Colt Memorial High School Decline Alarms Bristol Officials
Judy Gerling recounts Samuel Pomeroy Colt’s gift of a marble Bristol high school and a memorial fund for upkeep. Decades later the building shows severe disrepair with dead pigeons, mold, obscenities, and cracked woodwork, prompting comparison to a neglected city block.
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Samuel Pomeroy Colt
Bristol
Colt Memorial High School
New England
Colt School
South Providence
Louis Annarummo
Fire violations found at Colt Memorial School
Rhode Island Fire Marshal reports a May 1975 tag on a front hallway fire extinguisher at Colt Memorial School, violating annual inspection laws. State official Tom Alegria stresses public buildings must be checked yearly. school leadership faces possible charges, fines, or jail for neglect. Maintenance chief Larry Papi and interim aide Ennis Bisbane unavailable for comment. A second hazard noted is a canvas fire hose in the first hallway.
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Colt Memorial School
Rhode Island
Tom Alegria
State Fire Marshal’s Office
Ennis Bisbane
Edward Travers
Larry Papi
Bite the bullet schools face council over budget crisis
The Town Council and School Committee met in private to discuss the School Department’s fiscal crisis and a potential extra town appropriation. Committee sources say council members were unsympathetic, urging cuts and layoffs despite contracts, with threats of litigation. The meeting was not publicly announced.
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Buzz
Ennis Bisbane
Alegria
Richard Alegria
Kaiser Town Bristol plot donation discussed in Seekonk meeting
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp reached a tentative donation agreement with Roger Williams College for its Bristol plant after previously considering gifting the 19 acre site to the town of Bristol. At a July 13 meeting in Seekonk town officials voiced mixed reactions and were told the donation as a possible solution.
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Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Roger Williams College
Bristol
Kaiser
Howard Johnson’s
Seekonk
Anthony Agatiello
Agatiello
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