Barrington boy ranks nationally in gymnastics
Barrington seventh-grader Wolfgang “Wolfe” Personeus placed 14th in the country on the pommel horse event after the 2-day combined score results at the 2013 Men’s Gymnastics Junior Olympics National Championship in Portland, Ore. earlier this month. He finished in 28th place out of 173 gymnasts in the all-around (total of 6 events) after the first [...]
Read More →Barrington students enjoy Outdoor Day activities
Students at Sowams School participated in their annual Outdoor Day activities on Monday afternoon, June 17. The event included some competitions on the school grounds and also allowed parents to stop by the school and share lunch with their sons and daughters. Outdoor Day marked the beginning of a week’s worth of end-of-the-school-year activities at [...]
Read More →Barrington boasts All-Americans in track and field
A number of Barrington High School student-athletes competed in the New Balance National Outdoor Track Championships last weekend in North Carolina. The Barrington girls’ 4×800 meter relay team of Emma Mc Millan, Julianna Portelli, Megan Verner-Crist and Abby Livingston finished second in a time of 9:01.12, breaking their Rhode Island-record of 9:05.49, set last weekend [...]
Read More →Elderly Warren man pinned underneath his car in Barrington
People had to come to the rescue of an 84-year-old Warren man after he became pinned underneath his own car in Barrington on Monday, June 10. Barrington police received a phone call at about noon alerting officers to an elderly man who was stuck under the opened driver’s side door of his own car on [...]
Read More →Rita W. DeSisto, 94, Barrington
Rita W. (Lacas) DeSisto, 94, of Barrington, passed away Thursday, June 13, 2013 at St. Elizabeth Manor in Bristol. She was the wife of the late Nicholas DeSisto. Born in Providence she was the daughter of the late Wilfred and Rose (Poirier) Lacas. She worked for RI Lace and American Tourister until her retirement. Rita [...]
Read More →Another intoxicated Barrington teenager rushed to hospital
For the second time in less than two weeks, a Barrington teenager consumed a large amount of alcohol, fell ill and needed to be transported to a hospital. Police received a 911 call at about 11 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12 alerting officers to a 17-year-old Barrington boy who had downed about 7 or 8 [...]
Read More →Barrington parents bitter over school board’s inaction
A light rain started to fall on the small group of people who had gathered outside the Barrington School Committee room late Thursday night, June 6, but the precipitation did little to dampen the heated discussion. The moms and dads had just sat through three hours of frustrating conversation. They had entered the school committee [...]
Read More →Duck in the damper — fowl found in Barrington chimney
David Kopec was in for a little surprise when he attempted to clean the chimney at an Olive Lane home recently. The co-owner of A-Tec Chimney Sweeps could see the six inches of ash sitting in the bottom of the fireplace, but he was completely unaware of the male wood duck that was sitting on [...]
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