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RESULTS ARE IN: Commissioner of Education Deborah Gist releases the 2009 NECAP test results yesterday at Anthony Carnvale Elementary School, Providence.
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The 2009 New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) scores were released yesterday, and the results are mediocre at best. Warwick educators were disappointed with some of the results, especi...
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The metal plate that will remedy the sticking gas pedals of millions of Toyotas costs all of 15 cents and should take no more than 10 minutes to install. Those estimates were provided yesterday...
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There’s not much young blood in the Warwick school system and according to a top administrator – that’s costly. There are currently 1,051 teachers in the Warwick School Department. Out of those t...
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This is the worst of times without any of the best of times for public officials attempting to balance state and municipal budgets. With the budget Gov. Carcieri announced Tuesday, Mayor Scott Av...
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And the award goes to…Gerry Habershaw. Habershaw, principal at Warwick Veterans Memorial High School, was named School Administrator of the Year this week by the Rhode Island Interscholastic At...
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Twenty-eight Warwick Police officers earned more than $100,000 in the 2009 calendar year. (Mayor Scott Avedisian, the city’s chief executive officer, earns $100,000.) As a follow up to the Be...
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Bubble master Keith Michael Johnson
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For some time, blowing bubbles has been a metaphor for not doing anything important, but Warwick’s own Keith Michael Johnson has given the lie to that old chestnut – unless you think the educatio...
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When Kathy Hodge decides to make a series of paintings on a particular theme, she immerses herself in the subject. She has already spent time in a number of national parks as an artist-in-residen...
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THE BOOK OF ELI (Violent, apocalyptic movie with a message) If you want an apocalyptic movie with an unusual twist, you’ll enjoy The Book of Eli. What we did not enjoy was the extreme violence...
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With foreclosures at a record high and jobs moving out of reach for more than 10 percent of working families, many charitable groups are struggling to serve all the people who need help. Fortunat...
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THE LOVELY BONES (Ethereal, compelling drama) Wow! Not since The Sixth Sense have we been captivated by such a compelling, dramatic film. Who would have thought that a story about a child preda...
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SONY PICTURES CLASSICS PRESENTS: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus For the better part of two hours we are taken on a surreal, bizarre, yet oddly entertaining psychedelic trip through Writer/Di...
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If you only recently concluded professional wrestling matches were “worked” in advance, you are over a century late arriving at that conclusion. According to historians of the sport, including Ma...
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YOUTH IN REVOLT (Revolting coming of age movie) Michael Cera plays Nick Twisp, a teenage nerd who lives with his slutty mother and her trailer-trash boyfriend. This revolting movie opens with N...
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There are acting coaches all over America who are terrified that Cranston native Howard Fine’s book, Fine on Acting: A Vision of the Craft (Havenhurst Books; $24.99) will become the best seller i...
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