St. Michael's school to hold open house
      St. Michael's Country Day School will hold a "Campus and Camp" open house - a combination Admission and Summer Camp show-and-tell on Saturday, Feb. 3, from 9 a.m. to noon. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet other parents, talk with teachers in their classrooms, and tour the facilities, in...
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Winter forest program set to run in Middletown
      The Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown will sponsor a program this Saturday, Jan. 28, called "Reading the Winter Forest," with naturalist Garry Plunkett. The program runs from 1 to 3 p.m. Join forest ecologist Garry Plunkett for a talk on winter tree identification, followed by a walk on the trai...
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Fishing night at PAC
      The Jamestown Striper Club will host a video presentation with live narration by Mike Laptew, the "Diving Fisherman." The show is called "A Fish-Eye's View of Jamestown Hot Spots." Laptew's videos have been called "incredible and truly mesmerizing.
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Child safety week upcoming
      Valentine's Day is just around the corner. This year, in addition to sending cards and eating chocolates, celebrate Child Passenger Safety Week from Feb. 11 to 17. Show children how much they are loved by making sure they are safe when they ride in a car.
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West talks politics at art museum
      Darrell West, the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and the director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, will assess the state and national political outlook heading into the elections during the "Art of Politics: The Political Landscape of 2...
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Tall ships lecture tonight
      The Friends of the Jamestown Library will present Vice Admiral Thomas Weschler, co-chair of Amica Insurance Tall Ships Rhode Island 2007 tonight, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the library. Vice Admiral Weschler will discuss the upcoming festival where up to 30 tall ships are expected to fill Newport Ha...
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Library film series continues
      The second offering in the library's foreign film series will be the French film "Le Diner de Cons" on Thursday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m. Janet Maslin of the New York Times wrote: "Francis Veber's giddy, lightweight odd-couple comedies are guilty pleasures. Enough French moviegoers know that to have made...
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Book Fair
      Jamestown Schools will be holding a book fair Wednesday, Jan. 31 to Friday, Feb. 2. There will be evening shopping hours at Melrose School on Feb. 2 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. There will be books for all ages, including bestsellers for adults.
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