Oh Happy Day....could not be more pleased to see Kevin Maloney and Colin O'Sullivan's names listed for TC. Two men who possess the qualities we need. Intelligence, selflessness, civic mindedness. Delighted to see they chose to run as independents. Being free from the constraints of party ties will be just what the doctor ordered for NK.

I hope Patch can do short bio/interview with each candidate in the run-up to the November elections.

What a slate for us to choose from. Is the Town getting environmental credits from the State for recycling old candidates? Maybe during this cycle maybe more notice will go out for voting on Town matters.

Finally a slate to be excited about! We've seen what our town's Democrats and Republicans have given us. Now,we have an opportunity to see what some honest independent thinkers can accomplish.Colin O'Sullivan,
Kevin Maloney, and Rick Thompson have demonstrated their concern for North Kingstown's residents and our quality of life. I believe they will continue to work tirelessly to preserve the town we chose to live in. They have my vote!

What is Ken Carter doing running for School Committee? A Rep. to school committee post? I think someone needs to talk to him. He brings nothing but tired politics to the table.

Larry Ceresi (Independent)
Dorman Hayes (Independent)
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YEAH, THATS THE TICKET!

I was kidding, Larry has an excellent decision track record. I challenge you to CITE otherwise. Be specific. I always speak the truth, so CITE examples when I didnt. And finally, mister/mrs nonspecific, CITE the "retreads" and "shills" you talk about.

come on watch, you know what larry is doing, he is trying to ride the wave of independents that are running. highflyer is right on the money with his assessment.

Huh? That looks like conspiracy theory nonsense to me. I'm seeing a man who has won two elections, served well on our school board starting with ousting that POS Halley and keeping costs down while maintaining smooth operations all around. No scandals. Ceresi has done a good job, and now he would like to run for town council. I say good luck and I'm sure he'll do a great job there too.

Toby Aaron
What we really need is to elect people who are strategic thinkers, we do not need people serving that "just do the do"
This community deserves a shot in the arm. We have so many great assets. What we have to do is to figure out a way to market those assets so that we will attract new home owners, businesses, and tourists. Although I harp on the sewer additions, even in a down economy it is all of our responsibilities to get on the band wagon and create some awareness for this wonderful community.
Who is going to step to the plate?

Quote from Dick Welch: "I’ve owned my own construction company for the past 25 years and have never once had to hire an attorney and never once went to court."
There is a reason for this. Read on. I hired Dick (Richard) Welch aka Apple Construction to do a huge renovation for me in Wakefield, RI in 2004. We had to ask him to "cease construction work on our property" because of the substandard quality of the work, the slow rate of progress, outright errors, and the lack of close supervision of subcontractor's work. Even worse and more importantly we also discovered that we paid for materials and work that was not delivered and/ or not completed, billed twice for same items, and grossly overcharged.
We had several construction professionals review the work he had done and a lot of the work needed to be torn out and redone. In the end Dick Welch, Richard Welch aka Apple Construction cost us approx. $50, 000. We tried to re-coup some of our losses through legal venues (i.e. sue him) but we discovered that his guy had ALL of his assests (cash, checking, houses, business, etc.) in his wife's name! We couldn't touch him - - - - This may explain why he has not been in court for his construction business!

OUCH, Dick W., NKGOP Watch.....say it ain't so, say it ain't so!!

LOL @ ToNKa & pfitzmaurice. I'm calling shenanigans on this story because it doesn't make a lick of sense and is based on a preschooler's knowledge of how companies are structured and how our legal system works.

First of all, If you hired Apple Construction you wouldn't be able to sue Dick Welch. You would sue Apple Construction. That's one of the main reasons companies incorporate or at the very least become an LLC. At that point it doesn't matter who has the assets because you can only go after the companies assets. If the situation was truly as described you could have easily sued.

Hmmmm. Who to believe ... who to believe. A highly-scrutinized public representative making an easily verifiable statement or an anonymous poster on a blog?

I'm not even a Democrat but this kind of silliness just makes us all look bad.

Melvoid Benson running for anything is just ludacris! Whatever this woman may have done in the past, in whatever capacity, is just that...in the past. She can no longer serve the students, faculty, parents and taxpayers of North Kingstown in a competent manor. Just this year she asked questions about plans for the second floor at DES. There is no second floor. Some of her derogatory comments and questions to people making presentations in front of the committee are just embarrassing. Let's hope that people wake up and don't just go by name recognition. She may have been great once, but it's time for her to go. This is not the year to vote uninformed!

I hope Carter AND benson win. They can join Mudge and we can make the SC meetings pay per view! Before long Welch will have a massive coronary, and that show can charge double! Ceresi will get up to flee, but will end up flat on his bad back, helpless, and he'll have a stroke. All the while monotone-kim will be droning on....

I cannot wait!

If you check with the RI Secretary of State you will find that what Dick Welch calls his construction company "Apple Construction Corp" - is actually not a corporation at all. True for RI Contractor's Registration Board.

The school committee needs more democrats in the election.