Winter blast ends wild year in East Providence
EAST PROVIDENCE — The final weekend of 2012 brought with it a severe winter snowstorm, which could be seen as a fitting end to a wild 12-month span of time in East Providence. 2012 will go down as an historic one for East Providence, the city being the first ever in Rhode Island to have [...]
Read More →Take a delightful and delicious trip to India with some retirees
DVDinner “The Best ExoticMarigold Hotel” 2011, Rated PG-13 2 hours, 4 minutes Directed by John Madden Some of today’s best English actors star in a film that’s a mix of comedy, pathos and social commentary. When a disparate group of elderly Brits are ready for retirement and find themselves short of funds to enjoy [...]
Read More →New East Providence plan could send fifth-graders to middle schools, close Oldham
EAST PROVIDENCE — The oft-discussed closing of Oldham School, along with a new proposal to shift all fifth-grade students to the city’s two middle schools, are part of a couple of the consolidation plans being considered by East Providence administrators. The Post has obtained internal papers documenting the proposed changes, which include the long-considered shuttering [...]
Read More →Barrington news in 2012
Local schools weren’t the only places to make this news this year. Here are a few of the other stories that will be remembered from 2012: Plastic bags — The town’s ordinance banning plastic bags at the point of sale officially took effect Jan. 1. The issue received plenty of attention beginning last spring [...]
Read More →Men’s and women’s consignment shop opens in Tiverton Four Corners
TIVERTON— Upstairs in the Tiverton Four Corners building at 3952 Main Road formerly occupied by Little Purls a new consignment shop has sunk its roots — C & E Consignment. Named for its founders, Cara Oliveira and Erin Wordell, C & E Consignment focuses on clothing and items for women and men. Another newly opened [...]
Read More →Cutie Curls consignment opens in Tiverton Four Corners
TIVERTON — Cutie Curls is the name of a new consignment shop that opened its doors on December 1 at 3952 Main Road in Tiverton Four Corners, in downstairs space formerly occupied by Little Purls, a fixture in the area that for about 20 years that sold children’s clothing. “My youngest daughter named it,” said [...]
Read More →Citizens Betterment group doles out Westport awards
The Westport Citizens Betterment Committee selected an effort to deal with feral cats, a school garden and tennis court repairs as its 2012 award winners The committee awarded Donna Lambert a $1,000 grant to help the Westport animal control officer to trap, neuter and release feral cats and/or put up the trapped kittens for adoption [...]
Read More →‘Interim’ Aquidneck bike path a warmup for real thing
Plans for a ‘real’ bike path remain in the works, but planners have now devised an ‘interim’ plan for an Aquidneck Island path that they believe could be complete much more quickly. “A shoreline bikeway you could ride in two to three years,” is how Tina Dolen, executive director of the Aquidneck Island Planning Commission [...]
Read More →Accused child molester hires criminal defense attorney
Paul J. Dimaio, an attorney with 44 years of criminal defense on his resume´, will represent Richard Perry, a Warren resident and former Bristol school employee and youth sports coach and umpire who was charged with four counts of child molestation. “I don’t know much about the case yet,” Mr. Dimaio said in a telephone [...]
Read More →Bristol celebrates Hector Massa’s 90th birthday
Laughter and tears filled the main ballroom at the Venus de Milo in Swansea Sunday afternoon as nearly 300 family members and friends gathered to help celebrate Bristol icon Edmund P. “Hector” Massa’s 90th birthday. It was a celebration for the ages … literally. Actually, Hector’s birthday was Dec. 28, but thanks to his wife, Shirley, [...]
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