PAWTUCKET If you’re going to McCoy Stadium to get a COVID-19 test, beware of the speed camera.
Hundreds of motorists have discovered the hard way that the path to the testing site leads past Jenks Middle School on Division Street, where a speed camera is stationed just beyond the center-field wall parking lot.
“I’m not looking at the speed-limit signs; I’m looking for the COVID signs,” said Jim Lowder of Warwick of his trip to McCoy last month. Lowder was clocked going 33 mph in a 20-mph zone on Dec. 3.
“A week or two later I get a $50 ticket in the mail, he said. I m like: ‘What the heck?’”
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EAST PROVIDENCE The owner of an indoor aquatics center with a state-of-the-art air-circulation system is imploring the state to follow federal guidelines for swimming pools and allow her to reopen.
Susan Pascale-Frechette cites the Centers for Disease Control directives for pools, adding that she wasn’t initially included on the list of indoor sporting facilities that have had to close for Gov. Gina Raimondo’s now three-week “pause” – and was added only after she started asking questions.
“All you’re doing is bringing a person into a chlorinated pool where the virus doesn’t live,” said Pascale-Frechette, owner of Pods Swimming on Commercial Way. “And if you have an air-handler unit that brings 100% outside air in, there’s no concern.”
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KATC investigative team wins Emmy
and last updated 2020-12-15 20:27:42-05
LAFAYETTE, La. â KATC s investigative team has won an Emmy.
Last night, at the The 44th Annual Suncoast Regional Emmy® Awards, it was announced that the team of Jim Hummel, Justin Terro, Wynce Nolley and David Hilbun had won the award for Investigative Report â Single Story.
The Emmy was awarded to the Body of Evidence story. In that story, Hummel examines permits issued for cremations of homicide victims in Louisiana, despite a state law that prohibits that.
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