SMITHFIELD A disabled Vietnam veteran with long roots in the community received a $25,000 settlement and a written apology from the town he holds dear after the superintendent unceremoniously barred him from school grounds a move that he says prevented him from casting a primary ballot and getting a COVID vaccine at the high school.
The Town of Smithfield, its school district and Supt. Judith Paolucci this week reached a $25,000 settlement with 72-year-old Alfred Costantino, a former Navy Seabee who has lived in town for more than 65 years.
In reaching the settlement, the parties drafted a joint statement signed by Costantino and Paolucci.
12/9/2020
Smithfield introduced to new Pleasant View Elementary
McCabe Elementary School teachers, students and staff watch as the ceremonial tallest truss is added to the school’s addition Monday. (Breeze photo by Jacquelyn Moorehead)
SMITHFIELD – Students from McCabe and Winsor Elementary schools cheered as construction workers lowered a wooden truss topped with a pine tree onto the McCabe School’s addition, in a symbolic gesture on the joining of the school with Winsor Elementary to create the new Pleasant View Elementary School.
Administrators, town and school officials, and students from McCabe and Winsor watched as crews lowered the highest truss onto the addition at McCabe Elementary School, 100 Pleasant View Ave., on Monday, to commemorate the successful build.