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Today in RI history: School bus carrying children crashes in East Greenwich

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By Thomas J. Morgan

A year ago today:
A bus carrying elementary school children from Providence's Jewish Community Day School goes over a guardrail, rides down an embankment, and crashes against a tree on Route 4 in East Greenwich, injuring the 26 children and 6 adults on board.

5 years ago today:
A Warwick developer is heading up a project that would bring 800,000 square feet of new restaurants, retail stores, offices and hotel rooms to Johnston Commons, at the junction of Route 295 and Hartford Avenue.

25 years ago today:
Three Rhode Island men are rescued by a fishing boat after their own vessel sinks southeast of Block Island. The men, aboard the 24-foot White Knuckles, radioed for help at 3:30 p.m.


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