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11/28/2006

Board of Licenses fines restaurant, bar
PROVIDENCE — The city Board of Licenses has fined a Downcity restaurant and a South Providence nightclub for infractions of state and municipal laws, one of which involved the restaurant illegally using an upstairs space for a party.

Road rage charge prompts suspension
PROVIDENCE — A city parks supervisor arrested for an alleged road rage incident last week has been suspended without pay while the city conducts an investigation. Robert Kazarian, 51, of Johnston, was on duty and driving a Providence parks truck last Tuesday when he allegedly punched the driver of a car stopped in front of him on Dean Street at Kinsley Avenue.

Metro Notes
Blood drives: The Rhode Island Blood Center has scheduled the following blood drives:

Moneyline: Drug plan's penalty adds up
Q: If you don’t sign up for prescription [drug coverage under Medicare when you’re first eligible], when you do want to do it later on, when you think you need the medicine, they charge you a penalty. All right? It’s very annoying. –S.C., Providence A: The penalty is an important point to keep in mind when you’re deciding whether to sign up for a prescription drug plan under the federal Medicare health insurance program.

11/27/2006

ROBERT MARRO, LAWYER IN THE DEFENDER COMMUNITY ADVOCACY PROGRAM
The young man before District Court Judge Michael A. Higgins was arrested for tampering with a motor vehicle and held overnight at the Adult Correctional Institutions. Robert Marro soon learns that something more is going on with his client, whom he has just met for the first time. Marro runs the Defender Community Advocacy Program, which works out of the Rhode Island Public Defender’s office to offer indigent clients on-the-spot assistance at their arraignments, including addressing possible problems with alcohol or drug addiction, physical abuse or mental illness.

Driver charged with assault
PROVIDENCE — A man was charged with assaulting a Massachusetts state trooper and leading the police on a 4-mile car chase Saturday night.

11/26/2006

Cost of Route 195 project has more than doubled since 1993
PROVIDENCE — The cost of Rhode Island’s biggest highway project, the Route 195 relocation, has ballooned since the plan was announced more than a decade ago, outrunning state predictions, inflation and the state’s ability to pay for it without unprecedented and expensive borrowing.

Gas odor closes Providence intersections
PROVIDENCE — A gas main on Cushing Street broke last night, prompting the evacuation of a multifamily home on Hope Street, a National Grid spokeswoman said.

Cost of Route 195 project has more than doubled since 1993
PROVIDENCE -- The cost of Rhode Island's biggest highway project, the Route 195 relocation, has ballooned since the plan was announced more than a decade ago, outrunning state predictions, inflation and the state's ability to pay for it without...

11/25/2006

City parks worker charged in road rage incident
PROVIDENCE — The city police have charged an employee of the Parks Department with felony assault as the result of an apparent incident of road rage.

City gives shoppers a break for holidays
PROVIDENCE — The season for relaxed holiday parking restrictions has begun in Providence, as the city once again tries to lure shoppers to prime retail locations.

Police identify man shot on Eddy St.
PROVIDENCE – The police yesterday identified a man who was shot outside a restaurant on Eddy Street on Wednesday night.

11/24/2006

Families with ailing babies share a special Thanksgiving meal
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Residents oppose housing complex on Broad Street
PROVIDENCE — When some residents of Upper South Providence heard that a nonprofit developer was hoping to build affordable rental apartments on an abandoned lot at Reservoir and Broad Streets, they cringed.

Teen gang member charged in drug case
PROVIDENCE —A federal grand jury has charged an 18-year-old member of the Providence Street Boyz with trafficking in cocaine. The police seized a handgun when they arrested Junior Ry in August.

Metro Religion news
Temple Beth-el: A healing service for those of all faiths who have been touched by AIDS will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Temple Beth-El Meeting Hall, 70 Orchard Ave.

Metro Notes
La Salle Academy: An entrance exam will be held on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 8 a.m. at 612 Academy Ave.

Charter School Activities

Families with ailing babies share a special Thanksgiving meal
PROVIDENCE -- The four families at the candlelit table yesterday barely knew one another. Most in the gathering had met just moments before sitting down.

