Marina Hosts Boating Safety Day

Saturday, May 19, is the fifth annual event to kick off the 2012 boating season; Brewer's Cove Haven Marina in Barrington hosts the event.

Harbormasters in Barrington and East Providence present their fifth annual Boating Safety Day on Saturday, May 19. Brewer’s Cove Haven Marina on Narragansett Avenue in Barrington next door to Haines Memorial State Park is the host. The event serves as a kick-off to the 2012 boating season. The event runs from 10 am to 2 pm — rain or shine. Land exhibits will move indoors if it rains. “Fifteen unique boats at the docks will provide on-the-water experiences,” said Barrington Harbormaster Raymond Sousa. He describes the experiences as “fun and a boating education for children and adults as they climb aboard high technology-laced rescue craft from the Coast Guard and fire department. You’ll also see firefighting and rescue boats, and boat …

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Kids Get Chance to Dance at PPAC

29 Hampden Meadows School students dance Tuesday night on the Providence Performing Arts Center stage.

More than two dozen Hampden Meadows School students got a chance to dance at PPAC (Providence Performing Arts Center) Tuesday night. The opportunity came through the program called Chance to Dance, said Sarah O’Brien, a parent. “You can check out their website for information on their mission,” she said. In short, Chance to Dance is a 26-year-old project operated by the Rhode Island Dance Alliance that brings dance and live accompaniment into Hampden Meadows and other schools in the state on a weekly basis throughout the year, O’Brien said. “The early-morning enrichment program is an opportunity for kids who wouldn't necessarily be in typical dance classes,” she said. There are no tights and special shoes required. Anyone can join for the …

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World of Courses Awaits Students

Barrington High School students could start taking online courses next year offered by The VHS Collaborative -- a nonprofit that offers courses and teachers from around the world.

Up to five Barrington High School students will be able to learn virtually next fall. They might be studying with students from around the world. Their teacher could be in California or Canada or China. The school district has been approved to become part of the Virtual High School Global Consortium -- an educational nonprofit that changed its name to The VHS Collaborative about a week ago. It offers hundreds of high school and middle schools that offers a catalog of hundreds of courses for students to take online. The collaborative started in 1996 in Maynard, Mass., with a federal education grant. See a story in Seen Magazine on the consortium's history and development. Click here for the collaborative's blog. Barrington has been approved…

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Two Wallets, Fishing Knife Reported Stolen

Thefts of wallets and a fishing knife reported to Barrington police.

Wallets swiped from YMCA locker room Maybe locking the lockers would help. Two wallets were reported stolen from unlocked lockers at the Bayside YMCA on West Street on the same evening last week. The thefts also occurred in the same time period, according to the Barrington police. A West Warwick man, 20, said he used the YMCA between 6 and 8 pm on Wednesday, May 9. He said he left his wallet in a pocket in a pair of jeans he hung in the locker, police said. A Providence man, 25, said he left his clothes hanging in a locker as well while he used the YMCA from around 6 to 7:10 pm. He did not discover that his wallet was missing until he attempted to make a purchase at the CVS Pharmacy around 8 pm. The West Warwick man said he lost about $20 …

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Cash For Park's 'Final Plan' OKd

The Barrington Town Council approves $60,000 for the development of a 'final plan' for Police Cove park to be sent to CRMC and DOT for approvals.

Another step has been taken to create a park at Police Cove in Barrington. The Town Council approved on Monday night a new $60,000 contract with the consulting firm, Vanasse Hanglin Brustlin, that has been working with the Police Cove Park Committee. Land-use specialist Steve Derderian of VHB will now take the preferred concept plan presented to the Town Council in March and complete a “final plan” for submission to the Coastal Resources Management Council and the RI Department of Transportation, which need to approve the plan. The final plan also will be used to bid out the construction of the park, estimated at around $750,000. At the same time, the boat ramp at Police Cove used in the warm weather months by fire rescue boats will be …

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Affordable Housing Assailed, Explained

The Barrington Housing Board of Trustees turns its monthly meeting into a public forum on affordable housing in this community.

An affordable-housing development may never be approved for the Sowams Nursery property off of Sowams Road in Barrington – a plan has not been submitted yet despite a preliminary proposal aired by the East Bay Community Development Corporation several weeks ago. But the possibility of this 56-unit rental development served as a catalyst Tuesday night for a wide-ranging and sometimes rambling discussion of affordable housing in Barrington and the town’s Comprehensive Plan and Affordable Housing Production Plan. Affordable housing was the focus of a public forum held by the Barrington Housing Board of Trustees in the Council Chamber in Town Hall. It was set up to answer questions from prospective neighbors of the Sowams development and other…

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Five Things to Know Today

Films at Library; Farmers Market; Active Older Adult Day at YMCA

The Barrington Public Library hosts two movies; the Farmers Market at Haines Memorial State Park opens for the seasion; the YMCA celebrates older adults' active lifestyle.

The May matinee film series on Cary Grant continues today at 2 pm in the Barrington library auditorium. Grant stars in “Notorious” with Ingrid Bergman, a story about a U.S. intelligence agent asking a woman with a checkered past to spy on some of her late father’s Nazi colleagues in Rio de Janeiro. The Bayside YMCA celebrates Active Older Adult Day with a health fair starting at 9 am and a luncheon and speaker from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. All activities are free. You don’t have to be a member. “Mr. Holland’s Opus” continues the series, Teachers in Film, tonight at 7 in the Barrington Public Library auditorium. Richard Dreyfus stars in this much acclaimed film about a music teacher who always dreamed of being a composer but finds the true meaning…

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