By Abby Fox 

Cait Calvo and Alma Fontana did it when they weren’t teaching. Bob Frederickson did it after work at the Providence Journal. Dave Crossley does it when he’s not working for Met Life insurance. Marie Hennedy made time for it while raising five kids, teaching and serving on the town’s housing authority.

By JONATHAN GIBBS  

BY ABBY FOX

The police station on First Avenue is expected to be complete three weeks after Nov. 1, project manager David Ducharme told the town council at Monday night’s meeting, because the wait for permanent power is holding the project back.

And until the power is put in, the elevator can’t be installed, he explained. A generator has arrived but the police station doesn’t have a transformer yet, he added.

By the first week of October, the windows should be completed, he said, and the roofing is nearly done.

So far the project has had just three change orders, Ducharme said, adding up to less than three-fourths of one percent of the project, or about $50,000. “Give us the details,” at the next meeting, Council President Michael Isaacs told him.

Ducharme reassured the council that three weeks past Nov. 1 would be the “worst case” scenario and “If all the stars are in alignment, I’m projecting a better date than that.”

BY ABBY FOX

Town Council President Michael Isaacs said that consolidating services is “vital to control our costs and control our property taxes in both of our towns,” and said the towns’ commitment is in contrast with the “provincialism” in the rest of the state.

BY ABBY FOX

The request for a change of zone, from Light Industry/Office to Commercial Highway, will be heard at a town council meeting on Oct. 27.

BY ABBY FOX

“It was a good win,” Watson said. “I have a 16-year record that speaks for itself. I know why I’m sent to the General Assembly and I’m very gratified they supported me yesterday.”

The other experienced legislator from East Greenwich, Sen. Michael Lenihan, also had a great victory, in the Democrat primary against opponent Steve Campo, a member of the North Kingstown Town Council. Lenihan beat Campo 343 to 111 in East Greenwich for the Dist. 35 seat and next, he will go up against Republican John Pagliarini in the general election. (In North Kingstown, the votes were a little closer, not surprising given that Campo lives there: 412 to 204.)

By ABBY FOX

East Greenwich’s first farmers’ market, as envisioned by the planning board, is starting up on Academy Field Monday, Sept. 22, and scheduled to run through October.

For weeks now, the board has been talking about the town putting on its own farmers’ market, and board member Douglas Truesdell said he’s worked out a plan that farmers, the board and the neighbors could all agree on.

BY ABBY FOX

“NECAP will count as one-third of the proficiency measure in English and mathematics, though someone will not be unable to graduate, based on state assessments alone,” according to a press release by the Rhode Island Department of Education’s Board of Regents, following a vote the board made at a meeting last Wednesday.

By ABBY FOX

Newly elected commissioner Mark Gee tried out a couple ideas with the rest of the fire district commission at last week’s meeting, but his fellow commissioners didn’t take to most of them.

Gee suggested holding the fire commission election every two years during the other town elections, and not via a separate election at the annual financial town meeting. He also suggested lowering term limits from three years to two years, to bring in fresh blood.