Warwick Beacon
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE At 9:09 p.m. on March 4, Officer Richard Odell was on routine patrol traveling in the rotary at the intersection of Toll Gate Road and Centerville Road. There he witnessed a Nissan Altima approach the rotary from Veterans
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3/13/18
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Text and photos By JOHN HOWELL Veterans Memorial Junior High School Principal David Tober was dunked at least 10 times Monday morning. He didn't mind it. In fact, he said it was refreshing. No wonder. With temperatures climbing into the high 80s, a
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By John Howell
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6/19/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Leigh Brown and Victoria Corliss aren't related, but they've become such good friends and symbiotic business partners that they might as well be.
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/28/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Municipalities looking for some guidance on how to responsibly implement solar arrays at a time when such projects are booming will receive some help in the coming weeks from the state Office of Energy Resources, which is set to release
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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1/29/19
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John Howell had owned the Warwick Beacon for less than a decade as the snow began to fall in early February 1978.
At the time, the paper, which is now published twice weekly, was still printing a …
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By DANIEL KITTREDGE
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1/9/20
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The Warwick Police Department is asking for the community's assistance identifying a suspect after the Bank of America branch on West Shore Road was robbed.
According to Lieutenant Snow, around 3 …
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By Tim Forsberg
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9/30/16
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Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur, left, who faced Republican candidate Danny Hall in the 2012 election, endorsed his former opponent as a candidate for the School Committee this week. Ladouceur said he talked with Hall and he has the"
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10/5/16
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Schools could be closed today. That was the warning issued yesterday afternoon to parents on the Connect-Ed system by Superintendent Philip Thornton in response to reports that the Warwick Teachers Union had planned a sick-out." Warwick"
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By John Howell
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10/28/16
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By TESSA ROY Bishop Hendricken's Drama Program is preparing to perform its take on the classic musical Bye Bye Birdie. The late '50s/early '60s era show follows Conrad Birdie, an Elvis-style rock and roll star who has been enlisted to the Army. His
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By Tessa Roy
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12/3/16
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By JOHN HOWELL Five people were honored Tuesday night for their lifesaving actions on March 5 when a man entered the Rite Aid at 1201 Warwick Ave. and attacked an 18-year-old Pilgrim High School senior and store employee, who was stocking a cooler, with
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By John Howell
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4/27/17
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The rain held off.for a while The long range forecast wasn't that good, but then the Gaspee Days Arts and Crafts Festival was blessed with descent weather - although some more sun would have been welcome - Saturday and Sunday. Monday wasn't as forgiving.
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6/1/17
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By JOHN HOWELL -- Warwick is getting another roundabout, but this one, unlike those in Apponaug, isn't on a state highway nor does it replace a signaled intersection. Rather, this roundabout is on the Knight Campus of CCRI.
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By John Howell
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8/3/17
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The Children's Democracy Project transformed a 747 into a museum piece - dubbed the Air Force One Project - which will allow up to 50 people at a time to get a unique look at how the president travels around the world.
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By Ethan Hartley
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9/20/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY The following is the first part of a series on the opioid addiction epidemic, highlighting an 18-year-old Warwick resident who overdosed on fentanyl in February. Sherri Flaherty didn't know when it would happen or how she knew, but her
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By Ethan Hartley
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10/10/17
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By JOHN HOWELL -- Saying his message to cut taxes resonated with the voters - although when the polls closed in 2016 he wasn't the winner - Richard Corrente announced Saturday he is running as a Democrat for mayor again.
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By John Howell
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12/5/17
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Virginia “Ginny” E. (Vidler) Slack, 63, passed away Sunday, February 4, 2018 at the Kent Hospital. She was the wife of the late Wallace A. Slack for 26 years.
Born in Warwick, she was …
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2/7/18
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By JOHN HOWELL It's going to be some time, but Kent County Water Authority customers won't be faced with the stains left by manganese in years to come. That should be good news to Michael Hackett of Love Lane and other Cowesett residents who have done
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By John Howell
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3/13/18
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE On June 2 at approximately 4:16 p.m. Officer Thomas Greene was dispatched to a motor vehicle accident with injuries reported. When he arrived on scene, he observed a Toyota Tacoma blocking the two westbound lanes on Main
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6/19/18
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By JOHN HOWELL What could be more American than a curtain rod made in Warwick at Kenney Manufacturing? That was just the point Walmart made at an event Wednesday that briefly silenced Kenney operations as Kenney president and CEO Leslie Kenney,
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/29/19
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U.S. Sen. Jack Reed flies frequently, and he knows T.F. Green International Airport well.
“I travel to lots of airports,” he told members of the media outside the airport’s …
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By DANIEL KITTREDGE
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1/16/20
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PEPPER SPRAYED SUSPECT Warwick officers recently found a shirtless robbery suspect writhing and yelling on the ground in pain after residents fought with, pepper spayed, and detained him. On September 18 at approximately 12:50 a.m., Officer
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9/30/16
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Father Robert Marciano is a quick-change artist. Saturday he was attired in church vestments as he officiated the 5 p.m. Mass at St. Kevin. Then in barely minutes he was wearing the Air Force blue uniform, for Father Marciano is a pastor
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By John Howell
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10/5/16
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Division I: The Big Two Division I's best public schools this year are South Kingstown, Portsmouth, Cranston East and Central. The Rebels (5-1) and Patriots (3-2) played one of the league's few all-timers this season, which saw SK storm back to score 21
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By Jacob Marrocco
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10/28/16
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By SOPHIE HAGEN Half an hour after their orientation was due to begin, this year's freshman class of Rhode Island legislators left the tables set with coffee and pastries in the House Lounge and filed into the chamber. With 12 new state representatives
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By Sophie Hagen
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12/3/16
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By TESSA ROY Warwick EMS Coordinator Jason Umbenhauer said in the past 11 months, Warwick EMS has used Narcan to treat drug overdoses 199 times, an average of about 18 times per month. The highest number of uses was in June of last year, where the
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By Tessa Roy
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4/27/17
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