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NORTH PROVIDENCE – This town is still a bedroom community and should stay as such, say members of the Town Council, who are voicing strong concerns about a seemingly relatively new phenomenon of restaurants functioning as disruptive nightclubs.
“The issue we’re facing in this town is these places thinking they can run like nightclubs,” Council President Dino Autiello told The Breeze. “This is becoming a problem.”
Unfortunately, he said, business owners are coming before the council and misrepresenting what they plan to do, and the resulting outcomes are leading to diminished quality of life in a town where residential neighborhoods back right up to the establishments.
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NORTH PROVIDENCE – Local police are conceding that they haven’t been ticketing motorists for infractions as they typically would without a pandemic, due largely to fear over contracting coronavirus.
But with officers now vaccinated, and the world emerging from COVID-19, they say they’ll get those ticketing efforts back into gear.
Deputy Chief Alfredo Ruggiero made the concession during the Town Council’s “speed bump summit” last Thursday, March 11. He told council members that there had been 72 police posts over the previous five days since Mayor Charles Lombardi told police they need to ramp up their efforts.
Lombardi said officials should give police some time to address his recent requests for more enforcement, waiting some weeks to call them back for an update. He said that prior to this month’s ticketing spree, there is “no way” police have come close to 72 posts over a five-day period in the past six months.