Bristol Eyes Professional Planner for Community Development
Editorial argues Bristol should hire a professional planner as director of community development to boost industrial renewal and long range planning. It highlights federal grants, local economic development groups, and historic preservation zoning as tools to revitalize downtown and raise property values, leveraging unique assets.
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Providence
Newport
Bristol tax reform urged to base levies on value
A reader from Bristol argues for a redistribution of the tax base, urging property and trailer taxes to reflect value, taxing boats per state law, and extending sewer charges. The letter calls for real estate reevaluation and more equitable burden sharing amid stalled home value assessments. It also praises Rep Parella for fishing pier projects and harbor work, and criticizes municipal upkeep at Andrews School and Town employee pay raises.
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Bristol
Bristol High School
Gaetano Parella
Colt State Park
East Bay
Rep. Parella
State Dept of Natural Resources
Parella pushes tax break to fund education
Rep Gae tano Parella urges Congress to allow a federal income tax deduction for college tuition. He warns rising costs and dwindling scholarships push qualified students away from higher education and into the crowded job market.
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Gaetano D. Parella
R-Dist
Bristol
Warren
Congress
Parella
Bristol Phoenix Historical Weekly Listing
Bristol Phoenix established 1837 published weekly on Thursdays under publisher R S Bosworth Jr and editors Geoffrey Davis and Doug Fellow. Subscriptions priced at $10 yearly with second class postage paid Bristol R I 02809.
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R.S. Bosworth, Jr
Geoffrey Davis
Doug
Bristol
Bristol Fifty Years Ago A Personal Look at 1825 Town Life
A first person sketch recalls Bristol in 1825 with kinship networks the slave past and wealth from harbor trade. It describes streets once Pump lane Goose lane Goree lane and big alley, privateer era with Yankee and McDonough prizes, ship masters youth options at sea, rivalries between Bristol Clams and Warren Mussels, and autumn Muster on the Common.
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Bristol
Goree
New England
England
Yankee
McDonough
DeWolfs
Jacob Babbitt
John Smith
Robert
Rogers
Nicholas Peck
West India
Babbitt’s Wharf
Great West
Goose Lane
Goree Lane
Mount Lane
Church Lane
Talley’s Corner
Down Town
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