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PRIOR TO THE CELEBRATION: From left to right, Boston Fed President and CEO Eric Rosengren, CCAP President and CEO Joanne McGunagle and Mayor Allan W. Fung chat prior to Thursday's roundtable.
Cranston awarded $400K to improve 'social cohesion'
By JACOB MARROCCO Cranston community leaders came together last Thursday at one of the city's central locations, the Pastore Center on Gansett Avenue, for some significant news. The Boston Federal Reserve's Working Cities Challenge last week awarded a more
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Three Cranston natives contribute for Wildcats
Three Cranston natives suited up for the Johnson & Wales baseball team this spring, and all three earned all-conference recognition from the Great Northeast Athletic Conference on Monday. Leading the way was Brandon Budlong, who was the more
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HIGH-FIVES ALL AROUND: Waterman students lined the hallways to give high-fives to the seniors as they walked by.
East seniors walk back in time, reach out to future
By JEN COWART The seniors at Cranston High School East weren't quite sure why they had been gathered for an assembly on Monday morning, May 15. They sat, waiting and listening, as they held their graduation caps and gowns still in plastic covering, on more
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The benefits of regional carbon pricing
To the Editor: Energize Rhode Island Act (H5369/S365) is a landmark bill that would apply a simple and transparent fee on carbon pollution in our state, in coordination with similar bills being … more
ALEX MARTINEZ
East outlasts West in marathon game
The Cranston East Thunderbolts edged the Cranston West Falcons, 5-4, in 16 innings on Monday evening at Cranston Stadium. East senior Jake Palazzo had three hits and knocked in two runs and West senior Nik SanAntonio had more
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4th Annual Brian Moretti Hockey Classic set for Saturday
The 4th Annual Brian Moretti Hockey Classic will be played this Saturday at 4 p.m. at Cranston Ice Rink. The classic has been a much-anticipated event in Cranston's hockey community since its inception in 2014. Moretti, who more
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A bad deal for Cranston
To the Editor: The now withdrawn proposal to change Doric Park was a bad deal not just for the residents of Doric Park neighborhood but for all of Cranston. In exchange for a turf field that would have dramatically changed the park, the City would have more
INFLUENCING THE VOTE: Posters hung throughout the school over the past weeks, alerting the school community to the fourth-graders' push to change the school's mascot from a tiger to a horseshoe crab.
The votes are in: Horseshoe crab prevails as Rhodes mascot
By JEN COWART For months, the fourth grade students at E.S. Rhodes Elementary School in Susan Weber's and Stephanie Pearson's classes have been working hard researching, educating and lobbying their school community for a change in the traditional school more
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Cranston East hosts night of music and magic
By PAM SCHIFF Despite the pouring rain last Friday night, May 5, almost 200 packed into the Cranston East auditorium to see the performances of the East concert and jazz bands, joined by special guest performer, magician Bruce Kalver. The show last" more
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Bain announces third quarter honors
Grade 8 High Honors Ivan Abreu Paniagua, Matthew Babalato, Abigail Cahill, Aya Chamout, Danielle Hurtado, Melody Quenga Grade 8 Honors Mohamad Almierrawi, Andres Andjuar, Gia Barkett, Jewliana Barry, Halie Biagetti, Ricardo Bolivar, Sabiha Can, Dustin more
Seeding tradition
Seeding tradition Park View Middle School commemorated Arbor Day last Thursday with the planting of a tree donated by the Edgewood Garden Club. The tree was planted with 8th grade students from the Patriots team. The Edgewood Garden Club member on-site more
WIITH PAPPY: Mark Greene, owner of Westwood Cartage, Inc., in Cranston, is pictured with Anthony Michael, 2, at the Cranston Rotary Touch A Truck. Young Anthony calls Mark, “Pappy.”
Cranston Rotary invites public to ‘Touch a Truck’
Cranston Chatter
By MERI R. KENNEDY A patriotic Eagle Scout project Nicholas Bombardier, of Troop 66 Garden City, will be holding a citywide collection of old and tattered American Flag's for his Eagle Scout Merit Badge project. He is a 17-year-old and a junior at more
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PORING OVER THE NUMBERS: From left, Citywide John Lanni, Jr., Ward 4’s Trent Colford, Ward 2’s Paul McAuley and Finance Committee Chairman Michael Favicchio discuss the budget on Monday.
