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Transgender students guaranteed freedom, equality in Bristol Warren
Policy affirms students free to live as the gender with which they identify
Students in Bristol Warren are free to assert whichever gender they identity with, dress how the please within the parameters of the school district dress code, play sports with teammates of the same …
Four Barrington residents victims of bank fraud
One case involved an unexpected deposit of $4,178
Barrington police were presented with four new cases of bank fraud and identity theft recently. On Saturday, March 25, a Richmond Avenue resident contacted police after her credit card company …
In Bristol Warren's PASS program, failure is no option
Mt. Hope High School program attempts to help kids in danger of academic failure
This time last year, Taressa Brownell was lost. The Mt. Hope High School junior was failing many of her classes. She seldom went to class. And though she had always dreamed of owning her own …
Officials tour tattered East Providence High School
Walk through reveals that high school is as bad as reported
EAST PROVIDENCE — On the heels of a report detailing its many areas of neglect and necessity, East Providence High School was toured by a group of elected officials, administrators and …
Here comes The Flood
New NOAA forecast: Ten foot sea rise by century’s end here
By Bruce Burdett Rising seas will soon — much sooner than anyone imagined — inundate beloved parts of Little Compton, Westport and Tiverton. A new forecast (see separate story) calls for an …
Jazz singer Broadway sensation Leslie Odom Jr. makes Newport Jazz Festival Debut Aug. 4
