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![[CREDIT: WP Composite] Coventry voters have chosen Greg Mars, left and Mia Iannotti, right, as the Council representatives for Dist. 5 and Dist. 4, respectively. Each ran unopposed, though Iannotti supported resigned Dist. 5 Councilman Scott Copley's write-in campaign against Mars. Copley faces a charge of threatening a public official in Kent County Superior Court Feb. 25.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Coventry-Special-Election-Iannotti-Mars-250x228.jpg)
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![[CREDIT: Town of Coventry] Assistant Town Manager Maria Broadbent updated the Council on sewer work requiring a CHS sewer detour, where Council members requested CPD details.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Town-Council-CHS-Sewer-Detour-Details-10-14-25-250x228.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — Tuesday night, Town Council members said CPD details for the CHS sewer detour should be part of the plan during the Coventry High School Sewer project, requiring […]
![[CREDIT: Town of Coventry] The Town Council added votes to remove Council President Hilary Lima and Town Solicitor Stephen Angell from their positions for the Oct. 14 meeting during the Sept. 24 meeting.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Coventry-Town-Council-Sept.-24-2025-250x228.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — The Town Council added votes on removing President Hilary Lima and Solicitor Stephen Angell to its Oct. 14 agenda during their Tuesday night meeting. The Council also […]
![[CREDIT: Houle] Richard Houle is running for the Coventry Dist. 3 seat in the Special Election Tuesday, Aug. 5.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Richard-Houle-Dist.-3-Special-Election-250x228.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — Tuesday, Richard Houle, 39, of 73 Puritan Ave., real estate broker and the sole Coventry Dist. 3 candidate in the special election, aims to continue the fiduciary […]
![[CREDIT: Scott Copley for Dist. 5] Scott Copley, is running in the Coventry Dist. 5 Race.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Scott-Copley-Coventry-Dist.5-Race-250x228.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — The RI Attorney General’s office reported former Coventry Dist. 5 Town Councilman Scott Copley indicted by a Statewide Grand Jury Wednesday for threatening a public official, Council […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Solicitor Stephen Angell tells the April 8 Town Council crowd that he reported Councilman Scott Copley's threat to "skull fuck" Council President Hilary Lima.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Scott-Copley-Skull-Fuck-Threat-250x228.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — An investigation into a reported March 21 threat by former Coventry Dist. 5 Town Councilman Scott Copley against Council President Hilary Lima with the RI Attorney General’s […]
![CREDIT: Tow of Coventry] Expanding solicitor invoices access doesn't make them more open to public access, a laywer points out.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coventry-Town_hall-250x228.jpg)
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: 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://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Solicitor-Invoices-April-8-Bob-Brennan-250x228.jpg)
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 […]
COVENTRY, RI — During Tuesday’s Coventry Town Council meeting discussing two councilmen’s resignations, Solicitor Stephen Angel told an angry crowd that one of those two, Dist. 5 Councilman Scott Copley, […]
![[CREDIT: WP Composite] A dispute over redacted invoices from the Town Solicitor has resulted in two empty seats as the Coventry Town Councilmen resign. From left, Dist. 3 Councilman James LeBlanc and Dist. 5 Councilman Scott Copley.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coventry-Town-Councilmen-Resign-250x228.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — Tomorrow’s Coventry Town Council meeting will be short Dist. 3 and and Dist. 5 representatives after the two Town Councilmen resigned Monday, protesting stonewalled attempts to access […]
COVENTRY, RI —The Coventry Town Council unanimously passed a resolution urging the General Assembly to enact legislation authorizing town Coventry Schools deficit oversight. In a statement about the resolution from […]
![[CREDIT: Verducci for Coventry Town Council] John Paul, "JP Verducci, a candidate in the Coventry At-Large Council race.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Verducci-Coventry-Town-Council-250x228.jpeg)
COVENTRY, RI — John-Paul “JP” Verducci, lifelong Coventry resident, associate director for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, decided on his Coventry At-Large Council race run after experiencing the town’s poor […]
![[CREDIT: Brown for At-Large Council] Frank Brown, Hopkins Hill Fire Chief, retiring in March, is running in the Coventry At-Large Council race.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Brown-Coventry-Town-Council-Race-250x228.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — Frank Brown, lifelong Coventry resident and Hopkins Hill Fire Chief for nearly 50 years, retiring March 2025, entered the Coventry At-Large Council race to continue serving the […]
![[CREDIT: James LeBlanc] At far right, Town Councilman Jonathan Pascua photographs the entry of town personnel into the pump house at Johnson's Pond & Dam June 28, 2024.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Coventry-Owns-Johnsons-Pond-Dam-300x225.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — This morning, the condemnation and taking of Johnson’s Pond & Dam by eminent domain was approved and certified in Superior Court, placing the 216 acre property in […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Coventry Town Solicitor and Law Department Head Stephen J. Angell points the the Soscia Holdings parcel including Johnson's Pond Dam and the access area to it, which the town will take by eminent domain for $157,000.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Johnsons-Pond-Taking-Council-Meeting-06-20-2024-300x225.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — Soscia Holdings LLC rebuffed Coventry’s $1.5 million offer for the 216 acre Johnson’s Pond property, so Friday the town begins taking Johnson’s Pond & Dam, and associated […]
![[CREDIT: Town of Coventry] The Coventry Town Council passed the $121M Coventry FY25 Budget May 7.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Coventry-FY25-Budget-300x225.jpg)
COVENTRY, RI — The Town Council unanimously passed a $121M Coventry FY25 budget Tuesday night with a $994K capital budget and a 2.78 percent, $2.1 million Coventry Schools funding increase. […]
