Monday, January 7, 2013
Barrington High School teaching assistant Mai Donohue is cooking a complete Vietnamese dinner on Jan. 31 to benefit students at a Staten Island high school; students providing lots of support.
Barrington High School teaching assistant Mai Donohue will be cooking a complete Vietnamese dinner on Jan. 31 as a “Sandy Relief” fundraiser. Specifically, the fundraiser will benefit students at New Dorp High School on State Island, which was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Donohue is doing all the cooking and donating two weeks of her pay to buy the food. This is where you come in, said Michelle Pouliot, a junior at the high school. “I am a part of the Chain Reaction Club, one of the many organizations involved with Mai Donohue's cause,” she said. “We are in need of donations. Purchasing of tickets, donating raffle or silent auction items, or simple monetary donations are all welcome and greatly needed.” You can email requests for tickets…
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Grapes & Grains and Heartworks team up to collect much needed supplies for victims of Superstorm Sandy in northern New Jersey.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Victims of Superstorm Sandy in northern New Jersey got some much-needed supplies of clothing, food, water, blankets and other items straight from the heart of Barrington last Thursday. Grapes & Grains and Heartworks of Barrington collaborated on a drive to collect items for victims of the storm in the town of Rumson in Monmouth County, NJ. Rumson sits southeast of Staten Island not far from where the hurricane made landfall. The location was selected because the liquor store’s general manager, Peter Andrews, has a former girlfriend whose family lives there. The items were driven there on Thursday, Nov. 8. “It’s a town very much like Barrington,” Andrews said. “Places in that town, like some of the bars and restaurants where we used to hang…
Monday, November 5, 2012
Employees help out, and you can, too
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Monday, November 5, 2012
It's been said it's far better to have a neighbor who's near, than a brother who's far away. But in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Americans across the nation have proven to be the best neighbors and the strongest of families. This past weekend, AOL and Patch employees took an opportunity to pitch in, packing two tractor trailers worth of food, water and supplies in Dulles, VA, and Baltimore. The donations are headed to Hurricane Sandy ravaged areas in New Jersey and Long Island. Want to join the relief efforts? Click here to donate: https://donate.networkforgood.org/aol "When a catastrophe of this size hits, we all feel it, both the hundreds of us who live in the impacted towns, and our colleagues who are watching and wishing they could …
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin reminds all retail sellers, whether individual business owners or corporations, not to try to profit from the storm.
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
The following is from a press release. As Rhode Islanders continue to clean up from Superstorm Sandy, RI Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin reminds all retail sellers -- individual business owners or corporations -- not to try to profit from the storm. Rhode Island General Laws 6-13-21 broadly prohibits all retail sellers from increasing prices of any item immediately prior to or during a declared state of emergency by an amount that represents an unconscionably high price. The maximum penalty for those found to have violated the statute is a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation with an aggregate total not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for any twenty-four (24) hour period. “While we have …
Friday, November 2, 2012
By early this morning, Nov. 2, National Grid had restored all power to Barrington customers.
Every household in Barrington should have its power restored. National Grid reports on its RI outage map this morning that there are no more outages in Barrington. Late yesterday, Nov. 1, there will still a few customers still without power and an estimate that each customer would have their electricity restored by earlier today. Full restoration of power took a few days after Superstorm Sandy sideswiped Rhode Island on Monday. Although the storm caused far less damage than anticipated in the East Bay, it did knock down branches and a few trees, which pulled down electrical wires.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Check out photos from Patch sites from New Jersey to New Hampshire.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Wide swaths of the Northeast are still picking up the pieces after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the East Coast earlier this week. Patch sites up and down the coast reported the unfolding story and aftermath. Local editors and Patch users uploaded photos of the destruction. Here are just some of the Hurricane Sandy photos that ran on Patch sites from New Jersey to New Hampshire this week. Flip through to see how Sandy affected the Northeast.
Here is how donations from East Greenwich can aid victims in most affected areas.
Barrington was largely spared from catastrophic damage from Superstorm Sandy, but Rhode Island ocean communities were not so lucky and, of course, those in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were also hit very hard. Patch has gathered some local resources if you want to help in relief efforts. In Rhode Island, if you are interested in volunteering, contact Serve Rhode Island. To donate, RI Emergency Management recommends donations be made to a recognized volunteer agency of the individual's choice or you can call 2-1-1. Donations may also be made through the National Donation Management Network (NDMN). Volunteers in New Jersey are being coordinated through an emergency response hotline, 1-800-JERSEY-7 (1-800-537-7397). Alternate numbers…
As of this morning, National Grid reports that 33 'customers' in Barrington still had no electrical power even as cleanup efforts continued.
Cleanup from tropical storm Sandy continued in Barrington on Wednesday even as 33 National Grid customers scattered all over town still had no electrical power as of this morning. Most of the outages also did not have a repair crew assigned, according to the National Grid power outage map for Rhode Island. So the time for the estimated restoration of power -- shown as 6 am on Nov. 2 -- seemed to be just that, an estimate. The number of actual outages actually more than doubled during the day on Wednesday, then dropped by about a hundred overnight. The number of National Grid customers remained at about 33 with each of the 20 or so outages having an impact of no more than a household or two. While Barrington residents waited to get their …
Barrington just missed getting whacked with the full force of tropical storm Sandy. Here a few more headlines you might have missed that show the impact of the storm here.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Had your fill of tropical storm Sandy? If you haven't, here are some other headlines pulled together from eastbayri.com. Power outages persist in Barrington Barrington town manager happy with storm response Barrington’s ‘White Church’ survives Sandy Trees down around Barrington in Sandy’s aftermath Photos: Sandy hits coast with wind and waves Tree crashes into Barrington home In Barrington, Ferry Lane and Mathewson Road take on water
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The University of Rhode Island is seeking volunteers to keep an eye on 19 residential facilities without power.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The University of Rhode Island is seeking volunteers to serve as Fire Watch Detail in housing in Kingston, according to Serve Rhode Island. There are 19 residential facilities without power that need to be supervised 24/7. Those on Fire Watch Detail will walk the building hourly to inspect the fire alarm system and will be asked to keep an updated log. They will be expected to respond to any emergencies that might occur and to notify the fire department and building occupants as necessary. Starting today, Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 4 PM, volunteers will potentially be needed to work 4-hour shifts through the night, depending on when power returns to the URI campus. Shifts are: Volunteers will be asked to come to the URI Public Safety …
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