Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Main Street grocery shop takes spot eyed by pawnbroker business.
Liberty Market is back on Main Street, a little closer to City Hall at 118 Main St., across the street from its former home in the Commercial Block building. At the Jan. 7 City Council meeting, Councilman Christopher Beauchamp asked Economic Development Director Matt Wojcik about work being done at 118 Main St., the vacant site recently eyed by Spindle City Pawnbrokers. "We try as best we can to fill these spots," said Wojcik, who had earlier noted he was working with Liberty Market's owner, Sheikh Jamil, to relocate the business after it was shut down by fire code violations discovered in the Commercial Block location following a fire there Dec. 3. Wojcik said he was able to put Jamil and the owner of 118 Main St. together, and Jamil …
Friday, December 14, 2012
Chairman Bill Sequino asks Chief Thomas Carey to research Spindle City Pawnbrokers' time in Danvers, MA.
Vincent Mesolella, representing Spindle City Pawnbroker owner Aaron Tetrault, asked the Budget Commission to overturn the City Council's denial of a dealer license for his client last night. Instead, Budget Commission Chairman Bill Sequino suggested Woonsocket Police Chief Thomas Carey should take another look into how the business operated in Danvers, MA, the cause of some concern for Council members during discussion of Spindle City's application Dec. 3. The issue was not on the Budget Commission's agenda. Although the body has largely followed the spirit of RI's Open Meeting Law, it is not bound by it under the Fiscal Stability Act of 2010. Mesolella, hired to prepare the 118 Main St. storefront for the pawnbroker shop, is not a …
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Two break-ins after fire prompts moving stock into storage; building hasn't had heat in two years.
Movers were busy loading Liberty Market's stock onto a box truck parked in front of the 95 Main St. location Tuesday as Asim Jamil and his parents, Sabrina and Sheikh, supervised. The food probably won't be re-stocked on the market's shelves there again. Asim says they're not planning on returning. Sabrina said the building, known as the Commericial Block, hasn't had heat for the last two years. She said the section they rent for Liberty Market needs new wiring. It doesn't have sprinklers, either. The Jamil family decided to move the market's stock into storage after they lost a deli slicer, a computer and "about one of everything," in the market to two break-ins shortly after a fire within the building's walls last Monday. On Dec. 3, …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
About 35 people displaced for the day as crews chase fire through building's walls.
The double-layered walls of Liberty Market are perfect if you're hiding from a tornado, but they make putting out a fire extremely difficult. Woonsocket Firefighters know that second part well after spending six hours putting out a fire at the small corner grocery store at 95 Main St. The fire call came in at about 12:45 p.m., said Deputy Fire Chief Paul Russell, and they were just finishing putting it out at about 7 p.m. as firefighters rolled up hoses for two fire engines and prepared to leave the scene as a single police cruiser blocked the east-bound lane of Main Street. On the west bound side of the street, a crowd of about 20 people watched them clean up the scene. About 35 people who live in the apartments in the mixed-use …
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Adrienne Lee Alvarado
10:06 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Glad jamil is back ill be in to get my chicken salad sandwich with extra banana peppers and lettuce. Its Adriana Alvarado jamil your a wonderful man more ›