Warwick Beacon
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By ANESSA PETTERUTI Carmel Vitullo was always interested in captivating the commonplace. And in the 1960s, she did just that. Vitullo, who grew up in a small Italian community on Federal Hill, studied painting and photography at the Rhode Island School
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By Anessa Petteruti
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6/1/17
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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.
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By John Howell
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8/3/17
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Rita F. Higgins, 71, of Warwick died Friday, September 15, 2017 at home. She was the beloved wife of Edward L. Higgins.
Born in Fall River, MA, she was a daughter of the late Michael and Palmeida …
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9/20/17
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SUSPENDED LICENSES On September 22 at approximately 12:12 p.m., Officer Matthew Higgins was on a Click It or Ticket detail in the area of Bald Hill Road and East Avenue. There he observed a driver not wearing his seat belt, and initiated a traffic stop.
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10/10/17
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By SOPHIA MAYNARD For the eighth consecutive year, Bishop Hendricken High School is the state Academic Decathlon champion. The team, which won its division in the nationals last year, will now go on to compete in the United States Academic Decathlon next
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By Sophia Maynard
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3/13/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Richard Crenca brought a cigar to work last Tuesday. That's not something he usually does, but the director of public works had a meeting with the mayor and he had made up his mind - after 32 years of public service it was time to retire.
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By John Howell
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6/19/18
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By JOHN HOWELL In a military ceremony preceded by a Mass he will officiate, Father Robert Marciano will retire from the Rhode Island Air National Guard on Oct. 1 after serving 36 years in the military. Marciano holds the rank of colonel and serves as
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By John Howell
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9/30/16
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The final resting place of a family that helped found Warwick got a little help from a community that deeply cares about the city's history. Historical Cemetery 107, where many members of the Holden family were laid to rest, was in rough
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By Tessa Roy
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10/5/16
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James C. Whitehead, 78, of Warwick died Sunday at the Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center in Providence. He was the beloved husband of Priscilla A. (Amend) Whitehead for fifty-six years.
Born in …
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10/28/16
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SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN STOLEN WHEELS CASES Since March of 2017, the Warwick Police Department has received 18 separate incidents of tire and rim thefts. On May 22 at 8:20 p.m., Warwick Police officers along with detectives were conducting surveillance in
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6/1/17
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By JACQUELYN MOOREHEAD -- For the Scuncio family, a relaxing morning walk turned into a nightmare on July 18. Robert, 64, went into cardiac arrest at 8:30 a.m.
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By Jacquelyn Moorehead
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8/3/17
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Eugene F. Murray, 88, of Warwick died Thursday at the Avalon Nursing Home. He was the beloved husband of the late Mary (Kelly) Murray for 49 years.
Born in Sommerville, MA, he was the son of the …
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9/3/17
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Consumers are being advised to not consume meats and cheeses purchased from the Stop & Shop deli located at 300 Quaker Lane between the dates of Jan. 18 and Feb. 2 following a possible exposure to Listeria monocytogene bacteria, which
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/7/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Norwood residents are ready to do battle, but they'll probably be shoveling some snow first. With the forecast for near-blizzard conditions starting early Tuesday, the Zoning Board of Review postponed until April 10 the appeal to build a
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By John Howell
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3/13/18
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By JOHN HOWELL While $5 million is a lot of money, it is hardly more than a few drops in the bucket when it comes to addressing all of the city's road problems. As part of the upcoming budget the City Council, setting the condition of city roads as a
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By John Howell
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6/19/18
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Low-fare carrier Frontier Airlines announced Wednesday three new nonstop routes from T.F. Green Airport (PVD) to Atlanta, Myrtle Beach and Philadelphia beginning this summer. To celebrate the new …
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4/8/21
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GOTTA CATCH `EM ALL A driver playing Pok mon Go around Oakland Beach caught more than a Pikachu when he told officers he had vodka mixed drinks and I smoked a roach and it got my head all messed up" after being stopped for driving erratically."
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10/5/16
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To the Editor: The School Committee's newest member, David Testa, stated in a letter to the editor, that my comments about the School Committee are a Theater of Absurd." He claims that my letter of 2/23/17 shows that "He evidently has no understanding"
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4/12/17
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By JOHN HOWELL Even before commencing operations at Green Airport, Norwegian Airlines announced yesterday that it's expanding service with nonstop twice-weekly flights to the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique starting Oct. 29 and Oct.
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By John Howell
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6/1/17
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At Mayor Scott Avedisian's invitation, tomorrow morning at 10:30 the state's congressional delegation, along with city elected officials, will gather at the Rocky Point Park arch to commemorate another development on the property. There have been other
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7/22/17
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Raymond E. Lamphere Jr., 74, died Wednesday, December 20, 2017.
A resident of Warwick for most of his life, he was a son of the late Raymond E. and Eileen (Moulton) Lamphere. He was employed as …
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12/25/17
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Michael Muller, PharmD, BCPPS, a clinical pharmacist specialist in neonatology at Women & Infants Hospital was recently recognized as the Health System Pharmacist of the Year by the Rhode Island Society of Health System Pharmacists. This is the society's
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2/8/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY An ordinance that would require the city's administration to alert the Warwick City Council about the firing or hiring of all city department heads within 24 hours that was unanimously passed by the council was, in turn, vetoed by Mayor
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By Ethan Hartley
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3/13/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Duncan Robertson can tell you a lot in a half hour. Like most 6-year-olds, he has an active enthusiasm for most things he speaks about and has an unquenchable thirst for learning that even his dad Ben, a math teacher at Smithfield High
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By Ethan Hartley
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6/19/18
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It's been a crazy summer - weather wise, that is - for farmers as John Pete" Morris of Morris Farms knows only too well. The first part of the summer was hot and dry and now there is one deluge after another. Morris says the unpredictability of the"
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10/2/18
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