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Two of the 50 private rooms inside the new hospital across Hartford Avenue from Amazon will cater specifically to morbidly obese patients.
Inside the pair of specialized rooms await a …
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By RORY SCHULER
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7/24/24
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Music, food and fireworks marked the end of St. Mary’s Feast in Cranston Sunday — a 119-year-old festival that is the highlight of the year for many residents in the city’s …
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Cranston Herald photos by Barbara Polichetti
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7/24/24
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City Council’s Democratic majority briefly considered killing the mayor’s newly proposed public encampment ordinance, before sending it to committee.
A city lawyer, however, advised …
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By RORY SCHULER
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7/24/24
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The city has awarded a more than $4 million bid to demolish and rebuild the Budlong Pool, and has set an expected 2025 completion date.
“News of the bid awarded for the Budlong Pool has …
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A Westerly father visited the Cranston School Committee on July 15.
As he accused the school district of discriminating against the vast majority of city students, the seventh-ranked student from Cranston High School East’s Top 10 quietly held a rainbow-colored sign, no bigger than a medium-sized pizza box lid. The sign said simply: “We love our kids.”
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By RORY SCHULER
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7/24/24
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Modern-day public altercations tend to follow an increasingly familiar formula.
Tensions escalate. A circle forms. Cell phones, cameras lit, turn toward the drama.
The drama escalates …
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By RORY SCHULER
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7/22/24
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Shun Pike single-family homeowners in Johnston square off against affordable housing condo developer
They learned to live with the solar fields and sky-scraping windmills.
But 32 condos — 16 restricted to low- and moderate-income households, and 16 market rate units —neighbors …
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By RORY SCHULER
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7/18/24
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On Tuesday evening, around 6 p.m., the long row of registers at Stop & Shop in Johnston was empty. There were clearly more employees than customers in the store.
By early November, the …
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By RORY SCHULER
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7/18/24
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The Gershkoff/Top Notch Lightning Elite 14-U baseball team traveled down to Myrtle Beach for the Youth Baseball Nationals Tournament series, and came back champions. The tournament included the top …
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By ALEX SPONSELLER
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7/17/24
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The field for some of Cranston’s electoral races thinned after the July 12 deadline for nomination papers.
After not receiving the party nominations, multiple Democrats did not submit …
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By RYAN DOHERTY
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7/17/24
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Special to the Herald
The historic Park Theater will be reopening its doors this October.
The theater — which temporarily closed last year — is set to host multiple shows this …
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By RYAN DOHERTY
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7/17/24
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Special to the Herald
Back in 1982, director John Hughes made the popular coming-of-age movie called “The Breakfast Club.” It was about teenagers from different backgrounds who bond …
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By BARBARA POLICHETTI
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7/17/24
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Special to the Herald
On July 1, 13-year-old Izzy Major walked out of the Hasbro Children’s Hospital, ringing a golden bell to signal her last day of treatment for leukemia.
She was …
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By ANISHA KUMAR
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7/17/24
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Warwick City Councilwoman Donna Travis pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges that she filed a false document connected to the illicit acquisition of a next-door slice of Oakland Beach …
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Cranston League for Cranston Futures (CLCF) is nearing the finish line of $1.2 million renovations of their main athletic building.
Founded in 1953, CLCF is home to 15 youth sports teams and …
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By RYAN DOHERTY
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7/10/24
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Special to the Herald
Cranston’s electoral races are packed at the starting line.
More than 200 people are running for Cranston offices, including the General Assembly, City Council, …
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By RYAN DOHERTY/Special to the Herald
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7/10/24
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The megalithic building is crawling with little blue robots. The creatures roam, coasting smoothly behind red warning tape strung between steel girders and heavy machinery.
Human overseers watch …
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By RORY SCHULER
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7/9/24
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The holiday ended tragically following a large brawl in Cranston which resulted in a teenager with a stab wound and another man run over and killed.
Shortly after midnight July Fourth, around …
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By RORY SCHULER
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7/8/24
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A month ago, the Thunderbolt Sports Talk podcast — where recent Cranston High School East graduates Timothy Yean and Charlie Adams used to recap the week in school sports — released its …
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By ANISHA KUMAR
Special to the Herald
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7/3/24
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On Saturday, the Cranston Athletic Hall of Fame inducted nine members and two teams during its 2024 ceremony at the Cranston Country Club.
City Councilwoman Nicole Renzulli was among the …
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By ANISHA KUMAR
Special to the Herald
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7/3/24
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