Archive - 2012
February 14th
WOOD RIVER JUNCTION - The Chariho Career and Technical Center welcomed a special guest on Tuesday to give students in the Culinary Arts program taste of food service industry post-secondary education opportunities and employment possibilities.
Source
Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
February 13th
Boys basketball
Narragansett at Chariho, 7 p.m.
East Greenwich at Middletown, 7 p.m.
Prout at Exeter-West Greenwich, 7 p.m.
North Kingstown at Hendricken, 7 p.m.
Westerly at West Warwick, 7 p.m.
Girls basketball
Chariho at Cranston West, 7 p.m.
North Kingstown at Portsmouth, 7 p.m.
La Salle at South Kingstown, 7 p.m.
Cheerleading
West Warwick at RIIL Meet at Warwick Veterans, 7:30 p.m.
Wrestling
Exeter-West Greenwich at Narragansett, 7 p.m.
By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard
EXETER – The long-dormant property owned by Kevin Casey, of Connecticut, operating as Exeter Real Estate – once envisioned as a 99-unit development of senior housing called Cobblestone – is being reimagined.
At a recent planning board work session, Casey announced he's “reassessing his plans,” says Town Planner David W. Schweid. “The master plan [for the original Cobblestone] was approved in April 2008” but has never gone forward, leaving the property to become overgrown and weed-choked.
The economy has forced Casey's hand.
Source
Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
February 12th
Boys basketball
Coventry at South Kingstown, 7 p.m.
Girls basketball
Pilgrim at Exeter-West Greenwich, 7 p.m.
By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard
EXETER – It has been six-and-a-half months since the ribbon was cut with enormous fanfare on the ultra-modern Rhode Island State Fire Academy on the grounds of the old Ladd School.
Some firefighters are grumbling because it’s still not open. So are experts scheduled to be part of the school’s faculty.
Source
Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
WOOD RIVER JUNCTION - It is not often that you see parents and teens openly conversing about drug use in high school, but that was exactly the case Monday night in the Chariho High School library, where a group of seven students spoke candidly and answered the questions of worried parents.
Source
Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
February 11th
WEST GREENWICH – When Dr. Thomas Geismar arrived in 2007 to take over as superintendent of the Exeter-West Greenwich district, he was immersed in an entirely different world from the one he’d left.
As a school official in Broward County, Florida – then the fifth largest district in the country – he was the minority; a white face in a system of African-Americans, Jamaican-Americans, Haitians and Cuban-Americans.
“It couldn’t be more diverse,” says Geismar, 62, “and that includes race, gender, lifestyle. We actually had a diversity committee.”
Source
Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
February 10th
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Men’s basketball
URI at Charlotte, 2 p.m.
Women’s basketball
La Salle at URI, 2 p.m.
Boys basketball
Central Falls vs. West Warwick at CCRI-Warwick, 8:30 p.m.
Cheerleading
East Greenwich, Exeter-West Greenwich, Narragansett at Rogers Red Carpet Invitational at Rogers, 12 p.m.
Gymnastics
Barrington, Middletown, Portsmouth vs. Coventry at Gymnastics RI, 7:30 p.m.
Exeter-West Greenwich, West Warwick vs. Mount Hope at Paramount Gymnastics, 3 p.m.
Boys hockey
Rogers vs. Narragansett at Warburton Ice Rink, 8 p.m.
By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard
WEST GREENWICH – The day after Cris Lopez moved to West Greenwich from Providence’s inner city, his former house was targeted in a drive-by shooting. The attackers returned and broke in, climbing through his bedroom window.
“If we were still there, I would be dead,” he says. “It’s so much safer here.”
He has blossomed at Exeter-West Greenwich High School in the ensuing five years, becoming a star on the undefeated soccer team and a very popular guy who calls himself “a social butterfly.”
Source
Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
WARWICK - There was more cooperation than battle, but 32 teams of Rhode Island high school students had it out in high-tech style Saturday morning under the auspices of New England Institute of Technology.
Before a cheering audience in the competition pits of NEIT's automotive campus, students maneuvered their creations through a combination of bowling and pickup in the sixth annual Rhode Island FIRST Tech Challenge Championship.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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