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By GINA MACRIS; Journal Staff Writer Unless school officials find cost-effective transportation for Prudence Island students, the town won't be allowed to close the island school.

By Gina Macris; Journal Staff Writer The Portsmouth School Committee will have to keep running the one- room schoolhouse until it can find "suitable" transportation in accordance with state law.

Rhode Island's only one-room school might bite the dust. The numbers on the blackboard describe the writing on the wall.

By Gina Macris; Journal Staff Writer Island residents say the School Department decision to close the one-room schoolhouse creates a 10-hour day - that includes four hours of travel -for their children.