Warren renovation raises eyebrows
An extreme home renovation on Westminster Street is raising eyebrows in Warren. Since workers lopped the roof off of this circa-1890 tenement at 5 Westminster St. last week, it’s been turning heads among preservationists, many of whom have taken to Facebook in hopes of finding out more details. Here they are, according to Warren Building [...]
Read More →Warren Harbormaster eyes Bristol job
Warren Harbormaster Matt Calouro wants to become the new harbormaster in Bristol. Mr. Calouro, who lives in Bristol, recently submitted an application to the Bristol Town Council to take the seat currently held by his father-in-law, Bristol Harbormaster Joseph Cabral. Mr. Cabral plans to retire in December. For several years, Mr. Calouro has served both [...]
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 →Smiley, Terry named to Warren boards
Warren’s Zoning Board and Economic Development Commission have new members this week. At last week’s Warren Town Council meeting, councilors split 4-1 (with Davison Bolster against) as they appointed Mark Smiley as a full-time member of the zoning board; previously, Mr. Smiley was a first alternate. Mr. Smiley, the chairman of the Warren Republican Town [...]
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 →Warren building permits: Week of October 10
The following building permits are on file with Warren Building Inspector William Nash: Adrian C. Boney, 20 Shell Road. Install 100 feet of post and rail fence in front of property, $2,000. 840 Main St. LLC, 840 Main St. Interior and exterior renovation and demolition. demolish west and south facade, remove tar and gravel roof, [...]
Read More →Historic problem? New Warren curbs raise questions
Not everyone is happy with new curbing laid out this week along one of Warren’s earliest streets. Workers from LAL Construction installed a series of granite curbs on the north side of Baker Street as part of a $171,000 sidewalk and curbing project approved last month by the Warren Town Council. Though the curbing is [...]
Read More →Warren approaches Hope & Main incubator vote
In two weeks, Warren voters will head to the polls to decide the fate of the Hope & Main kitchen incubator project, which would bring $3 million in federal investment to the shuttered Main Street School. The project would bring the state’s first kitchen incubator — and according to proponents, hundreds of jobs — to [...]
Read More →Demolition: Solution worse than the problem
The Warren Town Council faces an easy choice when it comes time to decide whether to allow a Houston, Texas company to raze an old Main Street home to make way for a parking lot — reject it and move on to issues more worthy of debate. For this request, there should be little. Service Corporation [...]
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