Dick Martin

5 days ago | nrinow.news | Dick Martin

Mother’s Day is coming fast. It reminds me how lucky I was to have a good, caring mother who watched out for me all her life. Mothers are like that. Sometimes, of course, that watching out part was a bit of a problem. Not that I did anything bad, but, as boys will, I got into my share of trouble. All part of growing up, I say. Always, it seems, she was keeping an eye on me. Take the time we were at Cook’s Pond, for example. I was all of three or four and not exactly a fish in water.

5 days ago | nrinow.news | Dick Martin

GLOCESTER – Voters will get to make a decision on the Glocester town budget at a town referendum on Tuesday, May 20, weighing in on a fiscal plan totaling $34,567,000, an increase of $380,938, the maximum allowed according to state regulations. “We are right at 4 percent,” said Town Council Vice President Walter Steere. “We can’t move another penny. I hope people get out and support this budget because if it doesn’t pass, we’ve got to cut it even more, and that’s across the board.

2 weeks ago | nrinow.news | Dick Martin

It was just one of those nonchalant comments made by a friend:”I’d love to…if I could find the time…” What ever happened to time anyway? I remember reading about how there used to be plenty of it around, enough for everyone to share…Actually, I have found that in New England we seem to have gotten the short end of the hour hand when it comes to time.

2 weeks ago | nrinow.news | Dick Martin

GLOCESTER – Glocester taxpayers got a preview of the upcoming town budget at a recent hearing held at Ponaganset High School. The proposed municipal budget amounts to $9,107,526, an increase of $167,507 or 2 percent, over this year’s $8,940,019. The Glocester schools budget request is $12,295,102, an increase of $806,989, or 7.02 percent over the previous year of $11,488,113.

3 weeks ago | nrinow.news | Dick Martin

I was sitting here thinking what intriguing, exciting, absolutely mind-boggling experience I would pen for this week’s column, when it hit me: swamp rafting. It was just about this time also that my wife strolled into the room and discovered me in my characteristic thinking pose, which I might add, has taken me years to bring to perfection. “You sleeping on the typewriter again?” she asked, obviously unfamiliar with traditional thinking styles of writers.