11/23/2006

Providence fire chief, hired in ’04, to retire
PROVIDENCE — Fire Chief David D. Costa is retiring after only two years as chief of the department, and some city and union officials say he is leaving because he disagreed with Mayor David N. Cicilline’s policies and felt pressured to fight the city’s fire union.

For holidays, a show of force in capital
PROVIDENCE — Cliff Monteiro, who used to be a Providence police officer, remembers years past, when city police and state police did not get along.

11/22/2006

Dozens arrested in drug sweep
PROVIDENCE — In an investigation aimed at especially brazen drug dealing on street corners, the city police and federal drug agents have arrested 70 people on narcotics and weapons charges and are seeking to arrest another 27.

Firefighters put out warehouse blaze
PROVIDENCE — A fire yesterday morning caused moderate damage to the first floor of a vacant warehouse at 28 Agnes St. in Olneyville, according to the Fire Department.

Ghanaian poet shares snapshots of writer’s life with students
PROVIDENCE — An eighth-grade boy sidles up to Christina Ama Ata Aidoo, a renowned African playwright, poet, novelist and critic. By now, the author has finished speaking at Samuel Bridgham Middle School and the library has emptied.

Downcity skaters delight on opening day on ice
PROVIDENCE — Theresa Henson wanted her first time ice skating to be special.

Providence School Activities
Providence Schools will host on open house on Monday from 9 to 11 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at the 9th Grade Service Academy, 425 Branch Ave., for parents of 8th grade students entering high school in September.

Pawtucket man is shot in Westmninster lot
PROVIDENCE — The police are investigating a shooting that sent a man to the hospital with a head wound late Monday night. Todd Faria, 32, of 422 Smithfield Ave., Pawtucket, was shot with a small-caliber weapon that left BB-size fragments in his head.

Metro Notes
Blood drives: The Rhode Island Blood Center has scheduled the following blood drives:

11/21/2006

Two men rob bank on Elmgrove Avenue
PROVIDENCE — Two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, robbed the Sovereign Bank branch office at 131 Elmgrove Ave., at the intersection of Lloyd Avenue, on the East Side yesterday afternoon.

Council starts e-mail newsletter
PROVIDENCE — For a City Council member, it can be tough to get news of your exploits out to the public. Newspapers and television stations report what they want, and direct mailings are expensive.

Metro Notes
Free admission to the zoo: To thank Rhode Islanders for approving a ballot question that allocates $11 million in bond money for major upgrades and improvements at Roger Williams Park Zoo, admission is free on Saturday.

11/19/2006

Education of a councilman
Nick Narducci was raised to believe that your vote counted. But he didn’t realize how much until after he won the Democratic primary for Providence City Council in the city’s fractious Fourth Ward.

11/18/2006

Drivers learn too late their insurance doesn’t exist
PROVIDENCE — When Luis A. Martinez backed his Jeep Cherokee into another man’s car three years ago, he didn’t worry. That very day — Oct. 23, 2003 — he had purchased a policy through Catone Insurance Agency at 858 Broad St., and had a receipt and binder to prove it.

Drivers learn too late their insurance doesn't exist
PROVIDENCE -- When Luis A. Martinez backed his Jeep Cherokee into another man's car three years ago, he didn't worry. That very day -- Oct. 23, 2003 -- he had purchased a policy through Catone Insurance Agency at 858 Broad St., and had a receipt...

11/17/2006

Club seeks financing to continue
PROVIDENCE — A nonprofit club that has spent more than three decades teaching sportsmanship, responsibility and fitness to thousands of low-income youths is on the brink of financial collapse, according to its leaders.

Metro Notes
Annual exhibit: The opening for New Urban Arts’ annual exhibit featuring its 2006-07 artist mentors is tonight from 5 to 7 at 743 Westminster St.

11/16/2006

Del Sesto High to add principal, outside expert
PROVIDENCE — Del Sesto High School will get a third principal and an outside intervention expert to help turn around the troubled school, Deputy Supt. Frances Gallo said yesterday.

Parents push for all-day kindergarten
NORTH PROVIDENCE — Parents urged the School Committee last night to find a way to offer all-day kindergarten. Members of the panel signaled they might be ready to consider it.

