Last Week In NK: Chief Mulligan Honored, New Tenant For Wickford?

Tenant For Wickford Marketplace? Possibly

One of the more hopeful bits of information at the Wickford Economic Development Advisory Board's first meeting last week was word of interest from a retailer in the space that was Ryan's Market for decades, more recently Wickford Marketplace.

Tuesday, Sept. 3, 8:42 a.m. – A State Street woman told police the maintenance man at her complex found nails under each of her car tires. No other nails were found in the lot. The woman said someone had put shaving cream on her car  the previous week.

Christopher "Pop" Popoloski, 45, passed away suddenly Friday. A resident of Providence and its unofficial mayor, he was a son of Georleen "Jolli" Howlett former owner of Botanica Flowers, E.G. and of North Kingstown and Louis Popoloski of Scituate.

Superior Court Judge William E. Carnes Jr. has ordered a lawyer to pay $1,000 to the courts for releasing to the media a confidential report regarding Kimberly Fry, the North Kingstown mother convicted of killing her daughter in 2011.

The plan to provide high-speed ferry service from Quonset to Block Island is welcomed by the North Kingstown Town Council and the Quonset Development Corp., but others in Narragansett, Block Island and New London are less than enthusiastic.

North Kingstown High School is getting ready for its closeup. Once every 10 years, the high school takes part in an elaborate accreditation process culminating in a visit by a panel of educators. NKHS’s visit is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 22, through Wednesday, Sept. 25.

To hear North Kingstown Police Chief Tom Mulligan tell it, he didn’t do anything special. In fact, when asked to speak about it, Mulligan seemed a little surprised about all the fuss.