Pondering this month’s coverage of billionaires, proving Sir Issac Newton’s law of gravity and motion, I reflected back on a momentous event 52 years ago.
At 3:17 p.m. EST on …
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By Howard G. Sutton
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7/28/21
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To the editor:
I am writing in response to Michael Byrnes' letter to the editor in last weeks paper , and to give my opinion about the BLM Mural recently put up in a courtyard at the Mt. Hope …
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7/20/22
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As a member of many organizations, I receive invoices via my mail carrier to continue my membership. Often these invoices ask for additional funds at my discretion to help with building maintenance, …
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4/10/20
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI): These ideas are anathema to white Christian nationalists who fear losing their “rightful place” and their power and authority in America. DEI …
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3/28/24
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The Bristol County Water Authority’s decision to raise rates 10 percent and abandon the current reservoir system makes little sense to me. The plan to dismantle the dams at Schoolhouse Road and …
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3/5/20
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You must wear it in shopping malls. You must wear it in libraries. You must wear it six feet apart, in lines, with your nose and mouth covered.
At first we were told it did nothing to prevent the …
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2/5/21
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Dear unvaccinated friends, you need to understand that every unvaccinated human body is a sanctuary for the coronavirus. It’s a safe place where the virus can rest, grow, multiply, and …
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7/28/21
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Our organization remains a grassroots movement whose mission is to empower the residents of Warren to promote sustainable development while preserving our town's unique character without overwhelming our natural resources and infrastructure.
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4/18/24
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As the 2021/2022 school year approaches, I sincerely hope the Bristol Warren school district will consider the bold move to greatly expand music, visual arts, and other fine arts programs and to …
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7/29/21
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To the editor:
The irony of two back-to-back articles in the Aug. 16, 2023 Warren Times prompted me to write this letter. The first article was “A worthy day for Warren’s first …
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8/23/23
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It would be disastrously short sighted for Bristol-Warren students to get left behind in outdated and inadequate facilities.I encourage every voter to do their research and make an informed decision to support this investment in our future.
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10/25/23
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I have felt like Chicken Little running around town saying that the sky is falling.
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4/18/24
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To the editor: Federal Judge Smith of Rhode Island made a decision that truck tolls, not applicable to automobiles, is unconstitutional by the Commerce Clause of the federal constitution.
That …
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10/13/22
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To the editor:
Every reasonable person favors preventing the criminal use of guns. But we are not going to make progress on that until the gun control lobby ends its campaign of misinformation …
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5/19/23
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The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) of the Bristol Warren Regional School District has once again completed its annual springtime budget deliberations , with the usual results of both an increase in …
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4/21/21
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Dredging in the Sakonnet should be prevented and the attendant difficulties in bringing ashore the power cables returned to Massachusetts where they belong.
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3/28/24
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When we take care of trees, trees take care of people and entire ecosystems.
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3/28/24
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When Goglia’s market closes its doors, Bristol won’t lose just a great neighborhood market, it will lose an institution. No other place shares its one-of-a-kind character.
Built by …
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4/23/20
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One of the disturbing messages coming out of the more recent Bristol Warren Regional School Committee meeting was the idea that mask wearing is cognitively, physically, and emotionally harmful to …
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8/25/21
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Over the past several weeks, I have followed the ‘mask debate’ as it pertains to the start of the school year. The increasingly polarizing rhetoric around this reflects an erosion of our …
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8/26/21
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As a high school Criminal Law teacher, I wanted to address some of Peter Hewett's comments about the new Sex Education Bill that was proposed. A huge part of my curriculum is about human trafficking, …
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3/3/22
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To the editor: Thank you to the Bristol Warren School Committee for adopting a secure storage resolution at their April 17 meeting . This resolution will help educate parents and guardians of school …
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4/27/23
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To the editor: In last week’s Phoenix, a front-page headline and subhead informed readers of a Bristol Warren Regional School Committee decision in which a 5-4 majority voted against allowing a …
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4/27/23
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Budget money has constantly been allocated to everything else, from digital security labs to soccer stadiums. Meanwhile critical infrastructure, like the 195 bridge, was shoddily inspected and shoddily repaired. Here is the result.
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1/25/24
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I wonder, given these budgetary practices, how will the Town’s surplus be rebuilt?
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3/28/24
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