The Chariho Times

Pension plan unveiled by state leaders

October 27, 2011

PROVIDENCE – A new hybrid plan that combines a traditional pension guarantee with a 401(K)-style plan, a suspension of cost-of-living increases for Rhode Island’s retired government workers for up to 19 years, and a higher retirement age up to 67 years old for current workers 51 years of age are what Governor Lincoln D. Chafee and General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo propose will save the state from its only 48 percent funded pension system and $7 billion unfunded liability.

Whitehouse hears URI students’ concerns on Pell Grants

October 25, 2011

SOUTH KINGSTOWN—Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse visited the University of Rhode Island on Friday to listen to students’ concerns about further cuts to Pell Grant funding for the next school year.

Stump Dump case reaches home stretch

October 21, 2011

RICHMOND - A multi-year long case involving the town, the state and a businessman regarding the property he owns off Skunk Hill Road could very well be over by next week.

Resident brings petition to town council

October 18, 2011

ALTON - The issue of public safety is not taken lightly by the people of Richmond.

Just ask Michael Pennacchia, resident of Bucknam Road in Alton. Pennacchia recently started a petition, signed by the vast majority of his neighbors, asking the town to do something that he believes will be the best interest of public safety in his quiet, rural neighborhood.