The Cranston Herald
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The Cranston East Thunderbolts beat the Wheeler Warriors, 65-60, on Friday night at Cranston High School West in the Hank Orabone Holiday Tournament title game. Five players scored in double-figures for the 'Bolts. Junior
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By Ryan D. Murray
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1/12/18
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By JEN COWART As some may have been taking down all symbols of the celebration of Christmas during the past week, the parishioners at Saint David's on-the-Hill Episcopal Church were taking in one last Christmas tradition this past Sunday before saying
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By Jen Cowart
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1/11/18
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By JEN COWART The brutally cold temperatures could not keep Future Falcons away from Cranston High School West on Sunday afternoon. The annual open house event, designed to let future students and parents of Cranston West and the Cranston Area Career and
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By Jen Cowart
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1/11/18
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Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin recently announced a settlement agreement between the State of Rhode Island and Children's Rights, Inc., resolving a decade-long civil action that alleged deficiencies at the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth
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1/11/18
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An old adage exclaims, “Hope Springs Eternal.” A new year offers the possibility that government, whether local, state, or federal might fulfill its most basic tenant and actually serve the needs …
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By Christopher Curran
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1/11/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG Cranston's department of community development is paying for a one-time delivery of 100 gallons of heating oil to Cranston residents who meet certain income guidelines. Stephanie Sussi, interim director of community development, said
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/11/18
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To the Editor: I don't want no wild-eyed, gun totin' good ole boys from out west comin' up here to Row Dylan packin' heat. This seems to be the sentiment of critics like Cranston's Tom Wojick, who is concerned that the Fix NICS Act" of 2017 will"
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1/11/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG Fire Marshal Stephen MacIntosh said Tuesday that the investigation into the fire that burned down a barn just 15 feet from a residence on Seven Mile Road is still ongoing, but the expectation is they'll never know what caused it. The
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/11/18
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By MERI R. KENNEDY On what might have been one of the coldest day on record, Jan. 6, approximately 50 people, including Mr. and Mrs. Claus, as well as at least half a dozen beauty queens and Mayor Allan Fung and his wife Barbara Ann Fenton, made for a
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By Meri R. Kennedy
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1/11/18
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ASSAULT On January 2 at 11:30 p.m., Officer Bellevue arrested Eric G. Brown, 44 of 54 Lexington Avenue in Cranston for domestic simple assault as a result of a warrant stop by Warwick Police. He was then held for arraignment. LARCENY Officer Medeiros
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1/10/18
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By JEN COWART With the start of the New Year, OneCranston has formally introduced their new Initiative Director, Ayana Crichton. Formerly an employee of the Cranston Public Schools as director of their after-school, summer, and vacation programming for
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By Jen Cowart
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1/10/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG The drifts piled up as high as the gazebo in Garden City. Schools were cancelled for two days and the city was basically shut down last Thursday as the snowstorm brought over a foot of snow to the area. But officials across Cranston
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/10/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG Cranston East students got the call just over an hour before school was going to start Monday morning that they'd be getting five days off from school. The reason was a pipe burst - an issue that Edgewood Highland is also dealing with
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/10/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG Edgewood Highland Elementary students and staff needed to find a new home-away-from-home after a water main break caused a flood of four feet at one point last Wednesday, forcing the students to evacuate. They've now got one in the
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/10/18
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By MERI R. KENNEDY Within three hours, 900 signatures on six petitions to help animals throughout Rhode Island were collected at Pet Supplies Plus in Garden City on Jan. 6 by Dennis Tabella, Director of Defenders of Animals and several volunteers.
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By Meri R. Kennedy
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1/10/18
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By THOMAS GREENBERG Cranston's next city planner has a lot of work ahead of him. But because Jason Pezzullo has been working in the planning department for 12 years now, he and retiring director Peter LaPolla are ready for a seamless transition as
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By Thomas Greenberg
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1/10/18
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Robert A. Cramer 62, passed away Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at home. He was the beloved husband of Annette L. (Major) Cramer.
Born in Rochester, NY, he was the son of the late Edward S. Cramer …
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1/10/18
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Cranston police and crime scene investigators were seen outside of a home on West Blue Road on Monday afternoon putting what is believed to be a dead body into a white van.
Yesterday, Cranston …
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1/8/18
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Grade 8 High Honors Muntaha Asif, Kodi Brown, Rachel Cabral, Mathilda Corocran, Hailee Evans, Amy Fang, Madeleine Gerrish, Spencer Hill, Ghassan Jomaa, Madison Louro, James Ring, Trinity Saad, Nathan Scarborough, Joseph Tevyaw, Kaleigh Valle, Maral Zoban
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1/6/18
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MR. & MRS. JEFFREL F. DeLUCA (Adeline and Grace Photography) Carissa L. Schneider and Jeffrey F. DeLuca were united in marriage September 3, 2017 by Pastor Ronald Provencal at Linden Place Mansion, Bristol. The bride is the daughter of Clifford Schneider
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1/6/18
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By PAM SCHIFF There were only 16 available spaces that filled up quickly and there was even an extensive waiting list for any possible cancellations reports branch librarian, Stefanie Blankenship. That was the story Dec. 16 as the Oaklawn Library held
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By Pam Schiff
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1/5/18
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By JOHN HOWELL -- With temperatures dipping into the single digits, National Grid customers are using about 60 percent more natural gas than they would if the thermometer was reading in the 30s.
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/5/18
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By JOHN HOWELL -- Before T.F. Green Airport, it was Hillsgrove and now the Rhode Island Airport Corporation is considering changing the name to Rhode Island International Airport.
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by ETHAN HARTLEY
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1/4/18
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Computer Science Week kicked off on Dec. 4, and all month long elementary students in Cranston Public Schools were partaking in a variety of computer science activities. Students played games and took tutorials; read biographies of computer coding
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1/4/18
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By JEN COWART As part of the recent CS4RI statewide computer science summit, a special three-hour session was held for school administrators and guidance counselors to discuss why computer science education matters. An overview of CS4RI programs was
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By Jen Cowart
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1/4/18
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