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![[CREDIT: Courtesy Photo] Members of Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (C.E.A.S.E. RI) and several unions rallied in the State Capitol May 20 supporting a casino smoking ban bill, which has the support of House Speaker Joe Shekarchi.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Casino-Smoking-Ban-Bill-State-House-Rally-250x228.jpeg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
STATE HOUSE — Members of Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (C.E.A.S.E. RI) and several unions rallied in the State Capitol rotunda May 20 supporting a casino smoking ban bill, protecting […]
![[CREDIT: City of Warwick] The Warwick City Council approved Mayor Frank Picozzi's $380M FY26 budget Thursday, with a few changes that did not affect additional school funds, the bottom line or estimated tax rates.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/FY26-Budget-Council-Schools-Funding-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council voted 8-1 approving Mayor Frank Picozzi’s $380M FY26 budget, with some amendments moving funds from line items into the paving budget, without altering […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The Rhode Island State House is located at 82 Smith St. Providence.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RI-State-House.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
STATE HOUSE — Tuesday, the RI House approved legislation introduced by Rep. Joseph J. Solomon Jr. (D-Dist. 22, Warwick) allowing public utilities to purchase clean, safe nuclear power, at a […]
![[Credit: WP Composite] This week's Warwick Weekend Events include an arts and crafts festival, fundraiser car wash, fundraiser car show, and dinos.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Warwick-Weekend-Events-May-20-2025-250x228.jpeg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
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![[CREDIT: Rob Borklowski] Warwick City Hall on Post Road. The Warwick City Council's first meeting adjusts rules on meeting agendas, moving public comment one item later, and preserves a rule cited in a First Amendment Lawsuit against the Council.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Warwick-City-Hall-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Hours after Warwick Teachers protested outside Warwick City Hall urging officials to increase the Warwick Schools budget, Mayor Frank Picozzi increased school funding to $2.1 million. The […]
COVENTRY, RI — Not long after Suzy Quattrocchi and Town Council members cut the ribbon at Suzy Q’s Summit General, 25 Old Summit Road, more than 100 hungry people from […]
![[CREDIT: WP Composite] This week's Warwick Weekend Events include the Gaspee Days kickoff, pollinator expo, ping pong and a charity car wash.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Warwick-Weekend-Events-May-16-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
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WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police took a knife-wielding man, 64, threatening his neighbors with a knife at 23 Cedar Pond Drive into custody peacefully Thursday night, transferring him to Warwick […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] At right, Acting Superintendent William McCaffrey addresses City Councilman Bill Muto.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Warwick-Schools-FY26-Budget-1-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick School officials reviewed recent progress righting their FY26 budget at a special City Council meeting Wednesday, reiterating the need for $144,994,755 in school funds requested in […]
![[CREDIT: Mayor Picozzi's Office] Warwick Police Chief Col. Brad Connor speaks following his swearing in as the RI Police Chiefs Association President.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/WPD-Chief-Connor-RI-Police-Chiefs-Association-president-2.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — WPD Chief Brad Connor will retire June 29 after 27 years with the Warwick Police Department, Mayor Frank Picozzi announced on his Facebook page today. Remarking that […]
STATE HOUSE — State Senators passed Sen. Mark McKenney‘s (D-Dist. 30, Warwick) Freedom to Read Act Tuesday protecting libraries and patrons from partisan & doctrinal book-banning efforts and affirm the […]
![[WP Composite] From left, Acting Superintendent William McCaffrey and retired Superintendent Lynn Dambruch.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/McCaffrey-Acting-Dambruch-Retires-05-13-25-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI – The School Committee accepted the notice of retirement from Superintendent Lynn Dambruch and named William McCaffrey as Acting Superintendent unanimously Tuesday. Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan, David Testa, […]
Editor’s note: The May 14 Warwick Schools Budget Commission meeting referenced in this article has been cancelled due to members’ scheduling conflicts. WARWICK, RI — The Warwick Schools Budget is […]
