Warwick Beacon
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Nina Stack discovered the beauty of smallness as a girl when her parents rented a home on Block Island. She had summer jobs on the island. She kept returning to the island and bought a house and …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/9/19
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Ring the security buzzer at most Warwick schools, look up at the camera that you know is focused on you and wait for the squawk on the speaker – “Yes, who’s there?”
That doesn’t happen …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/8/19
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LARCENY On Dec. 16 at approximately 6:09 p.m., Officer Anthony D'Ambrosca was dispatched to the Sonesta Suites on Kilvert Street for a report of a larceny. At the scene he met with the reporting party, who explained that she arrived at the Sonesta around
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1/8/19
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By JOHN HOWELL Joseph DelPonte joined the Boys Scouts when he was 13. He loved being a scout and, after he aged out, he kept involved. But the weekly demands became too much. He wondered if there might be an event he could run once a year. So, he became
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/8/19
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“Not a lot of people get chances like this, and I just take it as a blessing,” said Cory Bellucci, a self-taught guitarist who will have the opportunity to play alongside renowned American blues …
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By IAN WEINER
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1/8/19
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In the dead of a Rhode Island winter, there is no better place to be than the rainforest. One step into the new “Faces of the Rainforest” exhibit at the Roger Williams Park Zoo and you will be …
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By JULIA HOPKINS
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1/8/19
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If Governor Gina Raimondo could have predicted the weather, she might have included a pun in her second inaugural address that the 40 mile per hour gusts that buffeted the crowd on the front lawn of …
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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1/3/19
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It was a year ago that City Hall staffers entered the Annex to discover water pouring from the ceiling of the first floor assessor’s office. During the weekend, when temperatures dipped into the …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/3/19
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The new year in Warwick will mark the first year that a man not named Scott Avedisian will occupy the corner office of City Hall since the turn of the millennium. While tenured City Councilman Joseph …
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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1/3/19
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DISORDERLYOfficer Gregory Johnson responded to assist Officer Christopher Gillis on December 21 at approximately 2:15 p.m. with a motor vehicle crash on Bald Hill Road at East Avenue. Officer Gillis …
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1/3/19
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In pledging to maintain a course to build the economy and jobs after taking the oath as Speaker of the House, Rep. Nicholas Mattiello listed the voters of District 15 among the first to …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/3/19
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What a difference a year makes.
Last New Year’s Day there were a few diehards, ready to plunge into an ice-caked hole in a frozen Greenwich Bay all for the sake of helping Mentor RI maintain the …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/3/19
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The forecast was for gale force winds and that had some of the Frozen Few thinking twice about frostbite sailing on New Year’s Day. But killing a tradition is not in character for members of the …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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1/3/19
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VANDALISMOn December 18 at approximately 10 a.m. Officer Rose Michel met with a complainant in the lobby of police headquarters to take a report regarding malicious damage. The woman told the officer …
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12/27/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY City Hall felt more like a family reunion Monday night as legislative and municipal colleagues, family members and long-time friends gathered to bid farewell to Ward 8 Councilman Joseph Gallucci, in what would be his final City Council
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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12/20/18
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Motorists accustomed to using Sandy Lane have either taken an alternative route or come to know the detour that takes them past the city compost station to connect to Cedar Swamp Road. Traffic …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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12/20/18
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By JOHN HOWELL Col. Stephen M. McCartney didn't use a microphone Tuesday night as he addressed a packed City Council Chambers. He didn't need one. The audience listened attentively. McCartney, who retires this Friday, wasn't talking about himself or his
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By JOHN HOWELL
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12/20/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY Warwick educators have access to a unique advantage over other districts in the state when it comes to shoring up school safety. The Mutual Link system connects police, fire and EMS services with the schools so that, through the use of a
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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12/20/18
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Beth Marsh had just finished filling a new white heavy-duty laundry basket with children’s clothing including a jacket when she exclaimed: “This is the best thing in the world!”
Meanwhile, …
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By PETE FONTAINE
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12/20/18
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SHOPLIFTINGOn Dec. 7 at approximately 7:10 p.m., Officer Quentin Tavares was dispatched to JC Penney on Bald Hill Road for the report of a shoplifting, with one adult female in custody.Upon arrival …
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12/20/18
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By ETHAN HARTLEY The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) of Rhode Island held their annual lawmaker meet and greet on Thursday night at their headquarters located at 931 Jefferson Boulevard, which gives organizational staff and
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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12/19/18
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE On December 9 at approximately 3:12 a.m. Officer Sara Goes was parked at the Dave's Marketplace on Airport Road facing north when she reported that she observed a black Volvo traveling east on Airport Road turn south onto
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12/18/18
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By JOHN HOWELL A boy's wish to help others keeps growing every year, with more and more people being helped out. It all started when Noah Grebstein of Cranston and his mother, Mindy Mosca, got lost on their way to visit Noah's grandmother, who was a
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By JOHN HOWELL
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12/18/18
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The Warwick School Committee decided last year that it would no longer force students who were delinquent on lunch payments to eat a SunButter and jelly sandwich. It was considered by some in the …
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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12/13/18
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By DON FOWLER Warwick resident Lori Bernard is a certified personal trainer, certified health coach and certified hypnotist. Personal trainer" and "health coach" are familiar terms in today's health conscious society. But when you add "hypnosis" to the"
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By DON FOWLER
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12/13/18
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