Thursday, April 18, 2013
Most among the top finishers were EGHS students or grads.
The weather wasn't exactly ideal for the East Greenwich Track Club's second Bunny Hop last Saturday, but runners and supporters turned out anyway. The winner of the 5K race was East Greenwich High School student Ben Fazio, 17, a cross country and track standout, with a time of 16:25. The first female finisher was Emily McCaffery, 27, a EGHS alum, with a time of 19:45. For the 1K Fun Run, the top finisher was Cole Middle Schooler Matt Sommer. Here are the 5K top finishers (for the full list, click here): Men's Ben Fazio Garrett Scalon Scott Kulm Tommy Sommer Tom McMahon Scott Marcus Matthew Wegrzyn Will O'Connell Richard Clapp Angelo Acker Women's Emily McCaffery Margaret McCaffery Emily Browne Sharon Siedliski Thedita Pedersen Abby …
Thursday, December 6, 2012
December is a long way from June, when next year's budget is finalized at the Financial Town Meeting, but you've got to start somewhere.
Town Council and School Committee members sat down together Tuesday for the first time since the election brought two new members to the School Committee and everyone agreed that the spirit of collaboration that began two years ago and continued last year should be continued. It was the first of what both panels acknowledged would be numerous joint and independent sessions on the fiscal year 2013 budget, which will begin July 1, 2012. The School Committee, while an independent body, must live under the ultimate budget decisions of the Town Council, which by town charter must pass the budget. The School Committee submits a budget to the Council in March. The Council must pass a budget in May and voters have the opportunity to vote on the …
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
That’s $1.48 million – around 4 percent – over the current budget.
Superintendent Victor Mercurio presented a $34 million budget for fiscal year 2013 to the School Committee Tuesday night, $1.48 million – roughly 4.5 percent – higher than the 2012 budget. The increases, he said, came from a variety of sources, including contracted salary and benefits increases (around $1 million) and special education (around $460,000). The amount sought from the town, however, is at just over 4 percent, thanks to increases in revenue, including a projected in boost in state aid. Typically, the state aid number has been the last one to fall into line, but the state passed an education funding formula last year and according to that, East Greenwich is slated to receive $1.78 million from the state. That's an increase of …
Mary Anne Parniske
5:02 pm on Thursday, March 1, 2012
I don't believe what I am hearing. Why is there always a huge rise in costs, it seems higher than the cost of living. In these extraordinary ecomomic times I believe the people who run the department should be limiting expenses, just as the citizens of East Greenwich and Rhode Island have to.You act like $ from the states is not money from us. Granted not everyone in this town is having financial… more ›