really be something to see,” said Cindy.
“You can’t just trim it a little bit,” I asked, “you did a good job last time.”
“It’s beyond anything I could possibly do,” said Cindy.
“Well, you know this whole pandemic makes it hard for a guy to get a haircut,” he said, “ya know, it’s hard to get an appointment. Just sayin’.”
“Ahem, places are open,” she said.
With this little conversation the gauntlet had been thrown down, and unbeknownst to my wife her husband had shifted gears, hard; he’d power-shifted from first to second gear. I’d pushed the haircut thing as far as I possibly could and knew it was time to do something. (For those of you who have driven a stick shift, I know you get the drift of this power shifting metaphor.) The next morning while taking Maddox out for a run, I called Pete’s Barber Shop in Peace Dale to finally make an appointment. As it turned out, Pete Tsagaroulis who I’ve known since he was a student at Narragansett Hi
EAST PROVIDENCE â When the members of the Narragansett High School girls swim team dove into the pool for their first practice in January, the challenges of the last two years and the doubts surrounding whether this season would even happen faded away quickly.Â
âThe first practice, once we saw everybody in the pool, we knew,â senior Julia Highcove said. âWe started off doing sprints just to see where everyone was. Immediately we looked at each other and were like, âWow, this is going to be awesome.ââ
And it was.Â
In a realigned division with a newly stocked roster, the Mariners delivered an undefeated season and capped it off on Sunday with a 61-32 victory over Mt. Hope for the Division III championship at Pods Swimming.Â
NARRAGANSETT â The Narragansett School System (NSS) last week proposed a $33.2 million FY 2022 budget, a spending plan that reflects pandemic recovery, staff and benefit increases, school enrollment and notable capital projects to improve filtration across the districtâs three schools.
While the proposed $33.2 million budget is an increase of about $975,000, or about 3 percent, over last yearâs spending total at the schools, NSS Superintendent Peter Cummings predicts the town appropriation to the schoolsâ budget would only increase by about $478,200, or 1.79 percent, this year, if the budget is approved as proposed. The school department funds its annual budgets with sources in addition to the townâs annual appropriation, including state aid and revenue.
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Marty Ryan, who retired in 2009 after 30 years as an athletic director, first in Wells and later in Kennebunk, died Friday. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer, file
Marty Ryan of Wells, a longtime southern Maine athletic director and influential advocate for interscholastic athletics statewide, died on Friday. He was 73.
The Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, which Ryan served as executive director for 32 years, confirmed his death, as did his son, Tim.
Marty Ryan at his induction into the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame in 2011
Photo courtesy of Tim Ryan
Beyond his work in statewide interscholastic sports, Ryan was athletic director for high school sports in Wells and Kennebunk for a combined 29 years, and was named Athletic Director of the Year in 2005 by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.
Influential Maine athletic director Marty Ryan dies at 73
He served as executive director of the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association for three decades, and as athletic director in Wells and Kennebunk schools.
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Marty Ryan, who retired in 2009 after 30 years as an athletic director, first in Wells and later in Kennebunk, died Friday. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer, file
Marty Ryan of Wells, a longtime southern Maine athletic director and influential advocate for interscholastic athletics statewide, died on Friday. He was 73.
The Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, which Ryan served as executive director for 32 years, confirmed his death, as did his son, Tim.