Hope and Main group plans incubator bids
Things may seem quiet at the Main Street School, but there’s a lot going on behind the scenes with the Hope & Main incubator, seven weeks after Warren residents approved the sale of the old school to the Bristol-based group. “There’s quite a lot going on,” said Lisa Raiola, who founded Hope & Main and [...]
Read More →The polls are open in Warren
If you live in Warren, you don’t have to wait until Tuesday to vote. There’s an important referendum occurring Monday, too. Though general election voting won’t occur until Tuesday, voters today are deciding whether or not to approve the sale of the Main Street School to the Hope & Main kitchen incubator project for $125,000. [...]
Read More →Final Hope & Main vote is Monday
Voters will decide the fate of the Hope & Main kitchen incubator once and for all during an all-day vote planned for this coming Monday, Oct. 29, at Warren Town Hall. Though voters overwhelmingly approved the sale of the Main Street School to the incubator group last week, voting nearly 383 to 10 to sell [...]
Read More →Thanks for supporting Hope & Main; please do so next week
To the editor: To the Town of Warren: Thank you. Thank you for turning out in the wind-driven rain; for braving a traffic jam that resembled an evacuation; and for standing in line not once but twice to cast your vote for an idea that you believe in. We imagined many possible scenarios for last [...]
Read More →Video: Warren’s Hope & Main vote
Want to see how the Hope & Main vote at Kickemuit Middle School went Monday evening? Click here. It’s pretty obvious from watching the video but if you can’t tell the outcome, the audience voted overwhelmingly to sell the Main Street School to Hope & Main for $125,000. They also voted to authorize an Adjourned [...]
Read More →Warren: 383 voted for Hope & Main sale
The numbers are in, and it’s official — a lot of people voted in Monday night’s Special Financial Town Meeting at Kickemuit Middle School in Warren. Canvassers say 383 Warren voters had their say at the meeting, held to determine whether the town should sell the Main Street School to the Hope & Main kitchen [...]
Read More →Good showing, Warren
Monday night was one of those nights that, as one resident said afterwards, “we’ll remember 20 years from now.” It was a night when grass-roots action, governmental snafus, a good idea and a rare exercise by residents of their right to vote paid off in a huge way: By giving the town the right to [...]
Read More →Warren residents overwhelmingly approve Hope & Main sale
Warren residents line up to register prior to Monday night’s vote, which came out overwhelmingly in favor of the sale of the Main Street School to the Hope & Main group for $125,000. As many as 400 Warren residents braved rain, long lines, a traffic jam and a last-minute change of venue Monday night to [...]
Read More →Vote ‘Yes” on Main Street School sale Monday
It’s not often that you get a $3 million return on a $125,000 sale. Yet that’s what will happen if Warren residents vote to approve the sale of the Main Street School to the Hope & Main kitchen incubator group at Monday night’s special Financial Town Meeting. It’s been a long time since anyone brought [...]
Read More →Warren readies for Hope & Main vote
There’s less than a week to go until the vote, and supporters of the Hope & Main kitchen incubator are trying to rally support for their cause in advance of a special Financial Town Meeting planned for 7p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, at Warren Town Hall. At the meeting, voters will be asked to approve the [...]
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