Opinion
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The Becky Chace Band covers a lot of ground, but you’ll be dancing along with them every step of the way.
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By Tony Pacciti
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10/17/16
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By PETE FONTAINE Although it was pouring rain outside, there was a special ray of sunshine inside Ruth Furia's home in Coventry Sunday afternoon. Sisters Lilly and Olivia Furia - with help from their grandmother, Ruth - presented a $10,000 donation to
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By Pete Fontaine
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10/17/16
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A week after the hopefuls for ward seats gathered at the Central Library on Sockanosset Cross Road, the six candidates for citywide seats on the City Council met for a public forum on Oct. 6. The forum, co-sponsored by the Cranston Herald
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By Pam Schiff
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10/17/16
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Seafood is not just for summer
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Elizabeth Rau
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10/17/16
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Whether it's shoveling snow for the elderly, patrolling parking lots and directing traffic at civic events, or performing physical fitness activities, members of Johnson Police Department Explorer Post 405 always shine as bright as the
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By Pete Fontaine
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10/17/16
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Dem's Diner reopens Two years ago, Mayor Joseph Polisena and Johnston Democratic Town Committee Chairman Richard DelFino Jr. needed a private place to talk strategy for an upcoming election. So the two picked up a couple of sandwiches and soft drinks and
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10/17/16
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Warwick City Hall Ghost Tours will return this year Saturday, October 29 in cooperation with the Ghost Hunt Organized Search Team (GHOST), the city and the Warwick Center for the Arts. Tours are being offered at 7, 8, and 9 p.m. and tickets must be
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10/17/16
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Work Opportunities Unlimited is pleased to announce that Al Hill of Cranston is the recipient of the prestigious Frank Loughran Award. The award recognizes excellence in Supported Employment and is given each year to an employee who has exhibited
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10/16/16
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“It time for a new season,” Tony Zompa, the Johnston Senior Center’s executive director, noted last Friday morning. “We’re looking forward to Halloween, Thanksgiving, and other events, but …
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By Pete Fontaine
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10/16/16
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Angelo Liberti, chief of water protection for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, had more questions than answers yesterday as the department announced the closure of Narragansett Bay, Mt. Hope Bay, the Kickemuit and
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By John Howell
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10/16/16
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In South Kingstown there is a special spot where over 20 artists have contributed their work to compliment Mother Nature's
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By Marylou Butler
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10/15/16
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The East Side's very own chess master
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Michael Clark
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10/15/16
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By PETE FONTAINE If you like big bargains and have some spare cash, the Johnston Historical Society has a shopping opportunity for you. The society will have an old-fashioned yard sale on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the one-time Log Gift & Curtain Shoppe
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By Pete Fontaine
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10/15/16
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The Pawtucket Wintertime Farmers Market is opening for its 10th season on November 5. The largest indoor farmers market in New England, it will be open every Saturday through April 29, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. - this year including both December 24
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10/15/16
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The Bristol Police Department responded to the following calls between Oct. 3 and Oct. 9:
Monday, Oct. 3
A suspicious man was reportedly peering into vehicles at Hope and Constitution streets …
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10/15/16
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Pedestrian hurt, suspect sought in hit-and-run accident Police continue to investigate a hit-and-run accident last week that left a Brown University student with serious injuries. Emergency calls regarding the crash came in shortly
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By Daniel Kittredge
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10/15/16
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1. Joely Anne Centracchio Johnston High School class of 2016 valedictorian is Joely Anne Centracchio plans to attend Boston College, where she will major in psychology. Centracchio's list of accomplishments reads more like a private-sector professional's
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By DANIEL A. KITTREDGE
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10/15/16
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Warwick voters have a history of voting, and in this presidential election year that has so many people talking about the candidates, Dottie McCarthy at the Board of Canvassers expects as many as 80 percent of the city's 64,000 registered
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By John Howell
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10/15/16
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Aram Garabedian, co-managing partner of Warwick Mall, is throwing a spotlight on Rhode Island positives. Joined by Raymond Fogarty of the Chafee Center at Bryant University and Michael Lyons of the Pawtucket Red Sox, Garabedian announced
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By John Howell
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10/15/16
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Reclaiming life for Karen McCahey means finding her new normal - her new self. This proud cancer survivor has had her reality turned upside-down and inside-out from the moment she was diagnosed with stage II invasive lobular breast
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By Laurie Pichette
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10/15/16
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Johnston-based Briarcliffe Manor is in a very select group of highly-skilled nursing homes nationally.
“We just received word that the federal government has released updated nursing home …
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By Pete Fontaine
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10/14/16
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Schools across the city are taking part in Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. Faculty, staff, and students are raising money for groups such as the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation and the American Cancer Society
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10/14/16
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Touting the project's educational and energy-saving benefits, local and state leaders last week toured Edgewood Highland Elementary School to view the facility's new heating and air conditioning system. The work was made possible
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By Daniel Kittredge
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10/14/16
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Twelve Cranston teachers are heading back to college for intensive English as a Second Language Instruction training as part of a $480,000 initiative to close the achievement gap" for students who are English Learners (EL). Eight percent of the"
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10/14/16
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Universal Wealth Management has relocated from Providence to a new, remodeled office at 945 Reservoir Ave. in Cranston, and was recently welcomed by the city. Pictured with Mayor Allan Fung is owner Karen Emma, a longtime Cranstonian,
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10/14/16
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