3 days agoMeet Our CandidatesCharlestown Residents United (CRU) is pleased to announce the candidates we are supporting for Charlestown town offices in the November...
Jun 14Highlights from the June 13 Town Council MeetingFiscal Matters: Because of the reduction in the Chariho School budget (resulting from the May 10 school budget referendum), the Town...
May 26Deb Carney explains CRU Open Space PolicyRecently, Councilor Grace Klinger and I have been asked why we voted against conducting an appraisal of the property located on Carolina...
May 23Important Town Council meeting Monday, May 23Tonight, there will be a special meeting of the Charlestown Town Council to discuss the disbursement of the Federal American Rescue Plan...
May 10Highlights from the May 9 Town Council Meeting Potential Open Space Purchase The Council discussed the $2 million bond that was approved in a 2015 referendum, and whether to spend some...
Apr 12Town Council Meeting Review, April 11Of the many agenda items covered at last night’s Town Council meeting, there was some good news on Charlestown’s cultural and social...
Mar 18Hypocrisy is heavy in the CCA’s actions“I no longer listen to what people say. I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.” — Winston Churchill It’s unfortunate that...
Mar 15 No Fun For You! Food Trucks/Town Council Meeting UpdateAmong the agenda items on last night’s Town Council meeting was the hot topic of food trucks in Ninigret Park. At the previous meeting on...
Mar 14Suspicions linger about the ‘missing’ $3MThe March 7 edition of The Westerly Sun has a letter from Bonnie Van Slyke (“The truth is still missing in Charlestown”) which, like the...
Feb 28Charlestown's 3 Million Dollar MistakeSpin spin spin. Ruth Platner and her political action committee, the Charlestown Citizens Alliance, have been hard at work spinning the...
Feb 28Time to look under the hood, CharlestownA little knowledge is a dangerous thing when it is held by a majority of the Charlestown Town Council. This was recently demonstrated...
Feb 20Food truck event will be fun for communityThis letter is in response to a recent letter written by Charlestown Parks & Recreation Chairman Faith LaBossiere (“A losing venture for...
Feb 9Charlestown’s $3M financial management failureWhen Charlestown’s outside auditors issued the FY 2021 financial statements earlier this month, they revealed an undeniable failure. It...
Jan 23Charlestown, we have a (budget) problemMost of us of a certain age remember the phrase, “Houston, we have a problem,” when our country almost lost Apollo 13 and three...
Jan 17CCA abandons agenda and accountabilityIn the Jan. 5 letter, “Charlestown considers a plan for stability” by Bonnie van Slyke, it becomes apparent that the Charlestown Citizens...
Jan 7Jan 22 Conversation with Carney and KlingerTown Council President Deb Carney and Town Council Member Grace Klinger invite you to meet them at the Cross Mills Public Library...
Dec 12, 2021Digging deeper into Charlestown’s surveyIf you have lived in Charlestown for a while, you may remember the cartoon that featured a seagull with string tied around its beak with...
Nov 24, 2021Railway Comments by Deborah CarneyRailway Comments by Deborah Carney during the November 8, 2021 Town Council Meeting During the August 10, 2021 Town Council meeting, the...
Nov 10, 2021Letter: CCA Bends the TruthIn a recent letter to the editor (“Charlestown one of R.I.’s fastest- growing towns,” Nov. 1), Planning Commission member Ruth Platner...
Sep 18, 2021Teaching Charlestown what OMA meansSometimes in political dialogue the acronym OMA is used without being fully understood. The Open Meetings Act (OMA) was enacted by the...