Archive - Feb 4, 2011 - News Article
CHARLESTOWN â The idea of âgoing greenâ is one that continues to gain traction throughout the country and the entire world, especially as we watch our gasoline and heating prices rise and rise.
NARRAGANSETT â Although the state Division of Public Utilities and Carriers approved plans by a new company, Rogue Island Jitney to run a shuttle service between the URI campus and several bars in Narragansett, opposition amounts. Both URI and State Sen. James C. Sheehan, D-Narragansett, North Kingstown are challenging the PUC's decision.
At the public hearing held Jan. 4, those in opposition, including Narragansett Deputy Police Chief Gerald Driscoll and South Kingstown police's Lieutenant Paul J. Horoho and representatives from URI expressed their belief that the jitney service would become a pub crawl that would allow students to leave campus and purchase alcohol at bars and restaurants in town.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN â The School Committee had its last budget workshop Monday night before it submits the school budget to the town. The committee focused on different scenarios in which school programs or buildings would be cut, how much money to anticipate from the collective bargaining agreements and how this would help close the $1.6 million budget shortfall.
If you know there is no such thing as a free lunch, clearly, you must be aware that there is no such thing as a free vacation.
With school vacation right around the corner and families looking for great travel deals to fill the time, R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin is warning consumers not to be fooled by offers of free or greatly discounted vacations.
This week only, three Roses will be much more than an entire bouquet. This week only, three Roses will live for an amazing 104 years.
This week only, three Roses will flower on the Boston stage and the freshest one bloomed its entire life in East Greenwich.
East Greenwichâs Therese Masse, Emerson College Class of 2011, is starring this week as young Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in the world premiere of âThe Color of Rose,â at Emerson Collegeâs Paramount Center.
A BFA Acting major, Masse, 21, will be joined by professional actors Karen MacDonald, who plays middle-aged Rose, and Judith Roberts, in the role of older Rose. The three women, who will never leave the stage at any time during the performance, will convey the heart-wrenching journey of the grand matriarch of the Kennedy clan.
Boo!
I ask you, what could be scarier than the RI General Assembly mucking up a perfectly good tradition like Halloween?
But South Kingstown Rep. Donald Lally, a deputy whip on Speaker Gordon Foxâs leadership team, has an idea; he wants to fine-tune Halloween. Halloween has been around in one form or another since the mid-1500s, it is celebrated in many parts of the world, but Lally suddenly wants the General Assembly to fix it.
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