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5/25/2021 Confusion over school cut PAWTUCKET – A cut from a near-maximum 3.74 percent tax increase to 2.5 percent increase is “more palatable” to city taxpayers after multiple financial hits, said Councilor Mark Wildenhain, head of the council’s finance subcommittee. Working with Mayor Donald Grebien’s administration, he said the council was able to find the cuts needed to lessen the burden, though there are still some unknown variables going forward. The overall decrease in expenditures given initial approval by the council’s finance subcommittee and committee of the whole at it...

5/11/2021 City Hall tower will be replaced in major project City officials have decided to complete a full removal and replacement of the Pawtucket City Hall tower facade. (Breeze photo by Ethan Shorey) PAWTUCKET – A top-to-bottom reconstruction of the downtown’s centerpiece architecture is now in the works after officials determined that a facelift for the Pawtucket City Hall tower wouldn’t be enough. Joe Morais, project leader at the Pawtucket Department of Public Works, wrote in a memo last week that the city has decided on a full removal and replacement of the current tower rather t...

5/11/2021 McCoy Stadium one of two possible sites for safety complex McCoy Stadium is one of two proposed sites for a new public safety complex. (Breeze file photo by Robert Emerson) PAWTUCKET – McCoy Stadium off Division Street and Columbus Avenue is one of two proposed sites for a new public safety complex, Mayor Donald Grebien is confirming this week. The second and more likely option is the existing site of the Department of Public Works at Armistice Boulevard and George Bennett Highway, to be located on a swath of land on the industrial highway side of the property. Both sites are unde...

PAWTUCKET – Owners of the downtown Apex properties have sued city officials in their personal capacities, saying the lawsuit is meant to “stop the systemic abuse of power deployed by the defendants.” The lawsuit, filed in District Court April 14, says Mayor Donald Grebien and others “have relentlessly singled out the Apex Companies, interfered with their property rights and their businesses, and tried to coerce them into giving up their properties in violation of the law.” The city, working with the state, “has engaged in a coordinated attempt to pass unconstitutional legislation ...

PAWTUCKET – Owners of the downtown Apex properties have sued city officials in their personal capacities, saying the lawsuit is meant to “stop the systemic abuse of power deployed by the defendants.” The lawsuit, filed in District Court April 14, says Mayor Donald Grebien and others “have relentlessly singled out the Apex Companies, interfered with their property rights and their businesses, and tried to coerce them into giving up their properties in violation of the law.” The city, working with the state, “has engaged in a coordinated attempt to pass unconstitutional legislation ...