5 Things You Need To Know Today

Five Things: Schools Budget Hearing, 'Biz After Hours'

Your guide for life in East Greenwich today, Feb 26.

Zoning Board meeting: Among the items on the agenda is an application by Wild Harvest Breads and Café, for a parking variance for a proposed new site at 1675 South County Trail. The meeting takes place in Council Chambers at Town Hall starting at 7 p.m. School Committee meeting: Tonight is the public hearing on the School Department’s budget for fiscal year 2014 (July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014). If you have an opinion about school spending, this is a great opportunity to express it. 7 p.m. in the library at Cole Middle School. ‘Business After Hours’ @ Coastway Community Bank: The East Greenwich Chamber of Commerce holds its monthly Business After Hours at Coastway Community Bank tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. 5750 Post Road. Join …

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Rants and Raves

Black Friday Bah, Fire District Merger Question Huzzah!

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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Readers' Choice

And The Best Sandwich Winner Is …

Wild Harvest, with 88 votes, is EG Patch Readers’ Choice.

Readers got fired up about sandwiches in East Greenwich — a total of 217 votes were cast in the Readers’ Choice poll between Monday and Friday. Of those, the clear favorite was Wild Harvest Breads & Cafe, which got 40 percent, or 88 votes. Natales on South County Trail placed second, with 26 percent, or 56 votes. And Greenwich Bay Gourmet came in third, with 9 percent, or 20 votes. A total of 12 different places in town got votes — that’s good news for East Greenwich sandwich lovers. As for what makes Wild Harvest stand out, their oven-roasted meat sandwiches seem to be a big favorite. “Wild Harvest has homemade roasted turkey and roast beef! Winner in my book,” commented reader Charles Hopkins. “I would have to say that our most popular …

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5 Things You Need To Know Today

Cooking, Canvassers, Council & More

Five things you need to know about East Greenwich today, March 12.

Board of Canvassers meeting: With election season nearing, the board will meet to select presidential primary workers and will hear about redistricting changes from Kimball Brace of Election Data Services. The meeting takes place in Conference Room B at Town Hall at 2 p.m. Town Council meeting: On tonight’s agenda is an update on the Odeum. Board President Frank Prosnitz told the Council in January that the Main Street theater would be able to open by the end of March. Also on the agenda, the Council will hear plans by the Main Street Association (formerly Downtown Planning Initiative) to hold a wine tasting event in the municipal parking lot between 58 and 86 Main Street on May 19. The meeting is held in Council Chambers at Town Hall, …

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Stocking Up For The Super Bowl

East Greenwich will eat a lot of food on game day.

John Eddy, the manager of Dave's Marketplace at 1000 Division, says this weekend will be controlled chaos as customers load up for the big game. The shelves are packed, extra staff will be on duty and the trucks of key suppliers will roll in with stock to replenish the shelves on both Saturday and Sunday. "We'll stay ahead of the wave until it crashes," Eddy says. Saturday will be the big day, but Eddy expects to be busy right up to game time on Sunday as customers fill their carts with chips, salsa, soda, chicken wings, bread, and rolls. He says the demand will be for anything party related. The Super Bowl weekend is always big, but having the Patriots play is making it even bigger. Eddy expects traffic to be double that of a normal …

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