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Cranston Residents Want To Kick People Out Of Homeless Shelter

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Residents of Cranston–my hometown, woot!–are upset because sex offenders are living in a local homeless shelter located about a half mile away from a school.  To give you an idea of what that means, Cranston is approximately 28 square miles.  And there are 24 public schools in the city, plus a bunch of private ones …

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Library, Out Of Branches To Threaten, Now Wants To Close Downtown

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About a hundred and twenty library staff are going to get layoff notices this week.  Not that they’re all going to be out of a job, thankfully; the library is starting to transition the nine neighborhood branches to city control (and ultimately, it seems, to the non-profit Providence Community Library, though the mayor hasn’t actually …

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