Meet Our Candidates
Charlestown Residents United (CRU) is pleased to announce the candidates we are supporting for Charlestown town offices in the November...
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- Jun 14, 2022
Highlights from the June 13 Town Council Meeting
Fiscal Matters: Because of the reduction in the Chariho School budget (resulting from the May 10 school budget referendum), the Town...
- May 26, 2022
Deb Carney explains CRU Open Space Policy
Recently, Councilor Grace Klinger and I have been asked why we voted against conducting an appraisal of the property located on Carolina...
- May 23, 2022
Important Town Council meeting Monday, May 23
Tonight, there will be a special meeting of the Charlestown Town Council to discuss the disbursement of the Federal American Rescue Plan...
- May 10, 2022
Highlights 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 12, 2022
Town Council Meeting Review, April 11
Of the many agenda items covered at last night’s Town Council meeting, there was some good news on Charlestown’s cultural and social...
- Mar 18, 2022
Hypocrisy 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, 2022
No Fun For You! Food Trucks/Town Council Meeting Update
Among 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 14, 2022
Suspicions linger about the ‘missing’ $3M
The 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 28, 2022
Charlestown's 3 Million Dollar Mistake
Spin spin spin. Ruth Platner and her political action committee, the Charlestown Citizens Alliance, have been hard at work spinning the...
- Feb 28, 2022
Time to look under the hood, Charlestown
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing when it is held by a majority of the Charlestown Town Council. This was recently demonstrated...
- Feb 20, 2022
Food truck event will be fun for community
This letter is in response to a recent letter written by Charlestown Parks & Recreation Chairman Faith LaBossiere (“A losing venture for...
- Feb 9, 2022
Charlestown’s $3M financial management failure
When Charlestown’s outside auditors issued the FY 2021 financial statements earlier this month, they revealed an undeniable failure. It...
- Jan 23, 2022
Charlestown, we have a (budget) problem
Most of us of a certain age remember the phrase, “Houston, we have a problem,” when our country almost lost Apollo 13 and three...
- Jan 17, 2022
CCA abandons agenda and accountability
In the Jan. 5 letter, “Charlestown considers a plan for stability” by Bonnie van Slyke, it becomes apparent that the Charlestown Citizens...
- Jan 7, 2022
Jan 22 Conversation with Carney and Klinger
Town Council President Deb Carney and Town Council Member Grace Klinger invite you to meet them at the Cross Mills Public Library...
- Dec 12, 2021
Digging deeper into Charlestown’s survey
If 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, 2021
Railway Comments by Deborah Carney
Railway Comments by Deborah Carney during the November 8, 2021 Town Council Meeting During the August 10, 2021 Town Council meeting, the...
- Nov 10, 2021
Letter: CCA Bends the Truth
In a recent letter to the editor (“Charlestown one of R.I.’s fastest- growing towns,” Nov. 1), Planning Commission member Ruth Platner...
- Sep 18, 2021
Teaching Charlestown what OMA means
Sometimes in political dialogue the acronym OMA is used without being fully understood. The Open Meetings Act (OMA) was enacted by the...
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