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By THOMAS GREENBERG Courtney Jusino wasn't diagnosed with cancer until she was 28, 12 years after she first started working at a tanning salon in high school and would go into a tanning booth three or four times a week. She blames those frequent trips
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/31/18
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By JEN COWART The 2018 Smite World Champion gamer is a 17 year-old high school senior from Cranston. Brandon Casale is a student at Cranston High School West and is a third year student in the Cranston Area Career and Technical Center's (CACTC)
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By Jen Cowart
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1/31/18
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CYBERSTALKING On Jan. 24 at 7:20 a.m. Officer Comella arrested Jacqueline Blakney, 48, of 96 Hadley Ave. in Johnston for cyberstalking and cyberharassment prohibited. Her arrest was the result of the suspect turning herself into Cranston Police
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1/31/18
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By JEN COWART Earlier this month, a water main break and subsequent flood caused the school community at Edgewood Highland Elementary School to have to pull together and work through the emotional process of dealing with the total loss of school
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By Jen Cowart
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1/31/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG After six years apart, the Cranston Ravens and CLCF Bombers are banding together to form a new recreational and travel softball program that will be run through CLCF (Cranston's League for Cranston's Future). Alison Izzi, who branched
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/31/18
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By JEN COWART With an acceptance to Brown University under his belt, continued recovery from a serious injury sustained during a game, and being named Gatorade's 2018 Player of the Year, Cranston West's Will Such has had quite the senior year, and quite
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By Jen Cowart
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1/31/18
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Superintendent Jeannine Nota-Masse is asking for an increase of $1,344,815, or approximately 1.4 percent, in next year’s school budget.
“Each year moderate increases must be made. Some of …
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By Pam Schiff
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1/31/18
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By PAM SCHIFF Proper etiquette and manners dictate that if someone gives you a gift or goes out of their way in kindness, you respond with a thank you. The problem with this particular incident for Kris Jeffers, his daughter Ashley Jeffers, and Ashley's
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By Pam Schiff
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1/31/18
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New dentist in town Mayor Allan Fung officially welcomed Michelle Bento Mosca, D.M.D. to Cranston. She is an endodontics specialist and is located at 10 Crossway Roa This is her third location and she has been in business since 2003. She began her
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1/31/18
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The titanic Boeing wide bodied 767 roared to life. Its turbines started to make faster revolutions until the whirlpool decal on the front of the engines became a blur and the roar of a hundred or so rabid fans standing in the cold behind the airport
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1/31/18
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Robert “Bob” W. Weeden Sr., 64, formerly of Warwick, RI, passed away on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 in Gilford, New Hampshire. He is survived by his loving wife of 12 years, Suzanne Lewis.
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1/31/18
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Mayor Scott Avedisian will join Fire Chief James McLaughlin, the Board of Public Safety and members of the Warwick Fire Department to celebrate the promotion of nine firefighters on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza, 801 Greenwich Avenue, Warwick.
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1/31/18
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Cookie dance Take a gray day, add some music and promote what everyone likes - Girl Scout cookies - and you're certain to draw attention. That was the scene Sunday at Girl Scout offices on Route 5 as Troop 14 of West Warwick sought to move all that much
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1/31/18
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Vera E. Steiner, 89, of Warwick died Thursday, January 25, 2018 at Rhode Island Hospital. She was the beloved wife of the late George Steiner, Jr.
Born in Providence, she was a daughter of the …
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1/30/18
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By JOHN HOWELL -- With the announcement last week that Care New England is a step closer to becoming a part of Partners HealthCare of Boston, CNE prepared a list of "talking points"...
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By John Howell
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1/30/18
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Ice free, but hardly warm Goddard Park beach was an entirely different Sunday than from New Year's Day, the scheduled date of the 2018 Frozen Clam Dip and Obstaplunge sponsored by Laid-back Fitness to benefit Mentor Rhode Island. On the first day of the
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1/30/18
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By JOHN HOWELL -- Former Ward 7 Councilman Charles Donovan Jr. wanted to know where Mattiello stood on changing the name of Theodore Francis Green Airport.
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By John Howell
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1/30/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- A report from a student describing a man in black with a holstered gun caused a short stir and a lockdown until an investigation revealed it was an armored car employee.
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/30/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Is the use of binding arbitration, which can be used as a measure to settle particularly difficult municipal negotiations, a broken process in Rhode Island?
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/30/18
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Staying fit and up to date Kent County YMCA was buzzing with activity Saturday as members engaged in activities from youth basketball instruction and games to swimming and exercising on newly installed equipment. But they weren't alone. Like Ys across
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1/30/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Janine Burke-Wells knows how to get a room filled with wastewater treatment operators and officials to cheer. All it took was five words. Burke-Wells, the executive director of the Warwick Sewer Authority, assumed the presidency of the New
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By John Howell
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1/30/18
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FATAL CRASH Colonel Ann C. Assumpico, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Director of the Rhode Island Department of Public Safety, stated in a press release that two people died and two others were injured after their vehicle went off
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1/30/18
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A recognition of the arts and its role in promoting non-violence More than 300 people gathered Friday evening at the Shriners in Cranston for the third annual Inspiration of Love Youth Artists and Leadership Awards sponsored by the Natasha Love
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1/30/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG After a bit of a snag regarding funding for a dog park on Beachmont Street off of Park Avenue, the city council has thrown the recreation department a bone and officially green-lighted a resolution to allow the dog park to be built.
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/30/18
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PORTSMOUTH — J. Mark Ryan didn’t heed his own doctorly advice.
Last year, the Town Council member felt pretty confident while competing in the Project Purple Dodgeball Tournament …
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By Jim McGaw
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1/29/18
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