Barrington students visit Staten Island for day of work
A group of students from the Barrington High School Interact Club traveled to New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y. on Saturday to help the community, which had been hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in late October. The local teenagers helped clean up beaches, fill supply boxes and assist homeowners in that area who are trying to [...]
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 →Barrington students raise $1,500 by wearing ‘Slippers for Sandy’
Students at Sowams Elementary School in Barrington slipped on their slippers during the school day while raising more than $1,500 for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. On Wednesday, students could trade a $1 donation for permission to wear slippers in school. The fund-raiser, titled “Slippers for Sandy,” helped raise $1,541.21, which organizers planned to [...]
Read More →Bristol real estate office helps with hurricane relief
Lisa Foster was hoping to fill a pickup truck with donated goods for people hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy. She ended up needing two large box trucks from a nearby furniture company to move all the collected items. “We were amazed at the outpouring of donations,” Ms. Foster said. “I was shocked. Speechless.” Ms. Foster [...]
Read More →Little Compton seeks help for Sandy victims in NY
LITTLE COMPTON — Chuck Barend’s visited many different Third World countries, and the memories of the living conditions he witnessed all came flooding back when he saw the devastation in the Rockaway Beach section of Queens, NY after Hurricane Sandy. “There’s no power, there’s no water, there’s no heat. It definitely seems like a Third World country, [...]
Read More →Here’s how to help victims of Sandy
We’ve seen the pictures of houses in New Jersey and New York completely destroyed, plowed off their foundations, burned to the ground. We’ve seen the images of entire neighborhoods covered in a sea of sand after Hurricane Sandy barreled across the region, punishing all in her path. We’ve seen the pictures and what have we [...]
Read More →FEMA tours South Shore Beach, other hard-hit places
TIVERTON, LITTLE COMPTON — With power restored to all but a few Tiverton and Little Compton households by the end of last week, officials in the two communities turned to damage assessment. It wasn’t pretty. Hurricane Sandy reduced Little Compton’s South Shore Beach to cobble and rocks, and little or no sand. Just last spring, [...]
Read More →Tiverton schools open Wednesday; lights go on overnight
TIVERTON — All Tiverton schools will be open again and operating Wednesday, Oct. 31, following late night power restoration efforts Tuesday by National Grid crews. Buses will run their normal schedules. Schools had been closed Monday and Tuesday due to power outages and the effects of Hurricane Sandy. The announcement that all schools would be up [...]
Read More →No school for Bristol Warren students on Wednesday
Because of ongoing power outages in large sections of Bristol, including at several schools, the Bristol Warren Regional School District is canceling school on Wednesday. This will be the third day in a row the schools are closed.
Read More →Mandatory evacuation issued in low lying areas of Bristol
Residents in low lying areas have been notified by the Police and Fire Departments of a mandatory evacuation notice. During the storm the town of Bristol Public Safety Director, along with the Police and Fire Chiefs are asking that all citizens of Bristol stay indoors and off the streets and public ways until told otherwise [...]
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