Central Falls, Rhode Island

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Affordable housing scarce in R.I.
Although investors may be scooping up deals on foreclosed properties, there are no bargains for many people who were displaced by the foreclosure crisis.
Teachers reflect on painful lessons
Dale Dearnley has taught science at the high school for the past four years. Earlier this year, she was fired from her job.
Central Falls, municipal workers union reach agreement
The city and the union that represents its City Hall and public works employees have reached an agreement on contract concessions, the receiver appointed to run the city's finances said Monday morning.
New Central Falls biology teacher goes home again to Room 132
For David Upegui, it has been a long journey back to Central Falls High School. When school starts Wednesday, Upegui, one of a dozen new teachers at the school, will be precisely where he wants to be - despite the school's reputation as one of the nation's most troubled.
'Here we go'
The key to turning around this city's troubled high school hangs on a wall for everyone to see.
Taxable property values in Central Falls plummet 40 percent
The effort to close the city's $6.3-million budget deficit is being complicated by a new property revaluation that saw the value of the city's taxable real estate drop 40 percent.
Financially strapped Wyatt facility hires Conn.'s top corrections official
The struggling Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility , which has seen a steady drop in its prisoner population this summer, has hired the top Corrections Department official in Connecticut as warden with a $115,000 salary.
Five men arrested in Central Falls prostitution sting
Four men in cars and one on a bicycle were arrested Thursday on charges of trying to pick up prostitutes.
Back-to-school health celebration at Jenks Park
Progreso Latino will hold its annual back-to-school health celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at Jenks Park, 600 Broad St., Central Falls .
Classes begin at schools where learning is hands on
Kayla Benoit sees herself one day working on a cure for a cancer. So, on Thursday, she was back at school and back in a lab coat, readying test tubes and containers in the place she called the "room of something I love to do." The scene: a biomanufacturing-technology classroom and lab at William M. Davies Jr.
Small Rhode Island City Has Big Budget Woes
Central Falls, R.I., is a small city in big financial trouble. Seeing no way out, Central Falls put itself into receivership, the municipal equivalent of bankruptcy.
16-Year-Old Girl Goes Missing on Upper East Side
UPPER EAST SIDE a ' Police were searching Wednesday for a missing Rhode Island girl who was last seen in her aunt's Upper East Side apartment.
Fires break out at 2 apartment buildings in Central Falls
Fire officials are investigating two fires, one Monday night when alarm and sprinkler systems failed in a building, and another Tuesday evening when the safety systems worked as planned.
Rhode Island is One of Ten Winners in Phase 2 of "Race to the Top"
Rhode Island has had a year full of controversy including a firing of all teachers in an underachieving school system Central Falls.
Central Falls fire started when child lit dollhouse
The police say a 4-year-old girl woke up in her family's apartment and somehow got ahold of either matches or a lighter shortly before midnight Monday.
Clash looms with Central Falls' receiver
The City Council voted unanimously Monday night to hire its own lawyer, a possible first step in challenging the powers of the state-appointed receiver who announced 10-percent tax rate increase last week.
User comments
Before things go too far too fast, someone should seriously consider a constitutional challenge to the new law that that allows the state takeover of communities, brushing aside duly elected officials and establishing, essentially, one-man rule.
R.I. opens doors to Teach for America
Earl Edwards defies the stereotype of fledgling educators in the nationally renowned Teach for America program: He is not a child of privilege, nor did he attend an Ivy League school.
DCYF chief unhurt after car stolen at knifepoint
The director of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families found herself the victim of a carjacking Wednesday morning, an incident that led to a police chase in which the suspect tried to escape by running across Route 95.

City Description

Central Falls is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 18,928 at the 2000 census. With an area of only 1.29 square miles, it is the smallest and most densely populated city in the smallest state, and the thirty-second most densely populated incorporated place in the United States. Central Falls takes its name from a waterfall on the nearby Blackstone River. In May 2010, Central Falls went into receivership, essentially declaring bankruptcy. Central Falls is located at 41°53′24″N 71°23′33″W / 41.89°N 71.3925°W / 41.89; -71.3925 (41.889863, -71.392606). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.3 km²), of which, 1.2 square miles (3.1 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (6.20%) is water. Central Falls was the home of Elizabeth Buffum Chace, an abolitionist and conductor in the Underground Railroad. Chace was also the first woman in Rhode Island to be commemorated with a statue in the Rhode Island State House. As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 18,928 people, 6,696 households, and 4,359 families residing in the city. The population density was 15,652.0 people per