![[CREDIT: RI State House] Sen. Peter A. Appollonio Jr. (D-Dist. 29, Warwick)'s bill authorizes the DOH director to approve back-logged license applications.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/RI-Sen.-Peter-appollonio-1-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
STATE HOUSE — The Senate today approved legislation introduced by Sen. Peter A. Appollonio Jr. (D-Dist. 29, Warwick) to address the state’s medical licensing backlog, authorizing the Department of Health […]
![[CREDIT: MHARI] From left, Senate Finance Chairman Louis P. DiPalma and House Environment and Natural Resources Chairman David A. Bennett following the presentation of the Mental Health Association of Rhode Island’s Legislator of the Year awards.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bennett-DiPalma-Mental-Health-Awareness-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
STATE HOUSE — The Mental Health Association of Rhode Island (MHARI) honored House Environment and Natural Resources Chairman David A. Bennett and Senate Finance Chairman Louis P. DiPalma as the […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Lynn Dambruch, director of elementary education, was appointed interim secondary education director duties Jan. 23. She was named assistant superintendent March 3.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Dambruch-School-Committee-Jan-23-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Schools Superintendent Lynn Dambruch, on personal leave since mid-March, is retiring, hinted at in the May 13 Warwick School Committee’s executive session agenda. The executive session […]
PROVIDENCE, RI– Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is urging state leadership to increase RI Medicaid reimbursement after Providence Community Health Centers announced it will lay off 10 percent of its […]
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![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The Warwick Schools Budget Commission after its Wednesday afternoon meeting at the Sawtooth Building. Pictured, from top left to bottom, Ernest Almonte, David Champagne, Angela P. Murray and Sherri Kuntze.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Warwick-School-Budget-Commission-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick Schools Budget Commission wrapped its review of School Department purchasing Wednesday night, hours before Mayor Frank Picozzi sent his proposed $380M FY26 budget, with $194M […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] City Councilman Bill Muto says he's a maybe on a June 2 food truck bid vote.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Muto-Sawtooth-Budget-Commission-Meet-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick City Councilman Bill Muto, recently recovered from food poisoning, says his vote on the Food Truck Bid June 2 is a ‘maybe,’ pending changes to how […]
WARWICK, RI — Monday, Warwick City Councilors and local food truck owners debated the City’s new approach to assigning mobile concession vendors, then held a food truck bid award to […]
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![[CREDIT: ABLTC Foundation] The ABLTC Silent Auction will be held May 8 at May 8, 5:30 to 10:00 p.m. at the Warwick Country Club, 394 Narragansett Bay Ave., Warwick, RI.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ABLTC-Silent-Auction-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The Alliance for Better Long Term Care Foundation – ABLTC Silent Auction will be held May 8, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at the Warwick Country Club, […]
![[CREDIT: Town of Coventry] The Coventry Town Council discusses expanding access to full town solicitor invoices to the entire council and alerting the council when departments exceed budgets by 5 percent.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coventry-Town-Council-April-21-Solicitor-Invoices-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — The Coventry Town Council voted April 22 to expand access to town solicitor invoices to the entire council and to mandate a review when departments threaten to […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council approved seeking a $50 million new high schools bond last week supplementing the $350 million bond for the project. Council asks for New […]
![[CREDIT: RIDOT] The East Avenue I-95N ramp will close May 1 so the RIDOT can perform work to replace the East Avenue bridge, lasting through the fall.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/East-Avenue-I-95N-Ramp-closes-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Starting Friday night, May 2, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) says the Rte. 113 east East Avenue I-95N Ramp Closes for bridge work through the […]
![[CREDIT: Machado] Machado IT, led by 1988 Oaker and veteran Helder Machado, is expanding its Rhode Island operations.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Machado-IT-Solutions-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WORCESTER, MA — Quality IT solutions aren’t just a Fortune 500 concern, a principle Machado IT, led by 1988 Oaker and veteran Helder Machado, has followed as the successful firm […]