$284.6M budget okayed, schools to get $1.1M more
By JACOB MARROCCO The Cranston City Council approved a $284.6 million city budget for 2017-18 at a special meeting Monday night, setting aside an extra $420,795 for the school department in contingency funds in the process. Pairing that total with the more
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SPEAKING OUT: Cranston’s Sue Coutu, whose daughter Kristen passed away from a drug overdose three years ago, discussed ways to address the opioid epidemic during a Friday interview at her Western Hills office.
Hitting home
By JACOB MARROCCO Sue Coutu wasn't too aware of the opioid crisis five years ago, but that changed quickly. It was only around 18 months after her daughter, Kristen, revealed she was using heroin before she passed away from a fatal overdose in 2014. The more
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GUEST SPEAKER: Speaker of the House Nick Mattiello joined the fifth-graders in Theresa Vessella’s class on Monday morning for some discussion about the environment and their work to address the issue of a lack of any formalized recycling program in the school cafeteria.
Speaker of the House makes a visit to Oaklawn
By JEN COWART Each year, the fifth-grade students in Theresa Vessella's class participates in Project Citizen, a civics project which gives students the opportunity to learn about issues at hand in their communities and to work to affect change through more
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Police Log
DOMESTIC ASSAULT Officer Mcintyre arrested Gabriel Deltoro, 43, of 66 Roberts St. in Warwick, on May 6 at 10:25 a.m. for domestic simple assault and domestic disorderly conduct. His arrest is the result of subject turning himself into the Cranston Police more
LAMMIS VARGAS
Vargas beats cancer, looks to future
By JACOB MARROCCO Shortly after announcing her bid for a citywide seat on the Cranston City Council last summer, Lammis Vargas was in for the fight of her life. Vargas, 35, was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL) just weeks after declaring more
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ALL TOGETHER NOW: The top three winners from the Barnes and Noble My Favorite Teacher contest, both students and teachers, were honored among family, colleagues and administrators on April 26 in an emotional ceremony at the Warwick Barnes and Noble store.
Barnes & Noble celebrates local winners of 'My Favorite Teacher' contest
By JEN COWART The impact that teachers make on students was on display on Wednesday, April 26. Barnes and Noble celebrates teachers each school year by asking students to choose one who has been their favorite and write an essay about the role that more
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RYDER’S NOSE KNOWS: RICSAR dog Ryder checks out the property on Brayton complex looking for the cemetery of seven girls from the former Oaklawn School for Girls.
The mystery of the Oaklawn School for Girls
By PAM SCHIFF Before there was Brayton Park and the Hope Alzheimer's center, there was the Oaklawn School for Girls. Built in 1880, it was the sister school to Sockanosset Boys School. The building has since been demolished, but the land holds a secret more
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CFD ceremony sees promotions, inductions and history
By JACOB MARROCCO The Cranston Fire Department held its first swearing-in ceremony in nearly a decade on Thursday inside the Cranston East auditorium, which included the promotion of nearly 30 firefighters and the induction of 16 new probationary more
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A LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE: Kristin DiVona, a RISD graduate, shares some of the images she has worked on with NASA which come in from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. She works to take the binary code images that come in and changes them to show the general public what is happening out in space using artistic images.
Putting the 'A' in STEAM
By JEN COWART With so much recent emphasis placed on the need for more women in the STEM fields, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, one might not have even noticed the addition of the A in what is now a new and improved acronym: STEAM, more
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Collector's Sale of Estates
CITY OF CRANSTON COLLECTOR’S SALE OF ESTATES FOR TAXES AND/OR ASSESSMENTS DUE AND UNPAID The undersigned Treasurer of the City of Cranston hereby gives notice that he will sell at … more
Collector's Sale of Estate
COLLECTOR’S SALE OF ESTATES FOR TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS DUE AND UNPAID CITY TREASURER’S OFFICE The undersigned City Treasurer and Collector of Taxes of the City of Cranston hereby gives … more
Shining Stars
Turn back the clock more than 11 years and Arlene McNulty, then president of the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership, was looking for a signature event that set mentoring apart from other non-profits … more
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