West Greenwich News

It was a chilly 24 degrees and the snow drifts were 20 inches deep in most places, but that didn't stop a pack of bundled-up parents and children from taking to the city's West Side streets Sunday night to spread some holiday cheer.

They say timing is everything. And so it was -- for both better and worse -- as a relentless pre-Christmas storm slammed Rhode Island over the weekend with more than 20 inches of snow piling up in some areas and slicing winds causing blizzard-like conditions throughout the region.

Chalk up another casualty of the sour economy. Ocean State Tackle owner David Henault has closed his Bristol store, and his West Greenwich shop may be next.

Governor Carcieri announced Tuesday that after years of studies, reports and controversy, the state is finally drawing drinking water from two high capacity wells in the Big River Management Area - the same area that was envisioned years ago as the state's newest reservoir site.

Despite the state's deep budget cuts and yawning deficit, education officials have developed a budget proposal for 2010-2011 that includes slightly more than $7.3 million in additional money for charter schools.

" Lottery giant GTECH Corp. laid off about 30 employees in Rhode Island two weeks ago as part of a larger round of worldwide cuts by its parent company, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The police are investigating a home invasion in which a disabled man was robbed at gunpoint of pain medications as well as credit cards, cash and his permits for driving, hunting and growing medical marijuana.

In the evening, dozens of white cardboard boxes are delivered to a warehouse backed up to the woods of West Greenwich.

Centreville Bank is inaugurating a partnership with radio station WWKX and Neighborhood Health Plan to help needy Rhode Islanders stay warm this winter.

" Rhode Island needs to speed up its permitting process if it wants to attract industrial businesses, a consultant hired by the R.I. Economic Development Corporation said in a report released late Monday.

Gerry Moniz didn't hesitate when asked what she thinks of the nationally publicized dispute between Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin and Rep.

Rhode Island transportation officials are temporarily closing a lane of Interstate 95 South.

Exeter/West Greenwich vs Smithfield in the Division II State Cham

Theatro, the latest contemporary design led development by Union Developments' award winning creative team launches at Colliers International property exhibition on the 14th and 15th of November 2009 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong Central.

Norman Elof Jacobson celebrated his 100th birthday Saturday with a party at Ethan Place Assisted Living, Warwick.

The South County Community Action Agency is offering no-cost energy audits and free energy conservation services such as insulation of walls and attics, window and door replacement and weather stripping and caulking for low-income homeowners and renters in South County and West Greenwich.

Repairs to railroad tracks at Allens Avenue in Providence and on a Route 95 bridge in West Greenwich will result in lane closures starting Wednesday and Friday, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.

The opening of the last segment of the much-touted Iway, from Route 195 West to Route 95 North, as well as of a pair of new Point Street off-ramps, are set to be the high points of a busy week for highway construction in Rhode Island.

The Coventry Police cruiser sat idle, with its lights flashing, at Exit 7 on Route 95 north, diverting traffic off the highway because of a three-car crash further up the road.

If you thought it was extra cold and wet on Thursday for this time of year, you were right.