Barrington High girls’ win New England 4×800 meter relay title in record fashion
NEW BRITAIN, CONN. — The Barrington High School girls’ 4×800 meter relay team captured the regional title Saturday, June 8, in the New England Interscholastic Outdoor Track and Field Championship Meet Willow Brook Park. The Eagles’ foursome of Julia Zitzman, Julianna Portelli, Abby Livingston and Megan Verner-Crist claimed the regional title in a new meet [...]
Read More →Mt. Hope graduate never missed a day of school – ever
Mt. Hope High School commencement is Saturday, and it’s safe to say graduating senior Carrington Henley will be there. The Warren resident, 18, received an award Thursday night for being the only graduate to have perfect attendance throughout his entire school career. That’s 2,340 days, including Kindergarten. “Oh, he’ll be there,” his mother, Cindy Oliver-Henley, [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Booze delivery
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in June 1913: Slow down! The regular meeting of the town council was held Monday evening. The most important discussion was relative to the corner of CHild and Main streets as a dangerous one for automobilists. There were many suggestions as to the [...]
Read More →Without a net: Brown Bird’s Lamb fights leukemia
The past month has been unimaginably tough for Dave Lamb and his fiance MorganEve Swain, who make up Warren’s own Brown Bird, one of the biggest acts to come out of the Rhode Island music scene in years. As touring musicians versed in living life on the road, the Water Street couple are used to [...]
Read More →Photo: The bass are in
The bass are in. Bristol resident Peter Silvia (left) and Warren’s Nick Couto posed for this photo with two roughly 25-pound stripers last Friday, after catching the fish in the upper bay. The two friends do a lot of fishing in Warren, Bristol and out on Prudence Island. Have local fishing photos? Send them in [...]
Read More →Warren police logs: Officers sweep Metacom
Monday, May 27 The window of a car parked on Main Street was smashed. A woman earlier reported missing from her Main Street home returned, safe and sound, just before 11 a.m. A Broad Street woman told police that a man kept walking by her house. Someone called police to report spotting a broom in [...]
Read More →Barrington’s Ionata, Bay View’s Johnson finish among state track champs
PROVIDENCE — Temperatures hovering around 90 degrees greeted the participants in the 2013 Rhode Island State High School Outdoor Track and Field Championships Saturday, June 1, at Brown Stadium. The less-than ideal weather didn’t preclude a couple of local standouts from performing at their best when it mattered. The track coaches at Wake Forest University [...]
Read More →Bristol Warren school committee vice chairman takes assignment in Afghanistan
For the next 12 months, when Warren resident John Bento goes to work, he’ll put on the National Guard uniform as he’s done for over 20 years and help the Army recruit and retain soldiers who will defend the country. But rather than work from his office here in Rhode Island, Mr. Bento will be [...]
Read More →Warren set to reduce tax exemptions
The Warren Town Council was expected to reduce many of the tax exemptions the town extends to some residents, during a special meeting held Friday afternoon, May 31. Exemptions are being reduced across the board not to recoup revenue that would otherwise be lost, but to adjust for the town’s recent statistical revaluation. On average, [...]
Read More →Indictment for alleged shotgun-wielding Warren felon
Daniel Ferro, 50, the 44 Barton Ave. man who greeted Rhode Island State troopers with a loaded shotgun when they came to his door last Friday, May 24, was arraigned in federal court in Providence Thursday on an indictment charging him with one count of being a felon in possession of ammunition. Mr. Ferro was [...]
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