob himself or even local sports heroes.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
May 15th
Baseball
Coventry at Chariho, 4 p.m.
Middletown at East Greenwich, 4 p.m.
Tiverton vs. North Kingstown at Lischio Field, 4 p.m.
South Kingstown at Portsmouth at 4 p.m.
Golf
Chariho, Coventry vs. Westerly at Shelter Harbor Golf Club, 3 p.m.
Exeter-West Greenwich, Narragansett vs. South Kingstown at Laurel Lane Golf Course, 3:30 p.m.
Prout vs. North Kingstown at Jamestown Golf Course, 2:45 p.m.
Boys lacrosse
Coventry at Toll Gate, 3:30 p.m.
Girls lacrosse
Narragansett vs. Middletown at Gaudet Middle School, 6 p.m.
North Kingstown vs. Cranston West at Cranston Stadium, 3:30 p.m.
May 14th
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
pspetrini@ricentral.com
NORTH KINGSTOWN—Longtime community news photographer Ray Clayton, who passed away last December following an award-winning career with Southern Rhode Island Newspapers (SRIN), was inducted posthumously into the Rhode Island Press Association’s Journalism Hall of Fame. The event occured May 4 during the organization’s annual banquet at the Quonset “O” Club in North Kingstown.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
Baseball
Prout vs. Exeter-West Greenwich at Wawaloam Field, 4 p.m.
West Warwick vs. Westerly at Cimalore Field, 4 p.m.
Golf
Coventry, Narragansett vs. North Kingstown at North Kingstown Golf Course, 3 p.m.
East Greenwich, Cranston West vs. Warwick Veterans at Warwick Country Club, 3 p.m.
Boys lacrosse
Toll Gate at Narragansett, 3:45 p.m.
North Kingstown at La Salle, 6:30 p.m.
Prout vs. South Kingstown at Curtis Corner Middle School, 7 p.m.
Girls lacrosse
South Kingstown vs. Prout at Ninigret Park, 4 p.m.
Softball
Narragansett at Portsmouth, 4 p.m.
May 13th
By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard
NORTH KINGSTOWN – The Rev. Virginia Heistand, a single mom of three, sits in her sun-drenched, book-filled study in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Beaming, she declares, “Everything in my world has changed in the last three months and it’s wonderful.”
In that timeframe, she has become the venerable Wickford church’s first female full-time minister – although other women have served in interim roles – and, after a career in clergy housing, she has purchased her first home, in rural Hope Valley.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
Baseball
Chariho vs. South Kingstown at Old Mountain Field, 4 p.m.
Portsmouth at Coventry, 3:30 p.m.
East Greenwich vs. North Kingstown at Lischio Field, 4 p.m.
Narragansett at North Smithfield, 3:45 p.m.
Central at Prout, 4:15 p.m.
Ponaganset vs. West Warwick at McCarthy Field, 3:45 p.m.
Golf
Chariho, South Kingstown vs. Prout at Potowomut Golf Club, 3:30 p.m.
Westerly vs. Exeter-West Greenwich at Pinecrest Golf Club, 3 p.m.
West Warwick vs. Cranston West at Cranston Country Club, 2:30 p.m.
Boys lacrosse
Warwick Veterans at Coventry, 3:45 p.m.
May 12th
NORTH KINGSTOWN – If you entered a crowded room – Starbuck’s on Ted Rod Road, say – and were looking for a rugby player whose day job involves setting up massive stage equipment for rock concerts, your eye would immediately fall on Mike Martin.
He is, well, burly and looks as though he could hold his own in a scrum.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
CHARLESTOWN - In a letter sent to the town council last Friday, Charlestown Chief of Police Jack Shippee announced his intentions to retire. His last day will be June 5.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
May 11th
By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard
Typically, Mother’s Day is a time to wax sentimental about all the sacrifices our moms made for us and how they established family rituals we recall warmly.
But we all know it’s not so simple. Most moms – no matter how distinguished their public lives or how glowing their history as maternal role models – also have funny little quirks. They do or say things in unforgettable ways that, years later, pop into our minds provoking uncontrollable laughter.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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