Council should locate the barn
      The intent of my statement during Open Forum at the Jamestown Town Council meeting on April 9, 2007 and reported in the Jamestown Press on April 12, 2007 was misunderstood by the reporter.
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Thanks for helping with the cleanup
      The Jamestown Conservation Commission would like to express our appreciation for all those who made our annual Earth Day Shoreline Cleanup a success this past Saturday: the Town for allowing us to use the Recreation Center as a rallying point, Slice of Heaven for getting us started with coffee and ...
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Lessons learned from highway barn saga
      Late in 1997 the council began the seemingly straightforward process of building a much-needed highway barn on lot 47, the lot purchased for the purpose 10 years earlier. But some north end residents objected vehemently and asked if a highway barn on lot 47 would endanger their wells. The council h...
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Jamestown We should make every day Earth Day
      This past Friday, April 20, the pre-K and preschool classes at the Jamestown Early Learning Center went out on a litter walk. We have been learning all about our Earth and how to keep it clean so we decided to find out how clean Jamestown was. We noticed that there was a lot of litter such as plast...
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Panel chair welcomes Brennan back to table
      Yesterday, a motion was made that questioned the participation of the Jamestown liaison, Bucky Brennan, in a North Kingstown school meeting, using the town charter-defining language in an opinion offered by the school committee solicitor of the North Kingstown school committee as basis for Mr. Bren...
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Thanks to fire department volunteers
      I would like to thank and acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the Jamestown Volunteer Fire Department during the storm last week. As I was out of town last week, Deputy Chief Ken Gladding and Deputy Chief Howie Tighe were instrumental in handling the many and varied situations that arose al...
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Town retains Tree City rating
      The Jamestown Tree Preservation and Protection Committee announced this week that Jamestown has been named a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation. Jamestown has met the four standards required to be a Tree City USA, which are having a tree board or department, a tree care ordinance, ...
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