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The City has voted in Mayor Scott Avedisian for another term, elected three new Democrats to the City Council, incumbent Karen Bachus and newcomer David Testa to the School Committee, and sent Councilwoman Camille Vella-Wilkinson and newcomer Evan Shanley to the General Assembly. all while backing Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.
Voting was off to a brisk and well-organized start right off the bat during the first hour of voting, a trend that continued through the morning and into the early afternoon.
There’s one day left till the 2016 election of candidates local, state and presidential — here’s what you need to know before the big day about the weather, the polls, and the candidates.
Camille Vella-Wilkinson hadn’t been planning to run for the General Assembly at the end of her fourth year on the Warwick City Council, but she realized a number of challenges councillors faced could be eased with a strong voice representing Warwick in the State House.
WARWICK, RI — Evan Shanley, 30, of Viceroy Road, life-long Warwick resident and attorney with the Gursky Weins law firm since 2013, is seeking to represent Warwick Dist. 24 seat […]
WARWICK, RI — Rick Cascella, 54, of Yale Avenue, a real estate agent with Williams & Stuart Real Estate, was a resident of the city for 53 years before deciding […]
WARWICK, RI — Richard Corley, 60, of Algonquin Drive, a criminal defense attorney for 30 years and Warwick resident for most his life, has served on the Warwick Zoning Board for six, and hopes […]
High School students from Bishop Hendricken, Toll Gate and Piligrim High Schools leveled questions at Warwick’s two mayoral candidates Friday night in Council Chambers at City Hall, touching on topics including airport expansion, school consolidation and accountability, quality of life, the economy, taxes and the budget.
WARWICK — A few items Warwick readers may find intriguing as the week winds down: Police want your drugs, and the Board of  Canvassers needs your help volunteering during the […]
Danny Hall, 34 a resident of Lewiston Street, has lived in Warwick his whole life, is running for School Committee this year to bring accountability and transparency to the board.
School Committeewoman Karen Bachus, 53, of Burt Street, an outspoken member of the board since 2012 who notably joined Warwick City Council efforts to disclose the publicly-paid Ragosta Report to the community, has lived in Warwick for the last 20 years, and hopes to serve another four years with the body.
Dean Johnson, 39, of Essex Road, lifelong Warwick resident and Army vet, ran for School Committee the first time in 2014 to make tough calls on School Consolidation, and hopes for a chance to take a shot at straightening out the re-organization of students and buildings two years later.
David Testa, 53, of Narragansett Parkway, a Warwick citizen since 1992 and category manager for Gordon Food Service, has kids in Warwick Schools, IEP experience, and 15 years of careful study of the district behind his bid for one of two contested seats on the Warwick School Committee Nov. 8.
Local businessman Michael Underwood has served as a decorated US Coast Guard officer (retired in 2009), then volunteering at Aldrich Jr. High and Make a Wish, and he’s aiming to continue as Warwick’s representative in Dist. 21, pledging independence from SpeakerNicholas Mattiello’s General Assembly leadership.
Rob Cote, a regular critic of Mayor Scott Avedisian’s administration, city finances and the Warwick Fire Department, has alerted Warwick Police to the latest in a series of harassing letters he claims come from a city staffer, a charge the Mayor says he’s made difficult to verify by failing to provide detectives with access to the envelopes.
A meager showing of state primary voters has ousted incumbents Dist. 30 Senator William Walaska and Dist. 21 State Rep. Eileen Naughton, the latter in favor of an ebullient Camille Vella Wilkinson, the current City Councilor for Dist. 3.
At the polling place at Heritage Christian Fellowship Church on Warwick Neck Avenue polling officials said turn out had been steady up to 11 a.m.
How has Warwick’s business climate changed over the past few years? This is a question that Democratic candidate Richard Corrente has answered by claiming that the city has “lost” more than 4,600 businesses in 10 years under Mayor Scott Avedisian.
Incumbent Republican Mayor Scott Avedisian has outraised Democratic challenger Richard Corrente in campaign donations, but Corrente has kept pace by self-funding his run for the top local seat in Warwick, a review of their respective campaign finance reports has found.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly listed two School Committee races among those that will be decided in the September primary. Warwick Post regrets, and has corrected, […]
WARWICK, R.I. — Richard Corrente, the self-described Democrat running against Mayor Scott Avedisian this year, would have done well to remember the basics of campaigning: Attacks only work as long as they can be proven.
Ward 1 City Councilman Steven A. Colantuono announced on Friday that he won’t run for a ninth term, endorsing Richard H. Cascella, Jr. in his place, with the support of the Ward 1 Republican Committee and Mayor Scott Avedisian.
Assuming all the candidates who made the June 30 declaration deadline collect the signatures needed to be on the ballot for the Sept. 13 primary and Nov. 8 election, there will be 27 contested races this election season, with 15 primary contests.
Warwick, RI  — Warwick Police are asking the public’s help apprehending the man who stole and broke a camera during the rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump April 25 […]
State Troopers have arrested a Warwick man and Providence man on assault and disorderly conduct charges following a scuffle started after the latter spit at the former outside presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rally at Crowne Plaza Hotel on Greenwich Avenue April 25.
Warwick, RI — A large turnout of voters in the city backed Presidential anti-establishment candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and businessman Donald Trump for the Democrat and Republican tickets respectively Tuesday […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] An I voted sticker from the 2016 Presidential Primary. The deadline to request a mail-in ballot for the Sept. 8 state primary is Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/I-voted-sticker--e1461713596446-140x140.jpg)
Voter turnout in Warwick for the 2016 Presidential Preference Primary by 5 p.m. was on track to rival the 2008 primary, when 33.5 percent of city voters helped decide Commander in Chief contenders Barack Obama and John McCain.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rally at Crowne Plaza drew a long line of supporters that stretched from front to the back of the hotel Monday morning, many of whom expressed distrust of establishment politicians.
The US Secret Service kept most of the few hundred gathered to greet Republican presidential nominee candidate Donald Trump across the street, but when his motorcade drove up, the crowd rushed across the street and down the long drive toward Crowne Plaza Hotel on Greenwich Avenue.
Front-running Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will rally in Warwick Monday afternoon at Crowne Plaza Hotel at 801 Greenwich Ave.
Warwick, RI — GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich’s mathematically impossible delegate path to the Republican nomination for president doesn’t faze the members of his RI leadership team, who hope to prevail […]
Warwick, R.I. — Former President Bill Clinton visited CCRI’s Knight Campus Thursday to stump for his wife, former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, outlining her approach to […]
Students, press and political junkies began gathering hours ahead of former President Bill Clinton’s visit to CCRI’s Knight Campus to stump for his wife, former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Former President Bill Clinton will visit the Community College of RI’s Knight Campus in Warwick Thursday, to campaign for Hillary Clinton’s Democratic nomination run, and you can RSVP at her campaign website.
Warwick, RI — City offices are closed Friday through the Sunday, March 27, the deadline to deadline to register to vote in the 2016 Presidential primaries in RI April 26, but […]
