Warwick Beacon
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- School administration and the Warwick Police are investigating a reported instance of a student possessing and possibly “randomly distributing” fentanyl to other students while in a boys’ bathroom at Toll Gate High School last Friday, Sept. 22.
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/29/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY The Warwick Teachers' Union gathered again outside of Warwick City Hall to picket in protest of their lack of a new contract. This is the second such demonstration this month, and this time they also drew the support of the Local 251
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/29/17
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Mayor Scott Avedisian couldn’t say no. Now he doesn’t know what to expect, other than that he’s going to feel the heat.
This is heat like in roasting.
In a rare event, as Avedisian had …
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By John Howell
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9/28/17
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By JOHN HOWELL Rosemarie A. Desnoyers, RN, has been president of the United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5008 ever since 2008 when the nurses and nursing assistants organized. She has been on many picket lines on Toll Gate Road in front of the
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By John Howell
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9/28/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY It may not be fun to accept it, but summer is gone and flu season is right around the corner. Pockets of coughers and sneezers can already be heard at any semi-large public gathering, and soon these seasonal sniffles can become serious,
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/28/17
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By JOHN HOWELL In August of 1999 when he accepted the job as city finance director, Ernest Zmyslinski imagined that he would stay at most no more than two years. Now, 18 years later, making him arguably the city's longest serving finance director, he is
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By John Howell
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9/28/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY After decades of providing a meeting place for community and advocacy groups, the J.O.N.A.H. (Join Our Neighborhood and Help) Center, located at 830 Oakland Beach Ave., has been locked up and is closing its doors for good. It's really"
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/28/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY The Warwick Sewer Authority presented the draft version of their amended rules and regulations for sewer use within the city to a small gathering at City Hall Monday night. The most important changes to note in the 90-page draft document
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/28/17
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE On Sept. 9 at approximately 2:26 a.m., Officer William Holz was conducting a traffic stop on Centerville Road adjacent to the TGI Fridays. While speaking with the operator, he looked over his left shoulder and reportedly
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9/28/17
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By THOMAS GREENBERG As YMCA members filtered into the Kent County branch Wednesday morning, one in every 4 or 5 drivers pulling in was there to make donations to the bins set up in the parking lot. The YMCA has partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of
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By Thomas Greenberg
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9/28/17
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Joan M. (Warren) Butler, 81, of Warwick, passed away on Thursday, September 21, 2017 at the Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center, surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife of the late Robert A. …
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9/28/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Two traffic accidents involving pedestrians occurred over the weekend, one claiming the life of an 18-year-old Warwick resident and the other sending a father to the hospital.
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/28/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Members of the Rhode Island State Police and local law enforcement from Westerly to Woonsocket, as well as state chapters of national advocacy groups, gathered at the Cranston Country Club Friday morning to honor local officials for
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/27/17
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Caps for Jose While summer's recent return surely made these caps out of place, they were welcome last week during Tropical Storm Jose's visit to the Ocean State. Pictured outside police headquarters are Joann Fox and her 8-month-old Jack King, son of
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9/27/17
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The release of the long-awaited Jacobs Report, an independent third party study of the condition of every school district in Rhode Island sanctioned by the Department of Education, confirmed what everyone already knew - the state's schools are in sorry
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9/26/17
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By JOHN HOWELL Packing light could pay off big for Warwick. That probably wasn't what Mayor Scott Avedisian had in mind when he boarded a flight last week as a member of a trade mission to Ireland. Avedisian got an introduction to the country like few
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By John Howell
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9/26/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY School administrators are hopeful that securing an $85 million bond to address some of the district's most glaring needs is more likely now that the statewide report by Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been released, providing a third
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/26/17
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By THOMAS GREENBERG Warwick Veterans Junior High School had a somewhat tumultuous first year, as 7th and 8th graders from all around the city convened at the former high school. The students, adjusting to a much larger school, both in number of students
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By Thomas Greenberg
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9/26/17
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STRING OF LARCENIES According to police reports, on Sept. 8 there was a series of larcenies that took place in the Jefferson Boulevard and Post Road area. Around 5:24 a.m., Officer Steven Moretti was dispatched the La Quinta Inn on Jefferson Boulevard
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9/26/17
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By JOHN HOWELL One of the few remaining privately held large open tracts in Cowesett, the 94-acre Little Rhody Beagle Club, could be spared from major development with 20 acres preserved as open space and portions of the remaining acreage becoming a
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By John Howell
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9/26/17
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By RYAN CHAMPLIN John Wickes Elementary School in Warwick is home to about 350 students, from kindergarten to sixth grade. Katie McAuslin of Warwick went to Wickes for elementary. Now 26, she works at the school as a lunch aide. That would surprise some
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By Ryan Champlin
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9/26/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Three Warwick policemen were honored by the RI chapter of MADD for their efforts in preventing impaired driving tragedies.
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by ETHAN HARTLEY
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9/26/17
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Theatre Review By DON FOWLER Oh, no! Not another production of Oscar Wilde's silly, wordy Trivial Comedy for Serious People!" I'd seen too many college and community productions of the English comedy of manners to sit through the long play. But wait!"
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By Don Fowler
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9/24/17
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Gerald E. Walsh, 73, a resident of Easton for the past 40 years, died Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton after a period of failing health. He was the former …
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9/24/17
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Preparations for today, reminders from the past Today is the anniversary of the Great Storm of 1938 that roared through Rhode Island killing 628 people and destroying 37,000 homes. The storm wiped out homes and businesses that stretched nearly to the
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9/23/17
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