Bayside YMCA meets fund-raising challenge
The community was up to the challenge. The Bayside YMCA recently succeeded in raising $500,000 for the new facility renovation project, which includes a new aquatic center and family center. Fifty-eight donors each contributed at least $2,500, and a group of anonymous benefactors matched the pledges during the Community Fund-raising Challenge. The challenge started in [...]
Read More →Barrington parents plead for full-day K; school board offers small consolation
A group of well-informed, passionate and persistent parents attended the Barrington School Committee meeting on Thursday night, June 6, hoping to convince officials to find money in the current budget to pay for full-day kindergarten in local schools this fall. But after three hours of discussion, the school board denied the requests and instead made [...]
Read More →Backlash brewing over East Bay Beer Fest
Fans of ice cold beer, fried food and live music will have reason to celebrate on Saturday, June 15. Meg Jones will not. The Barrington resident and founder of the local group FAB (For Anything But … alcohol, drugs or tobacco) says the first-ever East Bay Beer Fest at the Blount Clam Shack, which will [...]
Read More →Teenager and his dad arrested on Barrington High prank day
Barrington police were out in force at the high school during prank day, but the hallways were pretty quiet. Instead, officers found themselves busy on Friday, May 31, with one student who allegedly sped his car out of the parking lot and nearly struck a school official in the process. At about 8 a.m., an [...]
Read More →Barrington teenager unresponsive after drinking bottle of whiskey
Barrington police responded to the area near Mussachuck Beach early Sunday morning, June 2, after a 15-year-old girl allegedly drank a bottle of whiskey, passed out and appeared to be suffering from alcohol poisoning. Police and fire received a 911 call at about 1 a.m. on June 2 after a small group of people hanging [...]
Read More →Accident inspires Barrington girl’s award-winning project
Sarah Finnerty does not ride bikes much anymore. The 14-year-old’s bicycle is actually packed away in the basement of her Barrington home, a nice house situated at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac near the Palmer River. There were days, before the accident, when she would ride her bike. But now, three years after her [...]
Read More →Barrington golfer ready for new challenges
Over the last four years, David Kraunelis has proved himself to be one of the best young golfers in the state. He was a member of three Barrington High School state championship golf teams and for the last two years, he has won the state individual golf title. But starting this fall, the longtime Barrington [...]
Read More →Barrington’s Ionata propels Eagles at state track meet
Charlie Ionata, a senior thrower for the Barrington High School boys’ track team, recorded his best hammer throw ever at the state track championship on Saturday at Brown University. Ionata tossed the hammer 240 feet, 5 inches, capturing the state title, the school record, the second-longest throw in RI State Track Meet history, and the [...]
Read More →State champion Eagles receive police escort home from victory
The Barrington High School girls’ lacrosse team, a perennial power in the league, captured yet another state championship on Saturday afternoon, knocking off LaSalle, 14-10, at Brown University. The Eagles, who have played in the championship game of the Division I finals every year since the Rhode Island Interscholastic League began offering the sport, grabbed [...]
Read More →Volunteers make Nayatt playground dream a reality
A team of volunteers helped build a series of additions to the Nayatt School playground recently. The volunteers included a number of teachers and staff members at the school and parents of students, as well as businesses that pitched in — Mangia Trattoria & Pizzeria, Miz. Fibs Catering & Deli, Bagels, etc., Shaw’s, Blount Market, Barrington [...]
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