Barrington High teacher plans fund-raiser for March of Dimes
Jake Correia was born on March 13, 2011. He was eight weeks premature and weighed 2 pounds, 7 ounces, and for the first six weeks of his life, he stayed at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Women and Infants Hospital. Things have improved for the Correias since the first weeks of Jake’s life — [...]
Read More →Animal hospital plan spurs Warren shelter talk
Workers at the cramped and flood-prone Warren Animal Shelter are keeping a close eye on a plan to bring a new animal hospital to town. One day, they hope, it could give them a chance at a new home of their own. On Wednesday night, Dr. Wade Cordy of the Harbor Animal Hospital in Barrington [...]
Read More →Barrington teenagers honored for civic leadership
Rhode Island Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis honored two Barrington teenagers — Molly Williams and Michael Miniati — with his office’s 2013 Civic Leadership Awards, which are given annually to members of the senior class who make outstanding contributions to their school and their community. “This award recognizes students who show an understanding of [...]
Read More →Barrington veterans cancel poppy sale, blame supermarket
A group of local veterans said that future scholarships to Barrington and East Providence students are in doubt after a local supermarket informed the veterans that they could not stay in the store’s foyer during a Memorial Day weekend fund-raising effort. Bill Groves, the commander for the local VFW post, said management at the Barrington [...]
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 [...]
Read More →Bill would block BCWA from charging landlords
Four local legislators are introducing a bill into the General Assembly that would block the Bristol County Water Authority from following state law that requires them to charge landlords for their tenants’ water use. The bill was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Ray Gallison and Kenneth Marshall of Bristol, Jan Malik of Warren and Joy Hearn [...]
Read More →Barrington official: adding full-day K next year may be more difficult
Joel Hellmann had some bad news for people attending last Thursday’s school committee meeting in Barrington. The member of the Barrington Committee on Appropriations told folks at the meeting that while the forecast for adding full-day kindergarten this fall did not look promising, the budget challenges in the future should also cast doubt on whether [...]
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