Candidates forum tonight

PROVIDENCE — Residents will have a chance to meet the candidates for four open positions on the School Board at a forum tonight in the Public Safety Complex, 325 Washington St.

The 7 p.m. forum is designed to give the 12 candidates an opportunity to share their views on education and for the School Board Nominating Commission and the public to learn more about them.

The pool of applicants includes a School Board incumbent, Katherine McKenzie, whose three-year term is about to expire. The other candidates are Jenny Tapia Rosario, of 17 Kentland Ave.; Robin Ringer, of 499 Elmgrove Ave.; Melissa Malone, of 555 South Main St.; Stephanie Jones Pringle, of 63 Beaufort St.; Jill Davidson, of 35 Elmway St.; Brian Lalli, of 11 Fifth St.; Ralph Salvatore, of 776 Mount Pleasant Ave.; Kathleen Crain, of 77 Blackstone Blvd.; Megaly Sanchez, of 1 Lillian Ave.; Tammy L. Jackson, of 384 Pine St.; and Linda Robinson, of 251 Sayles St.

At the conclusion of the screening process, the four-member nominating commission will recommend finalists to Mayor David N. Cicilline, who will make the appointments.

— Linda Borg

Airplane wreckage probed

SMITHFIELD — The wreckage of the single-engine plane that crashed in a wooded area off Clark Road on Monday, killing both men aboard, was transported yesterday to what had been its destination, North Central State Airport.

James J. Warcup, an aeronautics inspector for the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, said inspectors will spend the next couple of days taking apart the engine to try to figure out what caused the accident.

Representatives of the Federal Aeronautics Administration, the manufacturer of the Piper Tomahawk and the insurance carrier spent part of the morning examining the tail, wings and fuselage.

Robert A. Zoglio Jr., 43, of Richmond, and Ronald Tetreault, 64, of Glocester, died when the plane crashed and exploded in a small clearing about 1,000 feet off the road. The NTSB is expected to issue a report on the cause of the crash in six months to a year.

— Staff report