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The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office is proud to announce that an Elder Conference – “Knowledge = Prevention” will take place on Thursday, June 4, 2009, at Wheaton College in Norton, MA.  The event will be held from 9:00AM to 2:00PM in the Emerson Dining Hall.  This event is a kick-off to District Attorney Sutter’s [...]

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Plainville May 28, 2009 – Third graders at the Plainville Jackson School are starting a unit on simple machines.  They will learn about levers, wheels and axles, pulleys, wedges, ramps, inclined planes and screws.  All of which are simple machines.  To kick off the unit they held a Machine Expo!  Each student had to contruct a [...]

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 Photo:   Dominique DeSimone sings a solo during the recent Fine Arts & Music Night at Dayspring Christian Academy of Attleboro ATTLEBORO – Dayspring Christian Academy recently hosted its annual Fine Arts and Music Night at the school located at 1052 Newport Avenue in Attleboro, proudly exhibiting its students’ artistic and musical abilities.   An art exhibition [...]

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The Rhode Island Rays Manta U12 team is holding try-outs for the 2009-2010 season. The Rays are a premiere soccer club for girls.   Try-outs are scheduled for Tuesdays, June 2 and 9, and Thursdays, June 4 and 11, from 5 to 7 pm. Tuesday try-outs are held at Morley Field in Pawtucket. On Thursdays, [...]

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Registration is taking place for Linden Place’s annual Summer Arts Camp for Kids, a weekday summer camp focused on the arts, for children ages 6-14. This camp is conducted on the beautiful grounds of Linden Place Mansion in Bristol, Rhode Island.  Each day, from 9 a.m. until 2:45 p.m., campers participate in a wide variety [...]

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  PHOTO CAPTION: Grace Baptist Christian Academy recently “graduated” its kindergarten Class of 2009 during a formal ceremony at the school witnessed by family members and friends. In addition to receiving “diplomas,” students also exhibited their burgeoning academic skills through readings, recitations, singing and performing a skit. Shown here, from left, are students David Peterson, [...]

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The Weaver Library, 41 Grove Ave., East Providence, RI 02914 once again hosts a large World War II living history display on the library lawn on Saturday, June 6, 2009 from 10:00AM – 3:00PM .              Mr. Russ Erwin, an East Providence resident and an avid collector of military items, will display hundreds of [...]

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In 1984, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created Lifeline, a program to ensure landline phone access was available and affordable to rural and poor communities.  Lifeline is funded by the Universal Service Fund (USF) via fees collected from all telecommunications carriers and generally passed on to each consumer’s monthly bill.  Since its inception, Lifeline has [...]

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The Community Players, Rhode Island’s longest-running community theatre, rounds out its 88th season with Ron Hutchinson’s side-splitting comedy, Moonlight and Magnolias. Set in 1939 Hollywood, legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic Gone With The Wind because the screenplay just isn’t working.  He sends a car for famed screenwriter [...]

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A litter of kittens found near the site of a brush fire in Attleboro were brought to local feline rescue Angelcat Haven on Wednesday. The Sun Chronicle reported that there was a rash of brush fires last week that kept the fire department busy. These four tiny kittens are the innocent victims of these fires. [...]

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