Archive - 2011
December 29th
KINGSTON – A long time employee of the University of Rhode Island’s Providence campus has been charged with stealing more than $475,000 in tuition and fees from the University over the course of six years.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
KINGSTON—It is difficult for local communities, where successful healthcare and access to up-to-date medicines are common, to comprehend the daily struggle of men and women who are threatened by the HIV/AIDS virus. When speaking with members of the public about this global epidemic, Dr. Annie DeGroot, Director of the Institute for Immunology and Information at the University of Rhode Island, can provide statistics, yet does not believe such an approach is effective.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
December 28th
Do you believe firefighters should be forced to work 24-hour shifts?
That question is at the heart of a proposal by North Kingstown Town Manager Michael Embury and, this week, the Standard Times brings you all the latest news regarding the town's decision to try to force the schedule change on the fire department.
What would the change mean to the department? How much money would be saved?
Find out all that and much, much more in this week's Standard Times.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
In today's paper, we have a story on how one Chariho native has become a best-selling novelist.
With the town's applications to erect a wall in Matunuck and to reclassify the waters coming up at the CRMC, Carpenters Beach Meadows will hold a meeting Jan. 7 to discuss erosion.
We also have one story where URI professors are working with the GAIA Foundation to rid the world of AIDS.
All and more inside, today's Narragansett Times.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
December 27th
On December 15th Defense Secretary Leon Panetta presided over a ceremony in which the colors (flag) of the American forces in Iraq were “cased”. The following day the state’s daily newspaper proclaimed “WAR OVER” in huge type on page one.
I wonder how the parents of Army Spc. David E. Hickman, 23, of Greensboro, NC feel. Specialist Hickman died in Baghdad on November 14th of injuries caused by an “IED” -an improvised explosive device. He is the last American to die in the official war in Iraq.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
TUBA CITY, Ariz. - When John Christian Hopkins was a young child he would clutch a book when he slept at night, and when he was a student at Chariho High School in the 1970’s, he would skip class to read books at the library.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
December 26th
By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard
EXETER – Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer does, in fact, have a very shiny nose. It is made of the largest size red gazing ball typically found on pedestals in flower gardens.
Since October, this particular deer, perched in a Large and In Charge fashion in the field next to Schartner Farm on South Country Trail, has had several incarnations. Made of huge bales of hay – both rolled and rectangular – it was a witch for Halloween and a Pilgrim for Thanksgiving.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
CHARLESTOWN - The Rhode Island Dept. of Environmental Management (DEM) has agreed to begin writing new regulations regarding waste water treatment that will be aimed at protecting local salt ponds and lessening financial burdens for homeowners looking to renovate.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
December 25th
By ANTHONY aRUSSO
aarusso@ricentral.com
CHARLESTOWN - The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has agreed to begin writing new regulations regarding waste water treatment that will be aimed at protecting local salt ponds and lessening financial burdens for homeowners wanting to renovate.
The agreement was made as the result of a meeting between DEM officials and state legislators called by State Rep. Donna Walsh (D-36). Representatives Teresa Tanzi (D-34) and Spencer Dickinson (D-35) took part in the discussions.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
December 24th
The person whose story I’m telling today is not someone local or even anyone you know, but he was very dear to me.
Today’s column is about my father, Clyde E. Smith, an Appalachian farm boy and unlikely soldier who was drafted into World War II at the age of 30, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Today would have been his 100th birthday.
Dad was the last of four children born in Halleck, an unincorporated West Virginia outpost with a tiny church, cemetery and school surrounded by sprawling family farms where men worked themselves and their children nearly to death.
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Southern Rhode Island Newspapers
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