Jennings files election complaint against Cicilline
PROVIDENCE — Ward 8 Democratic leader Wilbur W. Jennings Jr. has filed complaints with state and federal authorities, contending that Mayor David N. Cicilline threw a tantrum at a polling place on Election Day and interfered with a Cambodian couple who wanted to vote.

Metro Religion
Grace Church: The church at 275 Westminster St. will display sections of The Global AIDS Quilt tonight and continuing through Friday, Dec. 1, World AIDS Day. Tonight’s event begins at 5, and a Compline service will be sung by the Grace Church choir at 7 p.m. A reception will follow.

Metro Notes
Exhibit: The gallery at City Hall will have an opening reception today for its exhibit of the paintings of Mike Bryce, an adjunct professor at the Community College of Rhode Island and the Art Institute in Boston.

Providence School Activities
The Providence School Department will host open houses for parents of eighth grade students entering high school in September. The open houses will be from 9 to 11 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on these dates:

11/15/2006

Panel unveils its vision for Nathan Bishop Education Panel unveils its vision for Nathan Bishop Middle School
PROVIDENCE — Members of the Nathan Bishop Design Subcommittee had a choice: they could recommend turning the East Side middle school into a place that attracts high-performing students from the largely affluent East Side or they could create a school that would welcome children from less privileged backgrounds.

City seeking nominations for MLK Hall of Fame
PROVIDENCE — Mayor David N. Cicilline has announced that the city is accepting nominations for the fourth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Hall of Fame.

Awash in Fox Point

Residents face deadline for new water meters Top stories Providence residents face deadline to get new water meters
PROVIDENCE — City residents who still lack the automated devices that allow technicians from Providence Water to read their meters from outside will have to arrange to get one installed or face a cutoff of service.

‘Crisis at Del Sesto High’ Education ‘Crisis at Del Sesto High’ in Providence
PROVIDENCE — Del Sesto Middle School teachers complained that the high school students in their building are so rude, noisy and disruptive that it is making it next to impossible for them to teach.

11/14/2006

Parents, son charged with selling cocaine near school
PROVIDENCE — Three alleged South Providence crack dealers — a mother, a father and a son — are in custody after the police responded to complaints from the public and moved in on them.

Wrecking balls coming downtown?
PROVIDENCE — Rather than rehabilitate the Fogarty Building across the street from the Rhode Island Convention Center, a development company now wants to knock it down and build up.

School Board candidates make their case for job
PROVIDENCE — The candidates for the Providence School Board were in agreement on the big issues, from school uniforms to finding a fresh way to pay for public education.

City police probe weekend shootings
PROVIDENCE — The police are investigating three shootings over the last several days, including an assault on man who visiting an apartment on Althea Street that they say was being used for prostitution.

Resident treated after fire
PROVIDENCE — A tenant in a Mount Pleasant duplex that caught fire yesterday morning was treated for smoke inhalation at Rhode Island Hospital, the Fire Department said.

Metro Notes
Xxodus schedule: Xxodus Cafe at The Providence Black Repertory Company, 276 Westminster St., has scheduled the following performances:

Police identify man found dead in cell
PROVIDENCE — The police yesterday identified the man who was found dead in a police station cell as Carmine Porreca, 36, of 18 Home Ave., North Providence.

11/13/2006

Get your morning jolt
PROVIDENCE -- If you're a GTECH employee coming downtown to work this morning for the first time, you're probably frazzled.

Man shot outside strip club
PROVIDENCE — A man was shot in the back early yesterday morning outside the Sportsman’s Inn, 122 Fountain St. Deputy Police Chief Paul J. Kennedy said the victim did not have life-threatening injuries. Kennedy did not have any other information about the shooting, which occurred about 2:30 a.m. outside the downtown strip club and hotel.

11/12/2006

Biking 2,800 miles helps build school
Propelled by a "cosmic moment," Brown University student Patrick Cook-Deegan combined adventure with altruism this summer by cycling through Laos, to help build a school in a remote country where few schools exist.

