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March 27, 2008

Lawmakers to consider gambling, town merger bills

PROVIDENCE -- From 24-hour gambling to creating a supertown coined "Westconnaug," the State House agenda promises another interesting day.

The House Finance Committee is scheduled to hear, and potentially vote on, a bill, sponsored by Rep. William San Bento Jr., D-Pawtucket, North Providence, to allow 24-hour video lottery games at Twin River and Newport Grand. The meeting is slated to begin at the rise of the House of the Represenatives later this afternoon and will be held in State House room 35 -- the Trainor hearing room, according to the agenda.

Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee approved legislation to allow 24-hour gambling on weekends and during overnight hours before state and federal holidays that come on Mondays at Twin River and Newport Grand.

The proposal by Rep. Nicholas Gorham, R-Coventry, to merge several towns into one called Westconnaug is scheduled to come before the House Municipal Government Committee at the rise of the House later this afternoon. The new community would be made up of what are now Exeter, West Greenwich, Scituate, Foster, Glocester, and the part of Coventry known as the Western Coventry Fire District. The meeting has several bills on tap for hearing and/or consideration and is scheduled to be in State House room 205.

Read more about the proposed Westconnaug.
-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with Journal archival reports

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