Warwick Beacon
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Last week, the Warwick City Council officially leased the land to the state Department of Environment Management which will, in the near future, become the site of a revamped public pier off the jagged coast of Rocky Point. DEM will now
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/25/18
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By JOHN HOWELL While the audit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017 is yet to be finalized, indications are the city will end the year with a surplus of about $7 million. That would put the city reserves at about $25.4 million for the largest surplus
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By John Howell
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1/25/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Governor Gina Raimondo announced a new funding program to help streamline the permitting process for small businesses - as well as all other businesses and developers in the state - in addition to a new batch of available grants to fund
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/25/18
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Driving under the influence On Jan. 17 at approximately 8:44 p.m. Officer Ali Jaafar was driving through Hoxsie Four Corners when he saw a vehicle swerving between lanes on Warwick Avenue before making a left onto Airport Road. The Officer conducted a
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1/25/18
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The dome is still without a home, but that’s not for a lack of trying.
Even before the state’s only geodesic dome, or “Bucky Ball” so named for its inventor, Richard Buckminster …
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By John Howell
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1/25/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG Cranston police officer Jared Hardy came running into the office of Carlos Lopez, Chief of Staff for Mayor Allan Fung, looking to hit any moving target he saw with the weapon he was carrying. The weapon was a Nerf gun, so there wasn't
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/25/18
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Open letter to Mayor Avedisian: I am writing to ask you to leave the Republican Party. The abhorrent behavior of our president is only surpassed by the enabling Republicans in Congress and around the country. By all accounts, having lived in Warwick for
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1/24/18
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Viansa Portesi of Warwick was named the Distinguished Young Woman of Rhode Island and awarded $2,000 in cash scholarships during a statewide scholarship program for high school girls held Jan. 14.
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1/24/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Dave's Bar and Grill on Post Road in Warwick may not be your first choice to engage in meaningful political discourse - especially when the New England Patriots were playing in their 7th-consecutive AFC Championship game against the
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/23/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Tara Cirella, mother of Warwick teenager and Toll Gate High School soccer player Gianna Cirella, who passed away after a battle with sepsis on Nov. 1, has enlisted help to spread her new foundation's message of trying to prevent more
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/23/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Like the mythical Phoenix that rose from the ashes to fly, Edgewood Yacht Club has risen to stand again in the wake of a 2011 winter storm fire that left the Victorian-era building that had survived the worst of hurricanes a smoldering
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By John Howell
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1/23/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Members of the Warwick City Council, in advance of allocating a previously promised $3 million to the Warwick School Department last Wednesday, took the opportunity to criticize the department for what they considered to be bad business
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/23/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- The Warwick School Committee approved a revised balanced budget 4-1, with Karen Bachus dissenting, on Thursday, Jan. 18 after a contentious meeting with the Warwick City Council the previous day, where they ultimately received a $3
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/23/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Wearing a yellow-green florescent safety vest and a hard hat, Gary Boyle demanded site visitors stop. While the lot under the high-tension wires and next to a construction trailer office offered plenty of room for parking, Boyle insisted
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By John Howell
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1/23/18
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CAT EUTHANIZED On January 13 at approximately 3:23 p.m., Officer Richard Odell was driving north on Greenwich Avenue when he saw a cat get struck by a passing vehicle. According to his report, the officer observed a car driving south on Greenwich Avenue
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1/23/18
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By JOHN HOWELL -- Reached by phone Saturday, Joseph T. “Jay” Brennan, who retired abruptly Wednesday as principal of Bishop Hendricken High School, chose not to elaborate on a statement released …
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By John Howell
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1/23/18
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To the Editor: In the past two weeks there has been a lot of exciting news regarding Warwick's growing reputation as a great home for businesses. A January 11 Beacon article highlighted the rebirth of Rhode Island Mall. The space that has held far too
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1/23/18
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Raymond W. Gaudet, 90, left this life and our lives peacefully on Sunday, January 14, 2018 in Warwick, RI. His family was by his side when he passed.
The youngest of four children, he was born …
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1/22/18
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Sam Sisakhti knew five days into his first job in finance that the field wasn’t right for him. Freshly graduated from Brandeis University, and now without a clear vision of his future, he went to …
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/19/18
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Iced in Recent sub-zero conditions have made it tough to be outside and even tougher for those who make a living shellfishing. Mark Chearino grabbed this shot of conditions in Warwick Cove. According to Department of Environmental Management personnel, a
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1/19/18
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Jean (McDougall) Saunders, 83, of Warwick passed away peacefully on December 9,2017.
She is survived by her husband Henry Saunders, daughter Janet Singleton and her husband Ed …
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1/19/18
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Lisa Ann Armenti, 51, a resident of Warwick, died Friday, January 12, 2018 at Kent Hospital.
Born in Providence, she was a daughter of the late Matthew M. and Virginia L. (Tougas) Atmenti. Prior …
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1/19/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Governor Gina Raimondo delivered her second State of the State address from the Rhode Island State House on Tuesday evening, weaving through a long list of topics relevant to what she claimed to be signs of Rhode Island's continuing
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/18/18
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DUTY TO STOP On Jan. 3 at approximately 1:13 p.m. Officers Brian Murray and Joseph DeDonato responded to the area of Gilmore Furniture on Post Road for a hit and run accident. The victims of the accident gave the officers the plate numbers and DeDonato
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1/18/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Alfred Carpionato, who built a $1 billion empire of retail shopping centers, hotels, apartment complexes and restaurants, will be doing more of what he enjoys doing most - says the man who succeeds him as president and chief operating
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By John Howell
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1/18/18
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