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STAR OF THE SHOW: With a dream of being on Saturday Night Live or entering the film industry, Nate Burgoine, a drama student at Cranston High School East, is instructed by Jim Karpeichik of Ocean State Video in Cranston who is filming the commercial spots.
Most high school students don’t share their dreams publicly, but that’s exactly what 60 students from Cranston East and West did while filming a commercial against underage drinking and drug use ...
Garden City Center has been a fixture in Cranston since 1948. And while property manager The Wilder Companies believes that longevity is the result of a successful business model, they say Garden C...
To the beat of rock music and the buzz of excited voices, New England Institute of Technology hosted its fourth FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge Sa...
“A community of black-clad performers feed 100 bonfires, quietly and anonymously. The flames shoot skyward, sparks settle on the water and a city comes to life. So it is with blood donors. As wit...
QuahogCon is a regional conference for the hacker culture in all forms: hardware, software, security, social, eco-hacking and zero impact living. There will also be sessions available for InfoSec t...
On Wednesday evening, March 3, the fourth, fifth and sixth-grade Elementary Strings students from Oak Lawn and Glen Hills Elementary Schools performed in what will most likely be their final stri...
Two weeks ago, concerned Cranston residents noticed a spike in the number of sex offenders at the Harrington Hall shelter. Within days, they had touched base with the administration, the police d...
State Education Commissioner Deborah Gist fielded tough questions from legislators angered by the fact that the department’s proposed school funding formula would send less money to their district ...
In 2008, Cranston resident Barbara Manni was inspired by her personal struggle with breast cancer to create KareChiefs, a brand of headscarves for women who lose their hair during chemotherapy. ...
For almost six decades, every student in Cranston walked through the same hallways, ate in the same cafeterias, and sang the same fight song. That changed when Cranston West opened its doors in 1...
“Sacred ground” were the words used Thursday evening to describe the site where 100 died and another 200 were injured on Feb. 20, 2003 in The Station nightclub fire. Yet as it is now, the site ...
La Salle Academy senior Hannah McDonald of Cranston has been named Miss Narragansett Bay. As Miss Narragansett Bay, McDonald will compete in the Miss Rhode Island 2010 Scholarship Pageant this ...
The area where Walnut Grove and Atwood Avenues meet has long been a traffic nightmare for Cranston Police and residents of the area. But when local officials plead with the state Department of Tran...
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