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Warwick (/ ˈ w ɒr ɪ k / WORR-ik or / ˈ w ɔːr w ɪ k / WOR-wik [5]) is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States, and is the third-largest city in the state, with a population of 82,823 at the 2020 census.
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A tax collector at work – from an illustration by Henry Holiday in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). A tax collector (also called a taxman) is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations on behalf of a government. The term could also be applied to those who audit tax returns or work for a revenue agency.
Scott Avedisian (born January 16, 1965) [1] is an American politician and the former Republican mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, the third largest city in the state after Providence and Cranston. [2] Avedisian represented Ward 1 in the Warwick City Council from 1990 to 2000, being reelected four times.
On the grounds is the city's World War I memorial, dedicated in 1919 and designed by Warwick sculptor John G. Hardy, [2] who was also commissioned for memorials in North Providence as well as in Templeton, Massachusetts. [7] After falling into a period of decline, City Hall was restored beginning in the 1980s.
In the early 1900s there was great interest in Warwick to illuminate the streets with Narragansett Electric provided street lighting paid for by the town through tax revenues. In 1903 the Buttonwood Beach Association petitioned the Town Council to provide such street lighting.
It was originally a village in the Warwick Township of Kent County.It can be called an exclave, since there is no overland connection to the rest of the city of Warwick.. Potowomut is often mistakenly thought to be part of the Town of East Greenwich because it shares the same ZIP code, 02818, as all of East Greenwich and because East Greenwich is the preferred place name for postal purpos
The Water Division employees were questioned by the city human resources director and Department of Public Works director, with the division foreman receiving a 10-day suspension without pay.