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Indoor track still a no-go for EWG

October 16, 2012

By ANGELENA CHAPMAN
Special to the Standard

WEST GREENWICH—At Tuesday night’s school committee meeting, a request for a district-funded indoor track program was sent back to the creative funding skills of those involved.
The Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School Committee cited both hockey and gymnastics’ previous desires to have programs funded by the district in their decision.

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Community members speak out on clean water

October 15, 2012

By SHAUN KIRBY
skirby@ricentral.com

WARWICK — State officials and local businessmen gathered on Tuesday at Goddard Park to support Questions 5 and 6 on the upcoming ballot for November’s election. The two items, which have already passed through the General Assembly, would provide $40 million in bond support for clean water and open space initiatives throughout the state.

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Tell Me Your Story: Former NK teacher chooses bilateral mastectomy

October 14, 2012

By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard

NORTH KINGSTOWN – What most people would regard as tragic is not how Anne Huling views the toll taken on her body through numerous surgeries and progressive deafness that forced her to end the teaching career she loved.
She is a survivor in every sense of the word; her spirit has risen to fight lung cancer which she feels was caused by second-hand smoke in a small, windowless teacher’s lounge.
She has battled back from abdominal surgery after two small growths were found in the colon: she also had her gall bladder removed.

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Pixar Studios to hold 'Masterclass' at New England Tech

October 13, 2012

By JAMES MEROLLA
Special to The Standard

EAST GREENWICH – New England Tech is “UP” these days. Or will be, at least, on Oct. 12-13.
The school will be “UP” and “Monsters, Inc.” and “Brave,” and “Monsters University” (the next movie in 2013), and all those Pixar film titles when top animators from that prolific movie franchise conduct a two-day workshop at the East Greenwich campus.

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NK honors top teacher, ESP worker

October 12, 2012

By TRACEY O’NEILL
Special to the Standard

NORTH KINGSTOWN–Prior to the North Kingstown School Committee’s scheduled work session on Tuesday evening, members of the school committee, staff, family and friends joined Superintendent Philip Auger in honoring two North Kingstown education workers.
Receiving awards were Toni-Annette Sylveira, named Teacher of the Year and Elizabeth Tully, taking Top Educational Support Worker of the Year.

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Preview the Standard-Times today!

October 11, 2012

It's mid-October and that means two things: Pumpkins are everywhere and it's time to start thinking about the upcoming election.
In this week's Standard-Times, we bring you the latest on a clean water-initiative that has been championed by local and state officials and is up for approval this November. In addition, we catch you up on all the happenings at the EWG and NK School Committees and present you a look at a special breast cancer survivor from North Kingstown that wants to share her story.
All that and much, much more in this week's Standard-Times. Pick up a copy today!

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CURMUDGEON'S CORNER: Political ads aren't just silly, they're insulting (OPINION)

October 10, 2012

This is the season of political ads on TV and radio. Some of them are silly while others are insults to the intelligence of voters.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is hammering the old reliable Democrat vote-getter in Rhode Island: the Republicans want to take away your Medicare. Whitehouse is shown in his ad addressing nodding and smiling senior citizens who appear to be in a nursing home environment.

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Nautical Impressions shipping out after 14 years

October 9, 2012

By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Behind a locked door – to avoid being interrupted by customers; surely a first for a businessman – Jim Grogan spent Sunday packing up Nautical Impressions, the sea-themed shop on Updike Park that he’s operated for 14 years.
As rousing chanteys played in the background, he talked about the decision he and his wife, Dale, owner of The World Store whose entrance is directly opposite and only a few feet from his, had to make. “Our accountant said we’d just been put into a corner,” said Jim Grogan.

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Farming to be celebrated on Monday

October 8, 2012

By
MARTHA SMITH

WARWICK – Anne Holst remembers growing up at Clouds Hill Farm, in the Cowesett area in a Victorian home – passed down through generations of women – as a place where goats roamed, hay was cut and her mother, the legendary Nancy Allen Holst, kept a donkey which she rode to the neighbor’s each morning for coffee.

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Updike Park Christmas tree headed for a fall

October 7, 2012

By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard

NORTH KINGSTOWN – If all goes according to plan, the massive pine in Updike Park that has served as the town Christmas tree for many years will make its final appearance in the spotlight this holiday season.
And, in the evergreen equivalent of “All About Eve”, a gorgeous ingénue is waiting in the wings.
“We have been talking about trying to put a better tree in Updike Park,” says public works director Phil Bergeron. The old tree has become “very tall, thinned out” to the point that the entire thing “can’t be lit.”

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