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March 22nd, 2013
Throughout their coaching careers Tom Penders and Al Skinner have each heard the trumpets flourish and the wolves at the gates.
Each knows all too well what it feels like to be heralded as a programâs savior and to have fans calling for their jobs.
EXETERâRhode Island Senator Jack Reed paid a visit to the Exeter Job Corps Center this past Friday, speaking with students and other administrators about the work placement programâs importance in the local community and also the potential cuts which the federal government is predicting due to fiscal mismanagement.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
Sabrina Nuttall had one of her best swims of the high school season at the Rhode Island Girls Swimming Championships a little over one month ago and since then the freshman from South Kingstown hasnât slowed down.
Prout goalkeeper Austin Gemma played about as well as anyone could expect a freshman to in game two of Saturdayâs best-of-three Division II Boys Ice Hockey Championship series between the Crusaders and Lincoln.
Unfortunately for Gemma and his Crusader teammates hockey â like most sports â can be fickle.
Circumstance is an essential part of evaluation.
All one has to do to understand that is to look at the University of Rhode Island menâs basketball team this season.
The Rams finished 8-21 overall (3-13 Atlantic 10) and of their 21 losses 15 were by single digits, yet this was a pretty good year for URI.
It took the University of Rhode Island baseball team nine tries before it finally won a game this season.
If the Rams are able to do anything special this season it will be a result of those nine games.
Off the court Prout girls basketball coach Phil Quinn and his step-daughter Brittany Donovan have gotten along ever since they entered each otherâs lives.
âWeâre really close,â Donovan says. âHe came into my life when I was in eighth grade and he was an amazing coach and itâs going to be really hard next year without them. Off the court heâs an amazing dad so I couldnât have asked for anything better.â
As far as defensive performances in a loss go youâd be hard pressed to find a better effort than that of the Prout boys hockey teamâs Saturday.
The Crusaders may have fallen short â dropping a 3-2 overtime decision in game two â of winning the Division II Championship this winter but it wasnât a result of lack of effort.
EAST GREENWICH â One day while reading the paper, Tom Boyle, a former veteran of the United States Navy who was stationed in Algeria during World War II, saw an article about an âHonor Flight,â a program that offers veterans the opportunity to be taken on a trip to Washington, D.C.
Curious and intrigued, Boyle filled out the application and mailed it in to the Rhode Island Fire Chiefâs Association, taking a proverbial shot in the dark in the hopes of visiting the Nationâs Capital for the very first time.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
Thanks to receiving a major grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, a new major curriculum is in the final stages of development at the New England Institute of Technology.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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