Neighborhood of the Week: Residents, colleges jockey for room
College Hill, home to Benefit Street and much of Providence’s most beautiful historic architecture, is also home to Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. But, along with the impressive city views and the proximity to downtown, neighborhood leaders say they face considerable pressure from their powerful, influential and ever-expanding institutional neighbors. And they wish the city administration were more proactive in balancing the needs of the institutions and residents.

11/10/2006

Woman rejects plea offer in brutal revenge killing
Updated 2:36 p.m.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- A Cumberland woman accused in the July 2005 revenge killing of a 19-year-old Providence woman declined a plea offer after it was made public in court this morning.

Off-duty Providence detective arrested in restaurant incident
CRANSTON — An off-duty Providence detective and his girlfriend were arrested after allegedly making a drunken scene at Twin Oaks restaurant mid-afternoon on Friday.

Man injured at mall in third-floor leap
PROVIDENCE — A Providence man leaped from the third floor of the Providence Place mall yesterday afternoon and suffered broken bones in his fall, the police said.

Unitarian pastor’s faith was forged by lessons in the South
PROVIDENCE — The Rev. Donald Cameron, the man who is about to be installed Sunday as the 16th minister of the historic First Unitarian Church, admits that when it comes to believing in God, “I’m more of a sloppy mystic.”

Judge OK’s review of police complaints
PROVIDENCE — A Superior Court judge has validated a controversial civilian board created to review misconduct by Providence police officers.

Man, woman charged with possessing drugs and a handgun
PROVIDENCE — The police have arrested a man who claims to be a political refugee from Cambodia and charged him and his girlfriend with possessing about $23,000 worth of cocaine and marijuana and a handgun.

Forum hosts School Board hopefuls
PROVIDENCE — Residents will have the opportunity to meet the 10 candidates for the School Board on Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the third-floor conference room of the School Administration Building, 797 Westminster St.

Metro Notes
Exhibit, events: Along with Dream Cows, a traveling exhibit of paintings by Betty LaDuke, the University of Rhode Island Providence Campus Gallery will present Crittertales, featuring storyteller Len Cabral, as well as a petting zoo on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the gallery, 80 Washington St., and in the lot across Westminster Street.

11/09/2006

Providence School Activities

Off-duty detective arrested
CRANSTON — An off-duty Providence detective and his girlfriend were arrested after allegedly making a drunken scene at Twin Oaks restaurant mid-afternoon on Friday.

Hope partners with RIC
PROVIDENCE — Hope High School has embarked on a historic partnership with Rhode Island College that will benefit high school students, high school teachers and aspiring young teachers from the college.

City to open second park for pet dogs
PROVIDENCE — The Board of Parks Commissioners voted recently to open the city’s second official dog park at the Dexter Training Ground in the West End this month.

Voters have the final say in more ways than one
PROVIDENCE — “You can’t count ‘not Mollis,’ can you?”

Metro Religion news
Installation: The Congregation of the First Unitarian Church announced that The Rev. Donald Cameron will be installed as the 16th senior minister on Sunday at 5 p.m. in the Meeting House at the corner of Benefit and Benevolent streets.

11/08/2006

Immigrants facing weapons charges
PROVIDENCE — Four Guatemalan immigrants, who the authorities allege entered the United States illegally, have been arrested on federal weapons charges for buying three pistols and two rifles from an undercover Warwick police detective.

Voters say it’s time for term limits
PROVIDENCE — A referendum question on a City Charter change setting term limits for elected officers won by a 2-to-1 margin last night while a move to reshape the city’s Retirement Board won by a slimmer margin.

Cicilline takes easy victory
PROVIDENCE — Mayor David N. Cicilline handily won a second term last night, beating Republican Dr. Daniel S. Harrop by a five to one margin.

Huge number of ballots creates machine problems
PROVIDENCE — Within hours after the polls opened yesterday, city election officials began receiving phone calls about problems with voting machines.

Metro Notes
Awards banquet: The Cape Verdean Heritage Hall of Fame Committee will holds its second annual Cape Verdean Heritage Hall of Fame banquet and awards ceremony on Saturday at the Venus de Milo, Swansea.