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CAMERON CAPRIO, 9, right, leads his friend, TYLER GUILFOYLE, 9, center, and his brother, CONNOR CAPRIO, 10, all
of Smithfield, down the hill at Stephen Olney Park in North Providence last Sunday after the region got walloped with a
snowstorm last week.
Snow riders
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Officers
from the North Providence Police
Department issued 16 tickets and
had 19 vehicles towed during the
first major snowstorm of the winter
season last week, continuing a tough
approach on parking that began last
winter.
Chief of Police David
Tikoian said owners of
an additional 16 vehicles
that were in violation
of a parking ban were
successfully contacted
to move their vehicles
from the roadway.
The 19 vehicles
towed amounted to nearly double the
10 cars towed in a storm a year ago,
the first storm after Mayor Charles
Lombardi announced that residents
who don't remove their cars during
parking bans would no longer get sec-
ond chances.
Police responded to a total of 126
calls for service from midnight last
Thursday to midnight Friday, and
investigated 12 accidents during that
24-hour period.
Police used a variety of chan-
nels to inform the public about the
parking ban beginning at 1 a.m. on
Thursday.
By KEVIN AHERNE
Valley Breeze Contributing Writer
See PARKING, Page 11
NORTH PROVIDENCE – If
the town is unable to secure the
grant funding needed to build a
new state-of-the-art athletic field
behind North Providence High
School, Mayor Charles Lombardi
says he believes residents would
support borrowing the money to
get the job done.
Lombardi, speaking to the Town
Council on Jan. 2, said as long as
officials can prove where the bor-
rowed money is going, he suspects
residents would vote to approve
such a bond issue.
The mayor said he regrets that
officials didn't simply add $1
million or $2 million for a new
field to the new school construc-
tion bond passed last election.
Replacing the field is a "top prior-
ity," he said, and the town is doing
everything it can to secure outside
funding.
"We're talking to whoever we can
to address this situation," he said.
Mayor: Borrowing money for new football
field would gain residents' support
By ETHAN SHOREY
Valley Breeze Managing Editor
ethan@valleybreeze.com
See FIELD, Page 4
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