Driver Pleads Not Guilty, Vacant House Mystery, HS Principal Speaks Up

Raving About Disapproving Drivers; Ranting About Mail Dumping

RAVE: This is a personal thank you to the sixty-something couple who distracted me when we were both stopped at that red light on Division that feeds the Route 4 traffic. Our cars were side by side when I noticed them gesticulating wildly and shouting.

Amanda Ashman of Glocester pleaded not guilty Friday in Kent County Superior Court to eight counts, including five felony charges, in connection with a hit-and-run that injured two people on Main Street Feb. 20.

The EG drug program saw 100 youths (under age 18) in the 12 months from July 2012 through June 2013, for issues split pretty evenly between alcohol, drugs and mental health, according to drug counselor Bob Houghtaling. That's down from 122 a year ago, but just a bit lower when looking at the three-year average.

No one showed up at East Greenwich Town Hall Thursday, Aug. 1, to take advantage of the new law in Rhode Island allowing same sex couples to marry.

It's no surprise Save the Bay chose Warwick's Oakland Beach as the setting for its press conference on the dramatic rise in beach closures this summer. With 27 closures so far this year, Oakland Beach is the veritable poster child for beach closures.

Soul Liberty is a concept we in Rhode Island should be proud of. Roger Williams felt there were ideas, values and concepts individuals possessed that should be protected from the law by the law (also from the church). In many ways Williams guaranteed Freedom of Thought more than a century before Freedom of Speech came into play. Unfortunately there are institutions today that seek to limit Freedom of Thought.

You know this house. It’s the large white one on the right as you drive into town on Division Street, just before the First Avenue split – number 506. There are large tree limbs blocking one side of the crescent-shaped driveway, limbs that fell during the blizzard last February. Why is it in such a derelict state?

Emmanuel – Mel – Bautista looks around his small office at Frenchtown Baptist Church and sighs. So many books to pack or give away. In 17 years as minister at the church, Bautista is leaving. His wife has taken a new job in Virginia.

I hope the Town Council in East Greenwich will look beyond the latest shabby trick the East Greenwich firefighters union leadership has pulled and recognize it for what it is. The vote of no confidence for the fire chief orchestrated by the union leadership is nothing more than a cheap shot at the chief and a ploy in the current negotiations. Taxpayers in East Greenwich should be grateful to have a dedicated and passionate Chief like Peter Henrikson.

On July 2, 2013, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) released school classifications using a new system. The new system, revamped according to RIDE website “... comes out of a request for “flexibility” regarding some of the provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA also known as No Child Left Behind orNCLB),” and it placed East Greenwich High School into a category of “Warning.”