Tag: Woonsocket City Council
Report: Woonsocket bans homeless encampments on city property
WOONSOCKET – The City Council on Monday passed a pair of measures to address the homeless crisis, including banning encampments on city property, WPRI-TV...
Nunez named executive director of R.I. Board of Elections
Even after a nationwide search, the state elections agency didn’t end up straying far from home for its new leader.
In fact, the newly named...
Woonsocket finance director fired days after mayor’s resignation
WOONSOCKET – Cindy Johnston, the city’s finance director, has been fired, Interim Mayor Christopher Beauchamp told WPRI-TV CBS 12 Wednesday. Christine Chamberland has been...
Why Woonsocket’s sewage treatment plant can’t afford to fail
You smell it before you see it: a faint sour tinge to the breeze blowing out from the Woonsocket Wastewater Treatment Facility.
It’s hardly a...
Goldman Group acquires former Woonsocket Middle School for $1M
WOONSOCKET – A Boston-based real estate company called The Goldman Group announced that it recently acquired the former Woonsocket Middle School, with plans to...
Report: Woonsocket City Council postpones vote on removing mayor
WOONSOCKET – The City Council postponed voting Tuesday on a resolution that would have removed Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt from office, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported.
The...
32 apartments planned after former Woonsocket church and rectory sell for...
WOONSOCKET – The former Sacred Heart Church at 415 Olo St. was recently sold for $510,000, as a local real estate and property management...
Woonsocket seeks City Council approval for LED streetlights
WOONSOCKET – Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt announced that the city is seeking City Council approval to enter into an agreement with the Partnership for Rhode...
AG sues Woonsocket City Council for OMA violation
PROVIDENCE - Attorney General Peter F. Neronha on Friday said his office has filed a lawsuit claiming the Woonsocket City Council has “willfully or...