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Final curtain call for two elementary strings programs
by Jen Cowart
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
On Wednesday evening, March 3, the fourth, fifth and sixth-grade Elementary Strings students from Oak Lawn and Glen Hills Elementary Schools performed in what will most likely be their final stri...
City responds to spike in sex offenders
by Meg Fraser
Mar 11, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Two weeks ago, concerned Cranston residents noticed a spike in the number of sex offenders at the Harrington Hall shelter. Within days, they had touched base with the administration, the police d...
Gist defends funding formula to legislators
by Russell J. Moore
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
State Education Commissioner Deborah Gist fielded tough questions from legislators angered by the fact that the department’s proposed school funding formula would send less money to their district ...
Cranston business takes on Kellogg's
by Meri R. Kennedy
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
In 2008, Cranston resident Barbara Manni was inspired by her personal struggle with breast cancer to create KareChiefs, a brand of headscarves for women who lose their hair during chemotherapy. ...
East chronicles past with student documentary
by Meg Fraser
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
For almost six decades, every student in Cranston walked through the same hallways, ate in the same cafeterias, and sang the same fight song. That changed when Cranston West opened its doors in 1...
Planning a memorial for 'sacred ground'
by John Howell
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
“Sacred ground” were the words used Thursday evening to describe the site where 100 died and another 200 were injured on Feb. 20, 2003 in The Station nightclub fire. Yet as it is now, the site ...
Hunger in America study puts faces to the figures
by Meg Fraser
Mar 04, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Between April of 2008 and 2009, emergency food programs in this state saw a 54 percent increase in the demand for meals. That doesn’t surprise the Rhode Island Community Food Bank – they know t...



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