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By Ann M. Frank, Psy.D.
Dear Dr. Frank: About a year ago, my mother re-married after being on her own for many years.
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Without doubt, Bishop Thomas Tobin's recent letter to immigration officials asking for the cessation of raids against illegal immigrants certainly raised some eyebrows. continue
By Aimee O'Connor
** "The House Bunny"
Sororities, makeovers for geeky girls, nudie magazines; Susan B. Anthony is spinning so fast underground I'm sure she made it to Beijing in time for the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.
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Three weeks of art, entertainment, fun and food
By PATRICIA A. RUSSELL, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
PAWTUCKET - Now in its 10th year, the Pawtucket Arts Festival has become a destination hot spot for locals and regional folks.
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By PETE CONNELL
Major League baseball in the Nation's Capital is played in a $611 million concrete, metal and glass testament to wealth and extravagance that opened this season to near-SRO crowds, few of whom had anything to do with either its construction or its cost.
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Raises short of police, fire 3.5 percent gains, Harnois
By GERRY GOLDSTEIN, Valley Breeze & Observer Correspondent
SMITHFIELD - School officials and teachers' union representatives reached tentative agreement on a new three-year contract Sunday during a negotiating session that spanned nine hours.
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Mom claims daughter, 10, missing at pick-up time
By JOSEPH R. LaPLANTE, Valley Breeze & Observer Managing Editor
SCITUATE - The complaints from a mother about a lack of supervision and activities in the town's summer recreation program has prompted Recreation Committee member Carol Costa to call for an overhaul of the program and a resuscitation of a board that has not met in more than one year.
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By JANET KERLIN, Breeze Correspondent
NORTH PROVIDENCE - After six weeks in Germany, the 21-year-old man who sought an experimental coma treatment there for a debilitating pain condition, has returned to the United States with an outcome that leaves his parents with mixed feelings.
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Raises short of police, fire 3.5 percent gains, Harnois
By GERRY GOLDSTEIN, Valley Breeze & Observer Correspondent
SMITHFIELD - School officials and teachers' union representatives reached tentative agreement on a new three-year contract Sunday during a negotiating session that spanned nine hours.
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By JOSEPH R. LaPLANTE, Valley Breeze & Observer Managing Editor
NORTH PROVIDENCE - A four-way Democratic primary for the District 1 School Committee seat held by board Chairman Vito Martinelli awaits voters at the Sept. 9 primary.
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Iverson claims ignorance at time of offered benefit
By JOSEPH R. LaPLANTE, Valley Breeze & Observer Managing Editor
SCITUATE - Rhode Island Municipal Employee Retirement System records disclose that seven of the 13 persons who served on the Town Council with former councilman Richard Iverson elected to join the state's pension system in the same period he contends he was unaware of the benefit, according to documents obtained by The Valley Breeze Observer.
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By ELIZABETH ABBOTT, Valley Breeze & Observer, Correspondent
GLOCESTER - With the start of school just five business days away, Glocester teachers are still without a contract, as are the school department's non-certified employees.
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FOSTER - The 7th annual Memorial Flag Ceremony will be held on Thursday, Sept. 11, 6:30 p.m., at Borders Farm, 31 North Road. continue
NORTH PROVIDENCE - St. Mary's Home for Children will be welcoming former residents to the North Providence campus to get reacquainted at the 2nd annual Alumni Reunion on Sunday, Sept. 7 from 12 to 3 p.m. continue









