Warwick Beacon
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By JOHN HOWELL Turn back the clock to April of this year and the race for mayor looked like it would be a tumultuous ride. Mayor Scott Avedisian's surprised everyone with his decision to leave the post after 18 years to accept the top job at the Rhode
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/1/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY School committee candidates gathered at the Pilgrim Political Involvement Club on Tuesday afternoon for their final public forum prior to Tuesday's election, reiterating points during last week's Beacon forum but also bringing in some
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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11/1/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Three questions will appear on this year's ballot statewide - all of which are related to approving the state government to seek bonds for various endeavors. Warwick voters will see one additional question for their community
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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11/1/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Thanks to the generous donation of Tom Furey and Furey Roofing, the first step to the reopening the Buttonwoods Community Center was taken yesterday morning. Former Mayor Scott Avedisian closed the center in early 2017, saying the
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/1/18
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE On Oct. 18 at approximately 1:20 a.m. Officer Randy Bell was on patrol on Post Rd. in the area of Haverford Rd. when he pulled over a car for speeding. As he made contact with the driver, identified as Victor Ramos, 44, of 28
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10/30/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Why?" That's all Beth Veltri could say as she entered Meritage Restaurant Sunday to a room of cheering people. They knew the answer to Veltri's question. She was the reason they had gone to lengths to surprise her. It is Veltri who has"
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/30/18
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By JOHN HOWELL So, you haven't got anything special planned other than voting on Nov. 6. If that's the case, Patty Aylesworth, Warwick director of elections, could use your help. Aylesworth needs to fill more than 250 positions - supervisors, greeters,
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/30/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Former mayor Scott Avedisian, who has been politically silent since assuming the role of president and CEO of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) this spring, made an appearance at Shalom apartments Friday as Republican
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/30/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Warwick's once little hometown credit union is poised to get a lot bigger, as on Friday Greenwood Credit Union celebrated a groundbreaking on a plat that will become the site of a 20,000-square-foot operations center. City and state
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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10/30/18
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Warwick resident Lieutenant Ashley Flynn, NC, USN has spent almost a decade traveling the globe saving lives as a nurse in the United States Navy.
“However long I’m here, I want to have a …
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By TABITHA PEREIRA
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10/29/18
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE On Oct. 21 at approximately 6:41 p.m. Officer Brian Holleran responded to a car accident on Greenwich Avenue, in the area of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The driver of the car that got hit said he was driving on East Ave. in
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10/25/18
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By JOHN HOWELL With Greenwood School as a backdrop and joined by the president of the Warwick Council PTA and superintendent of schools, Mayor Joseph Solomon urged Tuesday passage of the city $40 million school bond on the Nov. 6 ballot. It is our"
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/25/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Abbey is a short street in Ward 1, a walk of less than 10 minutes from end to end, but after an hour Saturday afternoon Ward 1 Councilman Richard Corley hadn't even knocked on the doors of all the even numbered homes. It's not that he met
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/25/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Candidates running for three open seats on the Warwick School Committee gathered inside Studio 107 at Pilgrim High School Tuesday evening for a question-answer forum that covered everything from the role of a school committee in public
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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10/25/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY The Pilgrim Political Involvement Club got the kind of political experience you're only likely to get in Rhode Island - as they got to fire off questions face-to-face with junior U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who stopped by the club
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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10/25/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur has earned a reputation as a numbers man. On Wednesday he employed that same attention he applies to city claims and the award of contracts and bids to data he was provided by Rhode Island Kids Count. But
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/25/18
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Prelude to Halloween Fill a sand box with paper confetti, add some hidden treats and the expectation is that kids would have a blast. That's just what happened Friday at the Kent County YMCA although with the paper looking like snow the treasure hunt
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10/25/18
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Saint David’s on-the-Hill Episcopal Church recently welcomed Warwick author and retired Providence Rescue worker, Michael Morse, to their book club’s annual author night.
The club invites an …
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By JEN COWART
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10/25/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Thankfully, it doesn't need to be hot for sunshine to produce green electricity through solar panels. All you need is some direct sunlight, and what Monday morning lacked in the way of warmth it certainly made up for in a cloudless,
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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10/23/18
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By JOHN HOWELL The truck is parked outside J. Palmieri's Pizzeria & Pub on Plainfield Pike. The engine is running but no one is inside. Not for long. Mark DePasquale is on the move. He's grabbed some lunch to go and now he's got 45 minutes before a
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/23/18
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE On October 12 at approximately 5:25 p.m., Officers Christopher Gillis and Brian Fontaine were dispatched to Dudley Avenue for a report of a car that had struck a basketball hoop with the driver of the vehicle slumped over the
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10/23/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Here's something to cheer about: Whereas more than 360 members of the Rhode Island National Guard were on deployment last Christmas, fewer than 10 will be away from home this year, according to Major General Christopher Callahan. Yet on
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/23/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Allegations surrounding purported abuse of the sick time payout system utilized by Warwick firefighters that has allegedly amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars in overpayments in recent years has once again come to a boil this
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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10/23/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Only two weeks remain in the campaign for mayor of Warwick, with Republican Sue Stenhouse challenging Mayor Joseph Solomon, who assumed the office in May following the departure of 18-year mayor Scott Avedisian. At a debate organized by
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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10/23/18
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Reading and writing An impromptu visit to St. Rose of Lima School where a reporter/photographer was welcomed into the classroom found first graders engaged in an accelerator reading program and fourth graders working on personal narrative writing. As it
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10/23/18
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