Warwick Beacon
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By JOHN HOWELL Main Avenue residents are getting their mail delivered once again now that the temperatures have climbed out of the single digits and, most importantly, the snow has melted. That's good news for Sue Rezendes, although it offers little
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By John Howell
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1/18/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Republican politicians didn't sit idly by on Tuesday while Democratic Governor Gina Raimondo delivered her State of the State address. Prior to Raimondo's speech, House of Representatives minority leader Patricia Morgan and a Republican
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/18/18
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Warwick resident and World War II combat veteran Willard D. “Bud” Voigt was presented with several prestigious awards at the Rhode Island National Guard Command and Readiness Center on Friday, …
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By Koby Gartner
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1/18/18
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To the Editor: The budget for the City of Warwick is about $300,000,000. More than half of that goes to the School Committee. Now, let's be clear. It doesn't go to the schools. It doesn't go to education." It doesn't go to the "students" and it"
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1/17/18
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Thomas J. Allin, III, 62, passed away Monday, January 8, 2018. He was the beloved husband of Tina M. (Thornton) Allin.
He was a son of Frances (Iannetta) and the late Thomas J. Allin, Jr. He was …
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1/16/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- The house could not withstand the fireball which engulfed it on Monday morning, which Warwick fire officials are officially investigating as an arson.
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/16/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Superintendent Philip Thornton revealed last week a list of potential line items on the chopping block in order to free up money to pay retroactive pay raises for the teachers.
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/16/18
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FOLLOWING HIS “UPS”On January 1 at approximately 3:25 a.m. Warwick Police were notified of a silver vehicle possibly traveling the wrong way on Bald Hill Road. Shortly thereafter, …
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1/16/18
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By JOHN HOWELL It was the new - if a heating system installed in the early 1990s is new - that failed during the recent cold snap, bursting a sprinkler pipe and closing Toll Gate High School on Jan. 8. And, ironically, it was the failure of that new""
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By John Howell
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1/16/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG -- Keep smiling in the face of "number twos." That's what Reverend Justin Lester told the crowd at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet on the morning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/16/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- A presentation attended by many local hotel workers and managers, in accordance with the FBI, sought to shine light on an often overlooked but unfortunately prevalent issue: human trafficking.
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/16/18
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By JOHN HOWELL -- Rhode Islanders would be the losers if Brown University and Prospect Medical Holdings based in California were to acquire Care New England Health System, says the man who ran Kent Hospital for the past five years.
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By John Howell
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1/16/18
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Pilgrim senior Sophia Kate Carter and Taliq Tillman of Providence were selected from among the state’s top student leaders to participate in the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) 56th annual Washington Week.
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1/16/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- The Warwick School Committee has taken a united stand against charter schools. The committee unanimously approved a resolution opposing any charter school from opening within the city.
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/16/18
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Local teams also had a strong showing at the FIRST LEGO League Rhode Island Championship on Saturday, Jan. 13.
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1/16/18
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Barbra Butler passed away peacefully Saturday, December 23rd, 2017.
Barbra was born in Warwick, Rhode Island where she raised her family and had her career working for the dispatch/records office …
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1/16/18
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Almost 400 Rhode Island elementary, middle and high school students, aged 9 to 14 will participate in the FIRST LEGO League HYDRODYNAMICS Championship Tournament on January 13 at Roger Williams University in Bristol. The teams are vying for an
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1/12/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY The benevolent mission of Mentor Rhode Island hasn't changed, they just might be a little easier to find and access now that they've moved from the middle of Apponaug to Warwick Avenue. The change in residence stems from the group
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/12/18
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The neighborly thing It being the law to clear sidewalks, Sean Vases of Church Avenue put his snow blower to work in front of his home Tuesday. He extended his clearing to the property of his neighbors, noting they could use the assistance and, besides,
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1/12/18
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While the future of Warwick's school buildings remains uncertain, and will remain as such until we get a definite answer from the Warwick City Council on Jan. 22 when they hear further discussion from the School Department on an $85 million bond, it is
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1/12/18
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On Jan. 9, 2018, the Warwick Police Department charged Dorothy Andrade, 76, with one count of misdemeanor larceny, which carries the possibility of up to one year of jail time and as much as a $500 fine. The charge stemmed from an investigation into the
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1/11/18
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE CAUSES ACCIDENT On Dec. 29 Richard Gawek, 52, of 880 Division Rd. in East Greenwich was charged with driving under the influence and refusal to submit to a B.A.C. test. At approximately 8:41 p.m. on Dec. 29, Officer Derek
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1/11/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY A champagne cork popped behind the help desk as Planet Fitness celebrated its grand re-opening at a new location - this time amongst the growing number of retail stores in the historic Rhode Island Mall - on Tuesday afternoon with a
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By Ethan Hartley
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1/11/18
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Sandy Gemma was back in elementary school class on Tuesday. It wasn’t her choosing, but it certainly beat the alternative, which in the words of her co-workers was not only “stinky” but also …
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By John Howell
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1/11/18
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By KOBY GARTNER Hospitals are experiencing an increase in patients with flu-like symptoms and other viruses. Joseph Wendelken, the Director of Information at the state Department of Health, told the Beacon Tuesday that holidays tend to become busier at
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By Koby Gartner
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1/11/18
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