Author Archive: Richard Brown

Harrington Hall Update 6/1/2009

At Monday’s (6/1/09) community meeting hosted by the group Keep Cranston Safe, Mayor Allan Fung announced that the Governor’s Office has agreed to stop the influx of sex offenders to the state run homeless shelter at Harrington Hall beginning on June 15th and that all of the sex offenders housed at the shelter will be moved [...]

“Nothing we do, no matter how virtuous, can be accomplished alone…” Niebuhr

On Saturday April 18, 2009  from 8:30am -12 noon the City of Cranston’s Conservation Commission in conjunction with the Pawtuxet River Authority(PRA) will be holding an Earth Day Clean Up at Furnace Hill Brook off Natick Avenue in Cranston.  Last year’s wildly successful Earth Day Clean Up along the banks of the Pawtuxet in the Howard [...]

Common Sense Grips Developer

A tanking economy? A well organized group of citizen activists? Fear of responsible elected officials putting a halt to their ill-conceived proposal dubbed “Phenix Terrace”? Or perhaps an out-of-town developer experiencing a Capra-tinged, warm and fuzzy Yuletide moment? We may never know exactly why Massachusetts-based developer E. A. Fish pulled the plug on its rather [...]

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