City urged to move fast to avert traffic and parking crisis
A traffic consulting firm, Wilbur Smith and Associates of New Haven, urges immediate action to ease summer traffic and parking. It identifies three waterfront sites for 1,500 plus spaces and recommends banning daytime parking on congested Spring and lower Thames Streets July to Labor Day to restore lane capacity for emergency vehicles.
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James A Johnson
Wilbur Smith and Associates
New Haven
Thames
Mmaries
Queen Anne Square
Providence
Thames Street
Wellington Avenue
Paul A. Steinbrenner
Redevelopment Agency
T 0
Broadway
Pond Avenue
Marlborough Street
Spring
Touro
Spring Streets
Admiral Kalbfus
Memorial Bellevue
Town may ease zoning for Aquidneck Park Industry
Middletown considers changing or waiving setback rules at the Aquidneck Industrial Park to attract firms. Town Solicitor Joseph Going urged variances from standard setbacks to avoid zoning board delays and court challenges, stating current rules impede park development. The council ordered a public hearing next month on Going's plan.
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Tenry Vincent
Aquidneck
Middletown
Joseph B. Going
the Zoning Board of Review
Going
Aest
Zoning Board
C. BE. Maguire Inc
Providence
C. E. Maguire
Dutch child hostages return to class after four days
Dutch children freed from South Moluccan terrorists attend classes at a different school as the Bovensmilde elementary hosts four hostage teachers remain. Parents move pupils to the Reformed Church school while authorities manage the wider crisis and zoning matters proceed.
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New School
Buvyensmilde
The
Netherlands
Bovensmilde
Litte
Hovensmilde
First Cup yacht Enterprise arrives in Newport Harbor
The 12-Meter Enterprise, first to arrive, slips into Newport Harbor under a Grizzly sky. Crew report a rough Atlantic crossing with choppy seas and persistent rain, while Chaperone tows alongside guiding Enterprise into the Williams and Manchester dock. Enterprise preparations include a new work shed and mast storage as Fort Schuyler foundation sponsors its season ahead of June preliminary races.
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Newport
Enterprise
West Coast
Williams and
Manchester Dock
New York
Rom la Chaave Phato
Barbara Lloyd
Newport Harbor
Williams and Manchester
Lee's Wharf
Fort Adams
Connecticut
Rishard du Moulin
Ken Gundersen
Chaperone
Gundersen
du Moulin
Sparkman and Stephens
Mineford Yard
Fort Schuyler Foundation, Inc
Lowell North
Jamestown builds twin energy homes with solar and electric power
Michael F. Smith of Mr. Smith Associates, president of the Town Council, leads a HUD funded project in Jamestown to compare costs of two identical houses. One uses electric heating and the other solar energy with $10,000 from HUD and a $10,000 to $12,000 solar installation. Over 700 applications were filed for grants. Both homes feature extra insulation and triple glazed windows.
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Jamestown
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Michael F. Smith
Mr. Smith Associates
HUD
R.L
Department
Office of Policy Development and Research
Smith
Pemberton Avenue
Newport Electric Co
Jubilee crowds cheer Queen in London celebration
Throngs across London and Britain celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee with a procession from Buckingham Palace to St Pauls Cathedral, royal gun salutes, and a Commonwealth gathering. President Carter's son Chip and wife attend events as Uganda's Idi Amin departs.
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London
Anton Jacks
Elizabeth
Prince Philip
England
Golden State
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul's Cathedral
Charles
Margaret
Anne
Herhusband
Mark Phillips
Palace
Carthage
Temple Bar
Old City
Tower of London
St. Paul's
Gerald Ellison
Carter
Chip
Cavan
Canterbury
Donald Coggan
Britain
George VI
Idi Amin
Uganda
Windsor Great Park
New Zealand
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O'Brien
Penn Central
Bull
Sherman Streets
Memorial Boulevard
Bellevue Avenue
Admiral Kalbfus Road
Marlborough
Spring Street
Mary Street
Edward G. Corcoran
Board of Review
Corcoran
Tswelve
Minneford
City Stand
N.Y
Tuins
Donald Kohhmann
Windsor Castle
Communist Party
New Statesman Magazine
Hima
Solar Homes Inc
Spencer J. Dickinson
WIS County News
Wa State News
Naval Education and
Coddington Point
Page Flooring and Construction Co
Narragansett
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