Barrington Baseball Falls to South Kingstown to end win streak
BARRINGTON, R.I. ─ The Barrington Baseball team seems to be turning the corner on their season with two huge wins earlier this week, but the Eagles could not contain the ferocious offense of South Kingstown Wednesday afternoon, falling to the Rebels, 12-2. After a blowout 12-0 win against Toll Gate and a close 3-1 victory [...]
Read More →Two Barrington students win National Merit Scholarships
Barrington High School seniors Karl Aspelund and Sofia Serrano recently learned they had both won $2,500 National Merit Scholarships. They were among only seven students in the state to win the awards. The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding finalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship [...]
Read More →Ionata and Barry pace Eagles to division track title
Barrington’s Charlie Ionata won four throwing events and Tom Barry broke two Eastern Division Championship meet records while leading the Eagles to a team title on Tuesday afternoon. Ionata, a senior thrower, won the shot put, discus, javelin and 12-pound hammer throw at the championships, which were held in Barrington. Ionata threw the hammer 225 [...]
Read More →Audrey in the Afternoon: ‘Funny Face’
“Audrey in the Afternoon,” a 6-week film lecture series celebrating the work of actress Audrey Hepburn, will be presented by librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz at the Barrington Public Library on Wednesday afternoons at 1:00 PM. On May 8, “Funny Face” will be shown. This 1957 film is a frothy, colorful musical about a [...]
Read More →Barrington teacher wins contest and $500 gift card
Primrose Hill School teacher Cheryl August recently won the Celebrate Teachers contest, which was sponsored by the Providence Place Mall. Ms. August, who garnered the most online support in the contest, received a $500 gift card. She has taught at Primrose Hill School for 17 years and previously at Nayatt for seven years. “This was [...]
Read More →Dog bites Barrington school crossing guard in the face
A dog previously thought to be friendly acted anything but with a Nayatt School crossing guard on Friday, May 3. According to police, the station received a phone call at about 9 a.m. on May 3, alerting officers to the situation. The caller told police that the crossing guard, a 54-year-old man, bent over to [...]
Read More →Online petition pushing for full-day kindergarten in Barrington
A group called “Barrington Supports Full Day Kindergarten” has created an online petition calling for the creating of a full-day kindergarten program for the upcoming school year. It is not clear whether Barrington officials will offer the full-day program this year or at some other point in the future, although school administrators have said that [...]
Read More →Baby eel poacher nabbed for drug possession in Barrington
Three people from Maine who told police they were in town to fish for baby eels ended up getting in some hot water because of alleged drug possession instead. At about 2 a.m. Saturday morning, May 4, a Barrington police officer spotted a car parked on South Lake Drive with three people inside. He approached [...]
Read More →Are teacher reductions overdue in Barrington?
Tim Sweetser appeared frustrated. During a meeting Thursday night, the longtime member of the Barrington Committee on Appropriations told members of the school board that he had studied the student enrollment figures for Barrington and seen a downward trend, a trend that did not support hiring more teachers but instead called for the reduction of [...]
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