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![[CREDIT: Vanessa Baker] House Speaker Joe Shekarchi (D- Dist. 23, Warwick) signs the Casino smoking ban bill March 20 at the State House.](data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAPoAAADkAQAAAACZSwR7AAAAAnRSTlMAAHaTzTgAAAAeSURBVFjD7cGBAAAAAMOg+VNf4QBVAQAAAAAAAPAaHWQAAUjam4AAAAAASUVORK5CYII=)
Casino Smoking Ban Winning Broad Support
STATE HOUSE — A week after members of Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (C.E.A.S.E. RI) and unions rallied in the State Capitol backing a casino smoking ban, the bill remains […]
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Coventry Community Events May 30: Goats, Fish, Sing
Your event’s not here? You probably didn’t enter it into our calendar. Add your event to make sure we don’t miss it, then e-mail editor@warwickpost.com to give us a heads-up. […]
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Warwick Weekend May 30: Duck Race, Concert
Your event’s not here? You probably didn’t enter it into our calendar. Add your event to make sure we don’t miss it, then e-mail editor@warwickpost.com to give us […]
![[CREDIT: Vanessa Baker] House Speaker Joe Shekarchi (D- Dist. 23, Warwick) signs the Casino smoking ban bill March 20 at the State House.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Shekarchi-Casino-Smoking-Ban-Bill-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
![[Credit: WP Composite] This week's Coventry Community Events in Coventry, RI include karaoke, a fishing tournament, a farmers market, and goats.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Coventry-community-events-CP-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
![[Credit: WP Composite] This week's Warwick Weekend Events include a duck race, farmers markets, a concert, and dinos.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Warwick-weekend-CP-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
Business
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Casino Smoking Ban Bill Supporters Rally at State House
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 […]
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Suzy Q’s Summit General Opens
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 […]
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RI Senate OKs Medical Licensing Backlog Bill
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: 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)
![[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)
Schools
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Committee OKs 15 Teacher Layoffs, $1.9M Cuts Remain
WARWICK, RI — The School Committee approved 15 teacher layoffs Tuesday on a 4-1 vote, which still leaves the district with a $1.9 million FY26 deficit. The district’s FY26 budget […]
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BBBS RI: Natural Mentors Pack Powerful Influence
 RHONDA LAPHAM Market President, iHeartMedia Providence & Board Member, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island May is a time of change and growth. Students are wrapping up the school […]
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Council OKs $380M FY26 Budget, $196M for Schools
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] A list of Warwick Teachers Union related reductions proposed to help meet the Warwick Schools FY26 deficit, including teacher layoffs.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Warwick-Schools-FY26-Budget-WTU-reductions-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
![[CREDIT: Rhonda Lapham] From left, Lapham's mother, who was one of her natural mentors and Lapham herself.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/BBBS-Lapham-Mother-Natural-Mentors-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
![[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)
All Politics are Local
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RI ‘Hands Off!’ Protestors: ‘Ho-Ho, Donald Trump Has Got to Go!’
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Islanders in four Ocean State locations were among millions nationwide turning out for ‘Hands Off!’ protests against the Musk – Trump Coup seizing Congressional powers, defying […]
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Tassoni: Cannabis Profits Should Aid Overdose Prevention, Education & TreatmentÂ
Where does the money from Rhode Island’s cannabis sales go? As President and CEO at The Leadership Council for Substance Abuse and Mental Health of Rhode Island, I would like to […]
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You’re Not Alone: Trump Coup Opposition Is Growing
The President Donald J. Trump Coup is angling for Congress’s Constitutional spending power, ignoring Judicial independence, dismantling federal agencies, and claimed the punchline from French surrender jokes by handing Russia […]
![[CREDIT: Jeni Luther] Thousands of people swelled the streets in Providence April 5 to tell the Musk -Trump Coup to take their hands off Americans' freedoms, security, voting rights, Medicare, Social Security and powers not granted in the U.S. Constitution during the national Hands Off protest.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Providence-Hands-Off-Protest-3-April-5-2025-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
![[CREDIT: Women Forward] On March 1, the Women Forward grassroots political action group hosted a Livestream roundtable discussion with Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) & Rob Shriver, former Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) discussing opposition to the Trump Coup.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Women-Forward-Raskin-Trump-Coup-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
Police and Fire
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Trooper Log – 7 Warwick Arrests: Child Abuse, Assault, DUI
WARWICK, RI — Warwick arrests in the Warwick RI Trooper Log May 23- involved DUI arrests on the highway and local roads, a man wanted for assault, and violating a no-contact […]
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Red Cross, WFD, Aid Family After Kilvert Street Fire
WARWICK, RI — The American Red Cross is helping a family of four adults after a 157 Kilvert Street fire in the building’s basement, quickly extinquished by Warwick firefighters. The […]
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WPD Charges Negansett Ave. Man for Killing Animals, Assault
WARWICK, RI— On May 27, Warwick Police responded to 200 Negansett Ave. following a 911 hang-up call, finding a combative 30-year-old man, the only person there, a dead parrot and […]
![[CREDIT: American Red Cross RI] RI American Red Cross volunteers aided two families after a Francis Street Fire Friday, March 22, 2024.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/American-Red-Cross-RI.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
![[CREDIT: WPD] Warwick Police have charged Gast with killing animals maliciously, animal cruelty, and assault after he called 911 on himself.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Gast-killing-animals-assault-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)