Warwick Beacon
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Warwick Police announced Tuesday that two suspects had been arrested for their involvement in a stabbing that occurred outside of a convenient store in Conimicut on Monday, Feb. 5. According to the release sent out by Warwick Police
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/8/18
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“We have three children,” said Jennifer Grace as she sat at a small, round table in a brightly-lit room at Hope Hospice and Pallative Care (HHPCRI) in Wakefield. A box of tissues was in the …
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By Jen Cowart
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2/8/18
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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 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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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 ETHAN HARTLEY In an interview following an article that covered the Rhode Island League of Cities and Town's panel discussion of the state's binding arbitration process, the state firefighters union has responded strongly to criticisms levied against
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/6/18
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Snow was in the forecast and that was good news. At least I thought so. That was 40 years ago today, and I had a passion for cross-country skiing. As soon as there was enough, I was off for a loop around Seaview Golf Course - now Harborlights - or a
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By John Howell
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2/6/18
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Deep roots of kindness Jen Lima, whose son Justin Lima was good friends with Kevin Lorenz, said she burst into tears when she found a cross carved into the stump of the tree where 26-year-old Lorenz died in a motorcycle accident on June 5, 2015. The tree
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2/6/18
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By JOHN HOWELL President Trump won't be on the November ballot. That hasn't stopped former Warwick State Representative Joseph Trillo from running as Rhode Island's Trump candidate for governor. A Republican turned independent, Trillo ran the president's
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By John Howell
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2/6/18
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE On Jan. 26 at approximately 5:42 p.m., Officer Fontaine was at the intersection of Woguagonet and Oakland Beach Avenue when he observed a silver Chevrolet Impala traveling south on Oakland Beach Avenue at a high rate of speed.
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2/6/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Some of Rep. K. Joseph Shekarchi's supporters thought he might be up against the Super Bowl. Would many of those thinking of attending his $150 a ticket fundraiser at the Crowne Plaza Thursday night already be in Minneapolis? Indeed, Aram
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By John Howell
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2/6/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Alan Shawn Feinstein is one of the many who want to see the PawSox stay in Rhode Island. That wasn't the reason he was in the audience Saturday morning at Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers in Cranston, although there is a connection. Feinstein was
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By John Howell
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2/6/18
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It was a combination of chance and inspiration that led Andrew Grover to build scaled-down LEGO models of the closed Aldrich and Gorton Junior High Schools.
The plastic pieces of architectural art …
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By Koby Gartner
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2/6/18
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Margaret E. (Smith) Brown, 93, passed away Thursday, February 1, 2018 surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife of the late William F. Brown.
She was the beloved mother of Theresa Rotondo …
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2/6/18
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Barbara E. Tougas, 81, of Warwick, died Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at the St. Jeanne Jugan Residence in Pawtucket. She was the beloved wife of the late Edward D. Tougas.
Born in Providence, she …
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2/4/18
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Citizens Bank announced recently that its Community Development Group has provided $9 million in financing in the form of a tax-exempt bond to Pawtucket Development Group, LLC for the acquisition and renovation of a vacant historic mill, known as Lippitt
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2/3/18
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Carole A. Burgess, 44, passed away Sunday, January 14, 2018.
She was the loving daughter of John A. Morretti, Lorraine F. (Card) Mitchell and her husband, Patrick L. Mitchell, Sr.; maternal …
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2/3/18
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Sunday open house The city's three parochial schools, St. Rose of Lima, St. Peter and St. Kevin held open houses on Sunday to lead off Catholic School Week this week. For many parents it was an opportunity to meet and talk with their child or children's
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2/3/18
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Donald F. Vieweg Jr., of Arlington. Don was born on June 23, 1957 in Conimicut, RI. He died at home in Arlington, Massachusetts on January 23, 2018, surrounded by the support of his beloved family …
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2/2/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Rhode Island is not the best, or worst, in education in comparison to the rest of the country. Unfortunately, it was also ranked lower than any other state in New England.
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/2/18
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John G. Messineo, 58, of Deltona, Florida, formerly of Warwick, a Building Contractor, died Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at Florida Hospital Deland. He was the beloved husband of Theresa Ann (Chavez) …
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2/2/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- Sam's Inn restaurant in Warwick faced some heat from customers who got sick after dining at the restaurant on Jan. 20, which prompted an investigation from the Rhode Island Department of Health on Jan. 24.
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/1/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG -- St. Kevin School had a total of 251 students enrolled at the beginning of this school year, 103 more than there were seven years ago.
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By Thomas Greenberg
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2/1/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY -- The Warwick School Department will be able to go forward with their request for a bond to repair the city's schools, however they will only be eligible to receive less than half of what they originally hoped for
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By Ethan Hartley
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2/1/18
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By JOHN HOWELL -- Rhode Island politicians responded quickly and candidly to President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday night, which ran as the third-longest State of the Union in the country's history.
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By John Howell
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2/1/18
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