Editor's note:
      Last week's story about the Town Council vote on the highway garage site did not include all the council members' comments due to space limitations.
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Council votes to site highway garage at Taylor Point site
By Tom Shevlin
      Island residents will fi- nally have the opportunity to approve the location of the town's controversial highway barn project. After more than two decades, one failed referendum, and countless debates, the town council voted in a split 3- 2 decision Monday in favor of locating the town's new high...
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This week in Island history
Week of July 3
Compiled by Sue Maden
      The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago from the Newport Daily News came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
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