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TAKING A BREATHER: ESPN alum Kate Fagan takes audience questions about Madison Holleran’s story and how the internet and sports affect mental health.
Award-winning journalist discusses mental health in “Life Instagrammed” talk
Warwick Veterans Middle School welcomed  award-winning sports journalist Kate Fagan for “Life Instagrammed” on Wednesday - a talk on social media, perfectionism and mental health, … more
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VIEW FROM ON HIGH: The parade crosses in front of City Hall as seen from the second floor of the building.
Hundreds stroll first ever rolling Apponaug festival
Mayor Frank Picozzi was fearful of running behind Saturday morning for the first ever winter festival rolling into Apponaug at 9 a.m. He arrived at City Hall shortly after 7:30 to discover the … more
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WHO'S NAUGHTY, WHO'S NICE: Santa Dave Bennett and Santa Paul Evans compare notes as Elf Matt LaMountain looks on, during photos with Santa on Saturday at the Warwick Beacon. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Santa & #1 Elf unveiled
The secret is out: Representative David Bennett is really Santa and Senator Matthew LaMountain is his number one elf. The pair visited the Warwick Beacon office Saturday for … more
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Spotlight on accomplishments
The City Council got a snapshot of Warwick Schools Monday that covered scores, high performing schools, awards and recognitions, developments in technology, curriculum, building renovations and … more
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SURVEYING IMPROVEMENTS: Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur and Warwick Neck Elementary Principal Frank Galligan stand on a widened section of Rocky Point Avenue that is designed as a drop off and pick up for students. (Warwick Beacon photos)
W. Neck School drop off improved, but will parents follow rules?
The consensus among parents, crossing guards, Principal Frank Galligan and Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur is that Warwick Neck School drop off and pickups are safer now that the city has widened the … more
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GOING A BIT OVER: Solar-powered speed limit signs, such as this one near Warwick Neck Elementary School, have been a popular item for council members to spend their ARPA money on. (Warwick Beacon photos)
How would you spend $200,000?
As the holiday season begins and children throughout Warwick make their wish lists, members of the Warwick City Council are looking to cross infrastructure projects throughout the city off of their … more
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NO STOPPING HER: John and Heather Lynch were up early Thanksgiving morning as were more than 500 runners and walkers for the 10th annual Warwick Rotary Club turkey trot at City Park. Heather, who uses a cane, not only completed the course but also participated, as seen here, in the warm up calisthenics. (Warwick Beacon photos)
No starting gun, but turkeys took off at Thanksgiving trot
When retired Warwick elementary school teacher and Warwick Rotary Club member Tom Sanford proposed a Thanksgiving morning turkey trot as a means of raising charitable funds, his plan was to team up … more
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FOREVER THANKFUL: Rachel Drane, left, and Terry Perrotta, recipients of organ donations tell their stories at a New England Donor Services event directed at getting more people to register as organ donors. (Cranston Herald photos)
Unlikely to happen, but you could save a life
Two women, one who wouldn’t have lived to celebrate her second birthday and the other hours away from dying gave thanks for their lives last Tuesday and urged people to register as tissue and … more
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TURKEYS BY THE BOXLOAD: In preparation of Saturday’s distribution of more than 200 turkeys and bags with all the fixings, courtesy of Stop & Shop, Boys and Girls Clubs executive director Lara D’Antuono and board members Tom Sweeney and Bradford Connor unpack the frozen birds.
‘No one is left out’
Westbay Community Action and the Warwick Boys and Girls Clubs ensured a plentiful Thanksgiving for hundreds of families Saturday as they distributed food from Westbay offices on Jefferson Boulevard … more
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Iftikhar Ahmad
Director gives glowing report of airport developments
Iftikhar Ahmad, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, likes to think of Green Airport as the little engine that could. He made the analogy when addressing Warwick Rotary … more
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ROOM FOR ONE MORE SIGN? Indicative of the keen interest in local elective positions this year, signs promoting the candidacies of Democratic, Republican and independent office seekers crowd a vacant lot at the intersection of Warwick Avenue and Betsy Williams Drive. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Down to the wire
The pandemic has done more than ignite a supercharged housing market, inflicted a non recoverable loss in the education of our children and changed the workplace. It has also spawned a crop of … more
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