News - Wickford Elementary School
NORTH KINGSTOWN -- The School Committee has voted to ask the Town Council to help stabilize the aging Wickford Elementary School. Committee Vice Chairman Larry Ceresi said it could cost $65,000 to replace a boiler and $20,000 to repair the roof of the brick building, closed in 2005 to save money.
By Paul Davis Citing an expected decline in enrollment, the School Committee decides that Wickford Elementary School will not reopen.
By Paul Davis Asset Management Commission Chairman Richard Welch says the Wickford Elementary School building could be used for town offices. NORTH KINGSTOWN -- The head of the Asset Management Commission wants to turn the shuttered Wickford Elementary School into a new Town Hall.
By Paul Davis The School Department should give the shuttered Wickford Elementary to the town, says the Republican Town Committee. NORTH KINGSTOWN -- In an unusual move, the Republican Town Committee is urging the School Department to give the shuttered Wickford Elementary School to the town.
By Paul Davis; Journal Staff Writer A 14-member board unanimously votes to save the aged school for possible future use. * * * NORTH KINGSTOWN - The shuttered Wickford Elementary School, empty for three years, could see life again as a school or a special- education center.
