Saturday, January 5, 2013
What we love and loathe about living in East Greenwich this week.
RAVE: My family is one of the crazy groups who did the Frozen Clam Plunge to welcome the New Year on January 1, 2013. We are actually Plunge hoppers, testing the waters at different local beaches for the past five years. We have Polar Bear Plunged at North Kingstown Beach and Penguin Plunged at Narragansett Beach. There were definite advantages to using a home-front beach. The first being that we actually were close to home so it was a quick hop back to hot showers and cocoa (although the downside is that the car engine never really had a chance to warm up so it was also a cold ride). Also on the plus side are the logistics of Goddard Beach, which has a short span for both sprinting and for reaching deeper water, making head plunging (…
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Information about the following incidents was supplied by the East Greenwich Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
Monday, Dec. 17 12:04 p.m. – An employee of a medical office on South County Trail reported she was being harassed by her ex-boyfriend while at work. Police spoke with the ex-boyfriend, of North Kingstown as is the woman, and he said he would not go to the woman’s workplace again. 4:53 p.m. – Police heard from two people about an erratic driver on Division Street. Police found the car, which was traveling west on Division, and and saw it drive through two red lights. Finally, police got the car to pull over by the Showcase Cinemas. The driver, of Wakefield, appeared to have medical conditions that would prohibit him from operating a car safety. Police had the man taken to Kent Hospital and sent a letter to the DMV medical board. Tuesday, …
Monday, December 5, 2011
Information about the following arrests and offenses was supplied by the East Greenwich Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
Monday, Nov. 21 9:58 a.m. - A real estate agent reported that a vacant house on Lebaron Drive had been broken into and all the copper pipe had been removed from the basement. The agent estimated the pipe to be worth around $8,000. 7:47 p.m. - Employees of the Dunkin Donuts on Main Street reported that there was a drunk man there. According to the report, police knew the man. When he said he had no place to go for the night, EG Rescue was called and he was taken to Kent Hospital for detox and issued a public drunkenness citation for municipal court. 11:57 p.m. - Police arrested William Blake, 62, of Union Street on an outstanding bench warrant after police discovered his car parked in the fire chief’s space on Main Street and ran the plate…
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11:39 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
GOOD MORNING KK. MY ADVICE TO YOUR QUESTION IS THAT WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE'S POOCH MAKING A DEPOSIT, PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL THE POLICE STATION AND HAVE THEM GET IN TOUCH WITH THE ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GUILTY OF THIS ORDINANCE ARE PEOPLE, THAT, IF THEY DO GO ON PATCH WILL SKIP RIGHT OVER THIS ARTICLE. ALSO, IN REGARDS TO PEOPLE WALKING THEIR DOGS ON SCHOOL FIELDS, I HAVE … more ›