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By ARDEN BASTIA March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a rallying point for the colon cancer community where thousands of patients, survivors, caregivers and advocates throughout the country join together to spread awareness. For Dr. Melissa Murphy,
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By ARDEN BASTIA
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3/18/21
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By JOHN HOWELL Four thousand property owners got a reminder in the mail over the past couple of weeks that they hadn't paid their taxes. The number of delinquent taxpayers is not considered extraordinary, but the fact that they got a letter outlining the
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By John Howell
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12/2/16
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By JOHN HOWELL -- It was built as a high school, transitioned into a junior high school and then closed when Warwick secondary schools were consolidated a year ago. Now, Aldrich could reopen as a school.
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By John Howell
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7/20/17
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Richard E. Johnson, 70, of Duncan, OK, passed away peacefully and surrounded by his loving family on Thursday, August 3, 2017 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City.
Richard was born on March 28, …
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8/18/17
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WSBE Rhode Island PBS has announced key dates for High School Quiz Show: Rhode Island, its team-based single-elimination competition among qualifying high school students. Team registration by school principals or academic coaches opened Monday, August
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9/1/17
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By JOHN HOWELL What two mothers started as a drive to save their neighborhood school from closing this academic year has evolved into a campaign to shelve the larger elementary school consolidation plan because of conflicting data and state efforts
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By John Howell
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11/14/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY For the second time the Warwick City Council refrained from making a decision on a proposed initiative to purchase its more than 9,000 streetlights from National Grid in order to potentially save over a half million dollars in the short
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By Ethan Hartley
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3/8/18
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Peace and Providence Community Outreach Center on Warwick Avenue has been a busy place since opening last month.
“I’ve been very happy. There’s been a lot of positive feedback …
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By Kellsie King
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9/11/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY You never know what you'll find on a supply run in post-apocalyptic America. Maybe some dishware, knick-knacks, maybe some food if you're lucky. In the case of Warwick native Nathan Quattrini, what he found was over 1,000 pounds of
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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1/17/19
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Thrive Behavioral Health has been awarded a $94,229 grant by the Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corporation (RIHEBC). The funding is being distributed to nonprofit health, …
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3/18/21
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SLEEPING IN THE GRASS On June 30 at approximately 6:38 p.m., Officers Christopher Gillis and John Zaborski were dispatched to the Norwood Baptist Church on Budlong Avenue to check on the condition of a man who was lying on the grass. At the scene the
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7/6/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Adventure seekers and those missing out-of-state family members have six new reasons to rejoice, as Frontier Airlines announced Tuesday they would be expanding their low-fare services to six more cities out of T.F. Green Airport this fall and next spring.
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By Ethan Hartley
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7/20/17
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He's got the key now Warwick School Superintendent Philip Thornton turned over the keys to the former school administration building and former Hoxsie School built in 1926 to Mayor Scott Avedisian yesterday afternoon. School administration offices have
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8/18/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Discussions about how to keep schools safer amidst an environment of increasing anxiety over gun violence within the United States stretched from a small gathering of students, administrators and police officers at Pilgrim High School on
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By Ethan Hartley
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3/8/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY In their last meeting of their inaugural year, the Pilgrim Political Involvement Club welcomed Mayor Joseph Solomon on Tuesday afternoon into the classroom to talk about all things Warwick - including his hopes to be elected to a full
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By Ethan Hartley
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6/7/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Monday will mark a significant next chapter in the ongoing budgetary crisis being experienced by the Warwick School Department, as they will present to the City Council findings of their programmatic audit finalized in August that
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/13/18
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Cindy Joaquin and Tamarra Jeffreys met each other more than seven years ago. They didn’t hit it off right away.
“At our first meeting she was very shy and wouldn’t even look at me,” …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/17/19
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Centreville Bank Charitable Foundation has awarded $177,500 to 11 organizations in Rhode Island, Harold M. Horvat, bank President, CEO and Chairman announced recently
“Though we are …
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3/18/21
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Paul R. Pearson, 73, of Enfield, beloved husband of Susan (Rollins) Pearson passed away peacefully on Friday, December 9, 2016, at home.
He was born on February 23, 1943, in Providence, Rhode …
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12/19/16
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By JOHN HOWELL Sally Gravino dressed for the occasion. In fact, she was better dressed than everyone else who showed up at Iggy's Boardwalk at 9 a.m. on July 4. Most of those in attendance were wearing shorts, short-sleeve shirts and sandals. There was
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By John Howell
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7/6/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Major construction work to modernize various features at Warwick Veterans Junior High School are underway and ahead of schedule, and should be complete by December 2017.
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By Ethan Hartley
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7/20/17
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By JOHN HOWELL Time doesn't stand still, but it looks like the State Senate will turn back the clock to the closing hours of the session on June 30 this Thursday and pass the House version of the $9.2 billion budget that has delayed the issuance of car
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By John Howell
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8/2/17
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Esther (Sebulsky) DiChristofaro, a resident of Warwick, died Sept. 13, 2017 at home. She was the wife of the late Roland DiChristofaro and the late Irving A. Barber.
Born in Providence Esther was …
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9/18/17
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Rocky Point vandalized Last weekend, vandals again struck Rocky Point Park, tagging structures and signs with significant spray paint graffiti for the second time in the last month. According to Gail Mastrati, Assistant to the Director at the Department
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10/26/17
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Completes basic U.S. Air Force National Guard Airman 1st Class Kyle D. Santos graduated recent;y from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included
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12/3/17
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