by Elizabeth McNamara | Nov 21, 2019 | Government, News, Schools
By Elizabeth F. McNamara The School Committee voted 6-0 at its meeting Tuesday night to extend an offer to Frank Pallotta to serve as interim superintendent, pending an agreement on terms. Supt. Victor Mercurio is leaving the district to take a job at Johnson &...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Nov 21, 2019 | Business, Government, News
By Elizabeth F. McNamara At a meeting last week, the Town Council spent barely two minutes on the third reading of a revised noise ordinance as it affects outdoor music on the waterfront, approving the new ordinance 5-0. It was a quiet finale to a loud,...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Nov 20, 2019 | Business, General Interest, Government, History
By Elizabeth F. McNamara In 1960, Martha McPartland published “The History of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1677-1960,” and her very opening paragraph echoed sentiments expressed nearly 60 years later at East Greenwich Today & Tomorrow, a forum put on by East...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Nov 19, 2019 | Government, News, Schools
By Elizabeth F. McNamara The Town of East Greenwich has joined 15 other Rhode Island cities and towns in a Superior Court lawsuit against the General Assembly and Gov. Gina Raimondo over legislation signed into law in June that allows public sector labor union...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Nov 13, 2019 | Government, News, Police & Fire
By Elizabeth F. McNamara If all goes according to plan, the EG Police Department will be sending four recruits to the state police academy in January, three to fill funded vacant positions and one extra, according to Town Manager Andrew Nota. “We have another...
by egnews | Nov 12, 2019 | Government, Op/Ed, Schools
By Veronika Kot and Steven Brown Across the state in recent months, there has been an enormous amount of hand-wringing by some school officials over an advisory opinion issued this past April by former state commissioner of education Ken Wagner. The advisory – which...