Warwick Beacon

2 days ago | warwickonline.com | John Howell

Bids on materials for the new high schools are telling a story and those close to the projects are cautiously optimistic that the final cost of the schools won’t be anywhere near the $400 million being bandied about. So far, the steel and concrete for Pilgrim, which the School Committee awarded to Manafort Brothers of Cumberland for $16.2 million is $718,000 less than budgeted.

2 days ago | warwickonline.com | John Howell

In a first, the School Committee and the City Council were scheduled to hold a public joint meeting last night prior to taking up the mayor’s FY 26 budget starting next week. School Committee Chair Shaun Galligan said Monday he suggested the meeting after getting school finance questions from council members.

2 days ago | warwickonline.com | John Howell

Judy Salvadore’s black down jacket sporting a black cat pin was zipped up to the neck. Under that she wore a vest and under that was a double layer of T-shirts. “You know I should have brought my gloves,” she said Saturday morning as a drizzle mixed wind swept through the Airport Professional Park parking lot on Post Road not all that far from Green Airport.

2 days ago | warwickonline.com | John Howell

Is a Rhode Island bottle bill in the cards this year? Warwick State Senator Mark McKenney, who introduced the legislation in the Senate, wouldn’t have placed odds on it a month ago. But following last week’s hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment and Agriculture plus new Senate leadership, he’s hopeful. “It remains an uphill battle against a very difficult array of lobbyists and special interest groups,” said the legislator in an interview Sunday. But he’s not throwing in the towel. Sen.

2 days ago | warwickonline.com | John Howell

The retirements of two Warwick school administrators whose collective careers have spanned close to 80 years in the district were accepted Tuesday night by the Warwick School Committee with words of praise. Lynn Dambruch, whose career started as a first grade teacher at Greene School in 1985, retired as superintendent. The committee named William McCaffrey, who has been serving as interim superintendent since Dambruch took a personal leave of absence earlier this year, as acting superintendent.