Rants and Raves

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What to love and hate about living in East Greenwich this week.

RANT: With so much to be grateful for this season – a warm home and food on the table (knowing many have lost it all), the election finally over (well, abated for at least one year) the kids’ cats are on sabbatical from peeing on our beds (gross), narwhals (because if they exist, maybe unicorns do too), the return of the East Greenwich Hill and Harbor Turkey Trot, video games (because you can’t, scratch that, shouldn’t shoot stupid people in real life), the return of Jiggers, the opening of Silver Spoon Bakery (though my thighs aren’t quite as appreciative of that one), the survival of The Village Café, the reopening of the Odeum, our troops and anyone in any job that puts their life on the line, my dishwasher (or, more to the point, …

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Main Street Coffee Expanding Bar Area

Expansion could be completed by early September.

Main Street Coffee & Toscana Lounge owner Steve Cinquegrana has leased eight parking spaces behind 58 Main St., a half block north of his coffee shop, to cover parking requirements for a planned expansion of the bar area. The EG Planning Board said that fulfills the requirement and has given him approval. Cinquegrana, who opened the coffee shop in 2003, added a bar in 2006, taking over space he had been leasing to Spardello’s for a small men’s clothing store. This addition will be into an area that is currently a small apartment.    With the additional room there will be space for five more people at the bar, plus additional seating for another seven or eight people.  The idea is to open up the wall into the former apartment, creating a …

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