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A Highway Superintendent Rick Lambert reports his department is ready for the snow forecast for early Saturday - light trucks have plows attached and there's sand loaded in the larger trucks.

Woonsocket School Department Business Manager Stacey Busby has not been present over the past several weeks for budget discussions and has not been available at the High Street office.

Since the revelation that the Woonsocket Education Department exceeded their 2011 budget by $2.7 million, the city has taken a multifaceted approach to preventing another unpleasant surprise in 2012.

Meeting- The Woonsocket School Committee will hold their regular meeting tonight at the Middle School at Hamlet at 7 p.m. Items on the agenda include a 2012 year to date budget review, a resolution opposing contract continuation and discussion of the bussing contract.

On the first Tuesday of every month, Woonsocket Patch readers can identify the person in a photo provided by the Woonsocket Historical Society for the chance to win a $10 gift card to Dunkin' Donuts.

Three non-profit housing organizations in Rhode Island are getting more than half a million dollars in federal funding to develop affordable housing units and help homeowners on the brink of losing their homes.

Water treatment plant progress- Things may finally move forward on the purchase of a site for Woonsocket's new water treatment plant .

Three local people have been arrested on charges they were dealing cocaine and marijuana from a local barbershop and apartment building.

City Council- It will be a busy night for the Woonsocket City Council starting with a meeting of the Audit Sub-Committee at 5 p.m. Sub-Committee members are scheduled toA review and discuss data submitted by the school department to the state director of the department of revenue.

State Rep. trumpets rep.A State Rep. Bob Watson appeared in the news again last month for the wrong reasons.

Woonsocket : "The overwhelming majority of criminologists agree that the death penalty does NOT act as a deterrent to murder.

A Rep. Patricia A. Serpa has introduced a House resolution requesting Gov. Lincoln Chafee to implement programs and methodology to improve the program integrity of both Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program in the state.

This weekend, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch are sponsoring "Museums On Us," which allows bank cardholders to visit museums in Rhode Island for free, including the Providence Children's Museum , Rhode Island School of Design Museum , and the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket .

For the second consecutive year, Woonsocket High School students have organized a fundraiser to benefit the Autism Project of Rhode Island and this year, Las Vegas magicians from Carson Entertainment will be performing.

More than 160 years have passed since Rhode Island last executed a criminal, but a 2010 murder on the streets of Woonsocket now has some pushing to bring back the death penalty.

A State Rep. trumpets rep.A State Rep. Bob Watson appeared in the news again this week for the wrong reasons.

TERM: Norwood School Principal Nancy Plumb, left, and Robertson School Principal Lynn Dambruch reasoned that the department needs to look at impacts on elementary schools when considering consolidation of secondary schools.

The city of Cranston has been labeled a "distressed community" and is now eligible for extra state funding, according to Mayor Allan Fung.