![[CREDIT: PPAC] Leandra Ellis-Gaston as Sugar Kane and Matt Loehr as Joe in PPAC's 'Some Like it Hot,' playing through April 27,](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Some-Like-It-Hot--250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE — What surprised me the most about “Some Like It Hot,” the Tony Award winning musical now being performed at Providence Performing Arts Center, is the layers of emotional […]
![[CREDIT: Sen. Reed] U.S. Sens Jack Reed & Sheldon Whitehouse and U.S. Rep Seth Magaziner joined Mayor Frank Picozzi, Fire Chief Peter McMichael, and Warwick firefighters to launch 72 new self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) units.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Reed-Whitehouse-Magaziner-WFD-SCBA-Units-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — After delivering a $1 million in federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG), U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Seth Magaziner helped the Warwick Fire […]
![[CREDIT: CSPAN] After confirmation by the U.S. Senate in a tie breaking vote of 51-50, President Donald Trump's pick to serve as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was sworn in by Vice President JD Vance Saturday, Jan. 25.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hegseth-U.S.-Secretary-of-Defense-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faces a second report, by the New York Times, of his unsecure Signal App transmissions about fighter jet strikes in Yemen to […]
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Islanders in Providence and Westerly joined nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protests against the Musk – Trump Coup, filling the State House grounds marching down Francis Street Saturday, […]
![[CREDIT: Cat Laine] From left, Jeff Church and Marc Pierre trade jabs in the Gamm's production of Hamlet.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Gamm-Hamlet-9-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI – The Gamm Theatre concludes their 40th season with Shakespeare’s quintessential tragedy “Hamlet.” Director Tony Estrella has crafted an electrifying production featuring a slew of first rate performances. […]
WARWICK, RI — Friday, the Rhode Island Department Transportation (RIDOT) reports Warwick lanes shifted to the right for road work where I-95 North and Route 4 North merge in Warwick. […]
![CREDIT: Tow of Coventry] Expanding solicitor invoices access doesn't make them more open to public access, a laywer points out.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coventry-Town_hall-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Coventry Dist. 1 Councilman Jonathan Pascua’s legislation expanding redacted solicitor invoices access to all Council members still leaves the confidential information protected as an exemption to the […]
![[CREDIT: WPS] The Warwick School Committee OK'd a $198M School Budget April 17. The budget must now be reviewed by the Warwick Schools Budget Commission.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Warwick-School-Committee-School-Budget-04-17-25-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick School Committee approved its proposed $198,162,060 FY26 budget Thursday, with school budget cuts of $3 million in salaries that were not specified, in a 3 […]
WARWICK, RI — Mayor Frank Picozzi’s three appointees to the Warwick Schools Budget Commission, dated April 9, are now public in Warwick City Council documents released with the agenda for […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The U.S. Court in Providence. A Providence man will be sentenced July 24 for his admitted part in a Land Rover credit fraud scheme in RI & NH.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/US-Courthouse-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE – A former employee of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Middletown, Rhode Island appeared in U.S. District Court in Providence Tuesday, charged with transmitting a threat in interstate […]
![[CREDIT: Town of Coventry] Bob Brennan, Coventry resident who served on the town’s charter review commission, reiterated Angell’s repeated warnings at previous meetings against allowing all Council members access to unredacted solicitor invoices.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Solicitor-Invoices-April-8-Bob-Brennan-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
COVENTRY, RI — Two resigned Town Councilmen missed a lot of drama about their mission to give all councilors un-redacted solicitor invoices April 8 and more explanations about what a bad […]
STATE HOUSE — The Senate today approved legislation that would protect employees’ workplace First Amendment rights to refuse mandatory meetings. The bill (2025-S 0126A), introduced by Sen. Matthew L. LaMountain […]
![[CREDIT: WP Composite] Warwick weekend events include dinos at Roger Williams Park, Open Studios and Improve at the WCFA and skating.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Warwick-Weekend-Events-April-9-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
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