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“Right now I’d still be sleeping,” said Justin Gomes,
glancing at the clock as he sat in Mike Pallini’s classroom at Pilgrim High School. Summer school for Warwick students began
yesterday and hundreds of students, like Gomes, put their favorite summer
activities aside in an attempt to make up work and improve their grades.
“I tell my students, for the next month you put your
other things aside. Summer’s on hold,” Pallini said.
The summer program, which runs from July 7 to Aug. 7 at
Pilgrim, is made up of three classes running between 7:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.
Junior high students have the option of taking a study skills course in math or
English language arts. At the high school level, students take specific classes
ranging from general English to foreign language and world history to geometry.
This year’s program is similar to past years, though
administrators are seeing several distinctions this time around. Read More... City, FAA want to see more on runway plan
By John Howell While the Rhode Island Airport Corporation worked with
the city in developing a third option for the extension of Green Airport’s
Runway 5-23, members of the administration are reserving comment on the plan
until they get a complete picture of issues and impacts.
The Federal Aviation Administration, which will need to
include the proposal in its environmental study for it to become a viable
option, is also withholding comment until it gets a briefing on the proposal.
“We expect RIAC to submit a concept of what’s proposed,”
FAA spokesman James Peters said yesterday. Peters said if the agency was to
include the latest option – an 8,700-foot runway with the extension to the
south – for study, it would likely delay the current schedule to have a
preferred alternative selected this fall and to publish a final environmental
impact statement by the fall of 2009. Read More... The Warwick National 12-year-old all-stars had some
trouble Sunday night with the new sand put down on the infield dirt.
Luckily for National, the sand didn’t much matter at the
plate.
National committed four errors but still managed to slug
its way past Exeter/West Greenwich 7-5 in a District 3 elimination game.
“Defensively, we stunk up the joint,” said National
manager Joe Ardente. “They put some new sand down and I think it threw the kids
off. But we hit the ball.”
And on this night, that was all that mattered. National
pounded 10 hits and got contributions from nearly everybody. Seven different
players had hits, and seven players scored runs. Read More... Chariho drops West Side, 6-3
By Ed Owens Warwick West Side’s 12-year-old all-stars saw their
tournament dreams come to an end on Sunday night, dropping a 6-3 decision to
Chariho in the losers’ bracket. West Side lost its opener, 3-1, to Coventry last week and
Sunday’s setback bounced the stars from the double-elimination tournament.
“This was a good team, a solid team and there was
certainly no give-up in them,” West Side
manager Kurt Rix said. “But we just couldn’t get those key hits when we needed
them. They got on base, we didn’t. Their balls got through our infield a couple
of times and we couldn’t seem to do that.”
Like in last week’s opening-round loss to Coventry, West Side
played well on Sunday night. Just not well enough to win. Warwick got seven hits; Chariho got nine. West Side scored three runs; Chariho plated six. Warwick made two errors
in the field; Chariho played flawless defense. Read More...
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