The town council unanimously voted to charge the turnpike authority a service fee for land that it owns at the Pell Bridge toll plaza, The Jamestown Press reported May 31, 1991. The plan to bill the Rhode Island Bridge and Turnpike Authority was proposed by Councilman Nick Robertson. “They disrupted the economy of the island
The Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is blasting the school district for the way it handled a drug search at Lawn School, The Jamestown Press reported Feb. 24, 2000. Calling the search “a disturbing show of police force” and a “significant invasion of privacy,” the ACLU urged the school committee to
The police department has presented a manpower study that recommends creating the position of captain, The Jamestown Press reported Jan. 23, 1992. The captain would be created within the department by taking an office from the existing patrol force of 13 officers. The position should be “filled immediately to provide the additional supervision necessary to