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10/11/2008

3 charged with breaking into elderly woman’s house
JOHNSTON — Three men were arrested yesterday and charged with breaking into an elderly woman’s house on Spring Street.

10/10/2008

Johnston ordinance would stiffen scrap yards’ regulations
JOHNSTON — The Town Council is poised to vote on a proposal to regulate local scrap yards and auto-salvage operations, forcing them to present fire-prevention plans to the fire chief and comply with other new requirements.

10/09/2008

Woman who left dogs pleads not guilty
Police say Diana Tetrault, 20, muzzled her two pit bulls with electrical tape and left them alone as she went to the hospital to give birth.

10/08/2008

Woman charged with animal cruelty
JOHNSTON — A pregnant 20-year-old woman muzzled two pit bulls with electrical tape and cooped them up in her apartment — without food or water — before she went to the hospital to give birth to her son, the police said yesterday.

Up to their eyes in ears
Jenks Middle School seventh graders Brianna Sepulvedia and Emily Zammarello husk corn Monday as part of the Farm-to-School Project in Rhode Island. Students and staff at the Pawtucket school celebrate the fall harvest season by shucking 1,500 ears of corn from Confeda Farms in Cranston. Food service provider Sodexho Education then served the corn to Jenks students at lunch yesterday.

Woman charged with animal cruelty
JOHNSTON — A pregnant 20-year-old woman muzzled two pit bulls with electrical tape and cooped them in her apartment — without food or water — before she went to the hospital to give birth to her son, the police said yesterday.

10/07/2008

EPA fines company $256,320 for asbestos removal in Johnston
JOHNSTON — A local demolition company faces a $256,320 penalty for improperly dealing with asbestos at the site of the former Seaboard Foundry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday.

10/05/2008

Bank gives sisters more time to pay reverse mortgages
Bank of America has held off on a scheduled foreclosure and granted an extension to the family of a late Johnston man who had taken out reverse mortgages on his contemporary house at 2 Valley View Drive. A story on the threatened foreclosure ran in the Sept. 28 ProjoHomes.

10/03/2008

Johnston officials yet to respond to financial report card
An auditor says he may issue the management letter today, without the town’s responses, depending on the outcome of a meeting with Johnston’s finance director.

10/02/2008

Johnston Digest
Community Briefs

10/01/2008

Johnston Planning Board again OKs FM Global project
But CapLease, the company that owns FM Global’s existing headquarters, is dissatisfied with the decision.

09/30/2008

Johnston awaits Pocasset River federal flood-control plan
The watershed blueprint is expected to detail cost estimates and what needs to be done to alleviate the river’s flooding problem.

09/28/2008

The dark side of reverse mortgages
Two sisters seek more time to pay off the reverse mortgage that their late parents had received on their Johnston home. But their effort to avoid foreclosure is uncertain.

09/26/2008

Grant will help boost science education
The $12.5 million, awarded to the University of Rhode Island, will pay for training for high school and middle school teachers.

09/25/2008

Burrillville tax revenue boon seen in power-line plan
BURRILLVILLE — The town would reap an estimated $400,000 in additional annual tax revenue if National Grid lays 13 miles of new transmission lines, a utility official told the Town Council last night.

Johnston Digest
Community Briefs

09/24/2008

Johnston neighbors’ opposition to funeral home rises
Residents on the northern end of Atwood Avenue have circulated a petition against a proposal to establish a “business” in their residential neighborhood.

09/23/2008

Conley to take over as city’s top license official
PROVIDENCE — Richard H. Aitchison, longtime city license administrator, who helped to implement a more formal and more open decision-making process in licensing matters, has quietly retired from his $72,774-a-year post.

Johnston police to add off-road patrols with scooter, ATVs
A new scooter and two ATVs will expand the Police Department’s crime-fighting arsenal.

Burrillville residents urged to voice opposition to RIPTA route cutback
A public hearing is set for Oct. 6 on the plan to jettison a bus route that brings passengers back and forth from Zambarano Hospital to Kennedy Plaza in Providence.