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11/28/2006

Transition team seeks cures for town’s ills
JOHNSTON — A new administration is headed for Town Hall with bold plans for stabilizing the town’s finances and building its tax base.

11/24/2006

Bank balks at financing new town vehicles
JOHNSTON — For the first time, a bank is holding off financing the town’s acquisition of new public safety vehicles, according to Mayor William R. Macera.

11/22/2006

Health-care expenses add to town’s budget woes
JOHNSTON — A string of unforeseen expenses in the town’s self-insured health-care program might have pushed municipal spending over budget by as much as $800,000 during the most recent fiscal year, Mayor William R. Macera said yesterday.

11/21/2006

Macera’s money order put on hold
JOHNSTON — Mayor William R. Macera will not have leeway to borrow money temporarily and use the cash to pay bills.

Double homicide investigation ends with a plea
JOHNSTON — The mysterious daylight murder killing of two men two years ago dropped a major assignment onto the desks of the town’s detectives squad.

11/16/2006

Council negates tax-treaty vote
JOHNSTON — The Town Council is rescinding the tax benefits it gave two large auto dealerships, citing the town’s unresolved deficit and promising to reconsider the tax breaks once the town is on the path to recovery.

11/15/2006

Councilman-elect criticizes vehicle purchases
JOHNSTON — A plan that would commit the town to more than $550,000 in vehicle lease purchases is under scrutiny, grabbing the attention of an incoming councilman.

11/14/2006

300 apartments going up behind Stop & Shop
JOHNSTON — Boom! Boom! Boom!

11/10/2006

School sends ‘Hope’ to Iraq
JOHNSTON — The state flags, scrawled with signatures and messages from local schoolchildren, were hard to miss on the sprawling military base about 300 miles southwest of Baghdad.

11/09/2006

Spending case goes to court
JOHNSTON — The Rhode Island Supreme Court waded into Johnston’s school-budget dispute yesterday.

11/08/2006

Pitochelli overcomes challenge
JOHNSTON — Councilman Ernest F. Pitochelli, a three-term incumbent and a relentless critic of outgoing Mayor William R. Macera, won reelection yesterday, fighting off an aggressive challenge from Democrat Scott J. Scungio, a 38-year-old sheriff’s deputy assigned to District Court, Providence.

Court to decide Caruolo appeal
JOHNSTON — Municipal solicitors are scheduled to face off with School Committee lawyers in Rhode Island Supreme Court today.