Warwick Beacon
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The elementary school consolidation process continued to move forward at Thursday's second hearing. Emotions ran high as parents, teachers and students alike rallied to save the three schools slated for closure at the end of the current
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By Tessa Roy
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10/18/16
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By DAWN ANDERSON A close friendship, a love of music, and a desire to help others has inspired two Toll Gate High School students to collaborate on their senior projects. Jon Sundstrom and Zackary Whelan will be showcasing their musical talents at Toll
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By Dawn Anderson
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4/28/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- After more than two years of contract negotiations and tensions, the Warwick Teachers' Union has a tentative agreement in front of them for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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By Ethan Hartley
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11/16/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY The Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America (NCBSA) has been going through some unprecedented changes. In the midst of trying to stymie an historic decline in enrollment, and breaking news that they would be allowing girls into
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/8/18
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A group of citizens have made plans to thank Col. Stephen M. McCartney for the nearly 20 years he served at Warwick Police Chief at a reception in his honor and start a fund to benefit the department. The reception will be held Thursday, March 14 from
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/31/19
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Maybe it's only appropriate that a project that has been studied, debated and the cause of litigation for decades have a Dec. 7 - Pearl Harbor Day - deadline for completion. That's Dec. 7, 2017, the day a 1,524 extension to Runway 5 at
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/18/16
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Mayor Scott Avedisian along with Colonel Stephen M. McCartney and members of the Board of Public Safety presided over a police promotional ceremony on Tuesday in Council Chambers at Warwick City Hall to recognize the promotion of eight officers.
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4/28/17
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By JOHN HOWELL While Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur likes to be kept abreast of issues pertaining to his ward and the city, at least for the time being he won't be notified of every emergency run affecting his constituents. Ladouceur requested of Fire
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By John Howell
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2/8/18
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By PEDER S. SCHAEFER The bill that proposes to change the name of T.F. Green Airport to Rhode Island International Airport had liftoff Tuesday afternoon in the State House, after the House Committee on Corporations voted 7-2, with one abstention, to move
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By Peder S. Schaefer
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6/21/18
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By JOHN HOWELL When the City Council approved a resolution calling on the General Assembly to approve legislation giving the city $900,000 in payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) as the host city of Green Airport, the immediate reaction of the Rhode Island
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/31/19
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A Greenwood tradition The annual reenactment of Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday was held Sunday morning at the Greenwood Community Church Presbyterian on Main Avenue. Hannah" the donkey was a huge hit with the kids. The Rev. Doctor Stephen"
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4/13/17
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Not donning a pair of skates since childhood didn’t stop Cranston resident Anne Marie Horne from joining the high-intensity, contact sport of roller derby. “It was amazing!” she says, upon …
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By Dawn Anderson
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4/28/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY If a $40 million bond for school improvements passes successfully through the Rhode Island legislature and is then voted upon favorably by the residents of Warwick, it will result in the ability to bring all 12 necessary fire alarm
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/8/18
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DUI On June 12 at approximately 9:14 p.m. Officer Derek Mourato was on his post on Warwick Avenue, near Shaw's, when he saw a car speeding down the road without its headlights on and swerving through lanes cutting off other cars. He followed the vehicle
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6/21/18
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The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (Gamm) will present its first performance to a live audience from their new space at 1245 Jefferson Blvd. in Warwick on Monday, Oct. 8. However, this show will be …
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By Ethan Hartley
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10/4/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY The relationship between the Warwick School Department and the City Council has seen better days, and school department officials are now concerned about being able to fund needed capital projects for the next two summers within a
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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1/31/19
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There's no going back. The die was cast at least a decade ago, when after public hearings where roundabouts were touted as the wave of the future, they were adopted as the solution to Apponaug traffic. It all made perfect sense. Instead of coming to a
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10/28/16
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SHOPLIFTING On November 7 around 8 p.m., Officers Eric Lima and Walter Larson were dispatched to the Bald Hill Road Walmart for a report of three women shoplifting. Upon arriving on scene, the officers observed three women exiting the store who
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11/22/16
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By JOHN HOWELL Former Mayor Scott Avedisian had a goal going into Tuesday's reception, and he was pleased to report to the more than 150 people in attendance that they had made it happen. Avedisian reported that more than $25,000 was raised in
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By John Howell
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6/21/18
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“It’s great to have a big heart but it’s no good without a big brain.”
Marc Perlman, president of Ocean State Job Lot, wasn’t bragging Wednesday morning. Rather, he was speaking of all …
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By John HOwell
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10/4/18
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For Debbie Thornton Sunday, Nov. 13 was the “most devastating day” of her life. Yet, in another way it was the best day and, in a respect she never dreamed possible, it has renewed her faith in …
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By John Howell
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11/22/16
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George T. Christianson, 87, of Warwick died Saturday, May 13, 2017 at the Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center in Providence. He was the beloved husband of Barbara L. (Brennan) Christianson.
Born in …
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5/17/17
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Celebrating 95 years One of the Daughters of Isabella, Anna Conley, celebrated her 95th birthday with some of her DOI sisters on July 27 at Ethan Place. Pictured are (first row, l-r) Peggy Porter, regent, Anna Conley, Anne Angilly, past regent, (back
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9/4/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Today the hallways of John Brown Francis Elementary will echo with a somber silence not heard since the building was constructed in the early 1950s. There will still be people packing boxes and moving furniture and the sounds normally
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By Ethan Hartley
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6/21/18
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For students that were able to enroll in the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) due to the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship program – which provides free tuition to full time students …
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By Ethan Hartley
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10/4/18
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