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Local baker wins big on Food
Network's 'Cake Wars.'
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SWEET VICTORY
BREEZE PHOTO BY BILL MURPHY
Woonsocket High School senior
MICHAEL COLON, right, lifts
his daughter, SOPHIA, as he
celebrates receiving his diploma
at the Woonsocket High School
graduation ceremony at Barry
Field in Woonsocket last Friday.
See story and photos on Page
13.
BREEZE PHOTO BY BILL MURPHY
CONNOR LANGTON gives a thumbs-up after receiving
his diploma during the North Smithfield High School
Graduation ceremony last Friday. See more on Page 10.
BREEZE PHOTO BY RICHARD MCCAFFREY
Beacon Charter School for the Arts graduates ELIZABETH WOODIE
and DEREK LUSSIER pose for a picture after the school's commence-
ment ceremony at the Stadium Theatre on June 8. See more on Page 6.
Graduation
celebration
SOLSTICE FESTIVAL
Enjoy Celtic and world music
at Diamond Hill Park.
LIVING
Windmill
appeal
dismissed,
but legal
questions
abound
NORTH SMITHFIELD – Following
the advice of stand-in legal counsel,
the North Smithfield Zoning Board
dismissed an appeal by abutters over
the Planning Board's recommended
approval of a 465-foot windmill on Old
Smithfield Road.
The decision comes on the heels of
a move by Wind Energy Development
Inc. or WED – the North Kingstown
firm behind the project – to challenge
the Town Council's decision to place a
mortorium on wind energy proposals in
town in state Superior Court.
The manuevering surrounds a request
by resident Ruth Pacheco to erect the
structure on her 50-acre farm, a project
she's argued would allow her to keep
the land as open space, rather than
divide it and sell it off to developers.
Pacheco's neighbors, opposed to the
plan, argue that the windmill would be
By SANDY SEOANE
Valley Breeze Staff Writer
sandy@valleybreeze.com
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