Committee Cuts Keep Math Interventionists, Teacher Assistants, Mentors in $174.4M Budget
City Council Honors RI Principal of the Year Patricia Cousineau
Committee Aims to Add Math Interventionists, Teacher Assistants, Mentoring to Budget
Committee IDs Potential Cuts to Proposed $174M Warwick Schools Budget
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![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] RI Principal of the Year Patricia Cousineau was honored by the Warwick City Council Monday.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Cousineau-Video-Still-140x140.png)
City Council Honors RI Principal of the Year Patricia Cousineau
WARWICK, RI — Councilman Ed Ladouceur called Warwick Nick Principal Patricia Cousineau to the front of Council Chambers during Monday’s meeting to publicly congratulate her for winning the 2019 RI […]
DEM: Rocky Point Pier Construction Starts This May
WARWICK, RI – Construction of a new $1.8 million timber fishing pier at Rocky Point State Park, performed by ACK Marine & General Contracting LLC of Quincy, MA will begin […]
Council OKs Building Permit Scofflaw Penalties, Zoning Changes
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council approved all four items up for second passage Monday night, setting penalties for construction without building permits and making two zoning changes. Now, […]
Business
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Mark Harold, grocery clerk at the Warwick Avenue Stop & Shop in Warwick, and K.D. Sabaria, front end manager at the store, wave to passing motorists honking in support of the striking workers Tuesday.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/StopShop-Strike-April-2019-5-140x140.jpg)
Stop & Shop, UFCW Reach Tentative Deal, End Strike
PROVIDENCE — Sunday night, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and Stop & Shop announced a tentative agreement on a new contract for 31,000 Stop & Shop workers following a 10-day […]
![[CREDIT: Joe Hutnak] The Easter Bunny is at Warwick Mall this week.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Easter-Bunny-Warwick-Mall-140x140.jpg)
Easter Bunny Appearances Through April 21
WARWICK — If you’re looking for a nice way to mark the spring season this year, Warwick Mall, 400 Bald Hill Road, is hosting the Easter Bunny through April 20, but […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] From left, Richard Miller, steward for Local UFCW 328, and John Ardente, a grocery clerk, at the 2470 Warwick Ave. Stop & Shop strike Tuesday.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/StopShop-Strike-April-2019-3-140x140.jpg)
Stop & Shop Strike May Cut Sales Long-Term
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with information from Stop & Shop on health care deductibles offered to employees by the company. WARWICK —Last week, United Food and Commercial […]
Schools
![[CREDIT: File Photo] Warwick Veterans Jr. High School at 2401 W Shore Road.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Warwick-Veterans-School-200x150.jpg)
Committee Cuts Keep Math Interventionists, Teacher Assistants, Mentors in $174.4M Budget
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick School Committee cut several line items from Superintendent Philip Thornton’s FY20 budget Thursday night at Warwick Veterans Middle School, making room to restore 6.5 math […]
Committee Aims to Add Math Interventionists, Teacher Assistants, Mentoring to Budget
WARWICK, RI — Warwick School Committee members agreed on restoring $539,000 for 6.5 math interventionists, $500,000 for 10 teacher assistants and $100,000 in mentor funding Wednesday night, adding $1,139,000 to […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The first slide of a series of budget presentations Tuesday, April 23 at Warwick Veterans Memorial School.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Warwick-School-Budget-Heaing-April-23-1-140x140.jpg)
Committee IDs Potential Cuts to Proposed $174M Warwick Schools Budget
WARWICK, RI — As Warwick School Committee members considered how they might cut as much as $8.5 million from Superintendent Philip Thornton’s FY20 $174.4 million budget, postponing Title XI locker […]
All Politics are Local
Reed, Langevin Seek Mueller Testimony Following Special Counsel’s Redacted Report
WARWICK — Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election meddling contradicts Attorney General William Barr’s summarizing claim that the report shows no attempt by President Donald Trump to obstruct […]
Warwick Rallies for Federal Workers During Shutdown
WARWICK, RI — A few days past the point of the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, Warwick neighbors rallied to aid families of government employees as the state’s […]
Whitehouse: Nation Reckons With Sexual Assault Survivors’ Stories
TO THE EDITOR: “The past few weeks have been doubly difficult,” she wrote. As a United States Senator, Rhode Islanders write to me every day weighing in on different policies […]
House and Home
Matt Patty Team Hosts Thanksgiving Pie Giveaway
CRANSTON, RI — This Thanksgiving, The Matt Patty team launched their first annual pie giveaway for past and current clients. The real estate agency gave away 30 pies, apple and pumpkin, to past […]
Patty: Housing Market May Be Nearing Crossroads
For the last several years, increasing home prices for sellers and low interest rates for buyers have created a historically positive housing market, but mixed metrics in the local and […]
Patty: Spring Real Estate Market Creating Rush of Sellers
The Spring Real Estate Market has sprung, and we are starting to see that rush of new listings and excited buyers and sellers, particularly in the upper middle and higher end markets.