The secret is out: Representative David Bennett is really Santa and Senator Matthew LaMountain is his number one elf.
The pair visited the Warwick Beacon office Saturday for …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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12/7/23
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The City Council got a snapshot of Warwick Schools Monday that covered scores, high performing schools, awards and recognitions, developments in technology, curriculum, building renovations and …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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12/7/23
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The consensus among parents, crossing guards, Principal Frank Galligan and Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur is that Warwick Neck School drop off and pickups are safer now that the city has widened the …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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12/7/23
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As the holiday season begins and children throughout Warwick make their wish lists, members of the Warwick City Council are looking to cross infrastructure projects throughout the city off of their …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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12/7/23
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When retired Warwick elementary school teacher and Warwick Rotary Club member Tom Sanford proposed a Thanksgiving morning turkey trot as a means of raising charitable funds, his plan was to team up …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/30/23
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Two women, one who wouldn’t have lived to celebrate her second birthday and the other hours away from dying gave thanks for their lives last Tuesday and urged people to register as tissue and …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/30/23
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Westbay Community Action and the Warwick Boys and Girls Clubs ensured a plentiful Thanksgiving for hundreds of families Saturday as they distributed food from Westbay offices on Jefferson Boulevard …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/23/23
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Iftikhar Ahmad, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, likes to think of Green Airport as the little engine that could.
He made the analogy when addressing Warwick Rotary …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/23/23
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I met Santa: The real one. He’s a bit taller than I imagined.
Santa’s red sled is the same shade as his fire engine. I wondered, if on one Christmas Eve, as Santa slid down a chimney …
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By ERIN O’BRIEN
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11/16/23
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Not long after moving to Conimicut, Ginny Barham wanted to learn more about the community and started attending village association meetings. Not long after that she thought of serving on …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/16/23
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More than 400 people have signed a petition calling on the city to buy as much as 12 acres bordering the Pawtuxet River and “close the loop” to a 2.3 mile walking trail that circles …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/16/23
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As he steps down as Rhode Island Democratic Party Chair, Rep. Joseph McNamara (Dist. 19, Warwick/Cranston) looks to devote more time to education.
McNamara said his decision not to seek the …
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By ADAM ZANGARI
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11/16/23
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Gloria Coppola never stops looking for connections that will answer questions.
In this case it is the disappearance of Frank Hanson Jr., 16 who lived in Cranston and was soon to move to Warwick …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/9/23
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Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur doesn’t want to be in the position of saying “I told you so” when a student is injured while getting dropped off or picked up from the Rocky Point …
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By JOHN HOWELL
In August of 2022, Breeze Airways announced it had selected Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport as one of its bases of operations and that over a period of five years …
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11/9/23
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The pandemic has done more than ignite a supercharged housing market, inflicted a non recoverable loss in the education of our children and changed the workplace. It has also spawned a crop of …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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11/2/22
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