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By PETE FONTAINE Johnston High School's football Panthers honored the nation's veterans in a huge way last Friday night inside Mayor Joseph M. Polisena Stadium. Score-wise, head coach Joe Acciardo's football force didn't come out on top against the
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By Pete Fontaine
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10/5/16
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“I’m sure Gary would be happy with what we’re going,†James Hopkins, a former teacher and coach who chairs the Johnston High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee, said the other night. …
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By Pete Fontaine
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10/5/16
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The CCRI Lady Knights volleyball team traveled to New Hampshire Tech in Concord, New Hampshire, to compete in the New Hampshire Tech Lynx Volleyball Invitational on Saturday. The Lady Knights went 3-1 and won the tournament Championship. CCRI defeated
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10/5/16
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Woman pleads guilty to assaulting developmentally disabled child
A woman charged with assaulting a nine-year-old developmentally disabled boy in Cranston nearly three years ago has pleaded …
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By Daniel Kittredge
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10/5/16
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City to `Pok mon Go' players: Be safe, respectful By now, it has likely become a familiar sight to many - people wandering outdoors, their eyes trained on their smartphones, seemingly in search of something unseen. The release of
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By Daniel Kittredge
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10/5/16
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As the start to the new school year gets closer, John McCarthy is reflecting on the successes of his first year as chair of the Cranston Educational Advisory Board (CEAB) and looking ahead. The group meets monthly all year long to discuss
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By Jen Cowart
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10/5/16
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At the age of 10, Coventry High School senior Jason Hoskins saw extreme poverty for the first time and was forever changed by it. Now, as college interviews and applications loom ahead, he's about to be able to do something about it. We"
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By Jen Cowart
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10/5/16
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Cranston woman pleads guilty to preparing false tax returns A Cranston woman has pleaded guilty to preparing false income tax returns for clients and receiving a portion of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fraudulently
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By Daniel Kittredge
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10/5/16
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After years of setting empty, what was once a shopping destination for Rhode Islanders - the Midland Mall, to later become the Rhode Island Mall - has a tenant. On Friday, Mayor Scott Avedisian cut the ribbon to officially open Burlington
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By John Howell
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10/5/16
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Library to hold Passport Day The Cranston Public Library will hold its annual Passport Day on Saturday, Oct. 8. U.S. citizens planning international travel may apply for their passports at the Central Library between 2 p.m. and 5 pm.
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By Meri R. Kennedy
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10/5/16
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It's official - Dave's Marketplace will open a new location in Cranston. The company formally announced the long-rumored plans this week. The new store at 550 Pontiac Ave. will be the chain's 10th in Rhode Island. Construction is
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By Daniel Kittredge
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10/5/16
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FAST FOOD FOLLIES Eating fast food may make one sleepy, but it wasn't a Big Mac that made one driver pass out at a McDonald's drive through speaker. On September 16, just before 8:30 p.m., Officer Manuel Pacheco and other members of the police department
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10/5/16
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The Warwick Police Department has released an image of the Bank of America robbery suspect.
In a Facebook post Friday afternoon, the department released the following information:
On …
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10/5/16
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According to information provided by the school administration, almost 90 percent of Warwick's 897 teachers would make more than $79,000 - and some with longevity and coaching stipends more than $100,000 a year - under the contract
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By John Howell
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10/5/16
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The day following his selection as the man to rebuild passenger traffic to the levels they were in 2005, if not exceed them, Iftikhar Ahmad was quoting Socrates and sharing his personal quandary as to whether he should introduce a dog to
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By John Howell
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10/5/16
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GOTTA CATCH `EM ALL A driver playing Pok mon Go around Oakland Beach caught more than a Pikachu when he told officers he had vodka mixed drinks and I smoked a roach and it got my head all messed up" after being stopped for driving erratically."
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10/5/16
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The final resting place of a family that helped found Warwick got a little help from a community that deeply cares about the city's history. Historical Cemetery 107, where many members of the Holden family were laid to rest, was in rough
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By Tessa Roy
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10/5/16
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Father Robert Marciano is a quick-change artist. Saturday he was attired in church vestments as he officiated the 5 p.m. Mass at St. Kevin. Then in barely minutes he was wearing the Air Force blue uniform, for Father Marciano is a pastor
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By John Howell
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10/5/16
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Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur, left, who faced Republican candidate Danny Hall in the 2012 election, endorsed his former opponent as a candidate for the School Committee this week. Ladouceur said he talked with Hall and he has the"
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10/5/16
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Bishop Hendricken High School added seven to its Hall of Fame at an on-campus induction ceremony Sunday.
“Through time, talent and treasure, all of this year’s inductees have made significant …
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10/5/16
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To the Editor, This letter concerns the upcoming mayoral election in Warwick. The choice next month will be between Richard Corrente and the current mayor, Mayor Scott Avedisian. But the choice is more than that. It is choice as to what we want Warwick
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10/5/16
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Enjoy waterfront living in this charming Barrington colonial. Built in 1950, the home has been updated and is in move-in condition.
With three bedrooms and two fiull bathrooms, the light-filled …
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10/5/16
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PORTSMOUTH — An overnight standoff on Boyds Lane ended peacefully this morning with the arrest of a local man on firearms charges.
James Lawrence, of 561 Boyds Lane, was …
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Jim McGaw
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10/5/16
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Monday, Jan. 26
A barking dog complaint came in from Cutler Street.
An Orchard Avenue resident reported an abandoned bicycle.
Someone driving down Miller Street shouted racial profanities at …
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10/5/16
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Barrington school officials have ordered tests on the air quality inside the current middle school building.
The tests, which were conducted on Monday, Sept. 3 — there was no school because …
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By Josh Bickford
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10/5/16
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