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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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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