Barrington school board member charged with vandalism
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BARRINGTON - A lawyer and veteran member of the Barrington School Committee pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of vandalism and malicious injury to property during her arraignment in District Court this afternoon. The police said Amy Page Oberg, 49, of 42 Chapel Rd., appeared to be drunk when she was arrested the evening before Independence Day. Officers went to her house because a Cranston man, John P. O'Malley, had reported that a woman, later identified as Oberg, had smacked his car twice, scratching the paint on his trunk, allegedly because she objected to him having his high beams on as he drove slowly along Annawamscutt Road. "The suspect was intoxicated and had some trouble keeping her balance standing in the doorway while I was speaking with her," according to the report from Ptlm. Wesley McCoy. Oberg declined comment in court today. Magistrate Joseph Ippolito released her on $1,000 personal recognizance. She is due back in court in two weeks. 
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Lawyer ... school board member ... Barrington resident ... drunk driver: perfect.
You can't make this stuff up!
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Elizabeth, I don't see where it says she was driving drunk...
I do see she struck a man's car who was driving slowly around a neighborhood (suspicious behavior?), but it does not say that this was with a car. The vandalism charge makes me think it was with her hand or some object.
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Elizabeth,
You CAN make this stuff up....But one doesn't have to, it's Barrington, after all. Anyone who thinks the kids don't see their parents crocked is nuts.
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It doesn't say she was driving drunk nor was she charged with drunk driving. Seems that she hit the car with her hand or some object, twice.
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If you read the local paper, it said the incident took place on Willow Way, a little narrow deadend at the end of Annawamscutt. If this car was so close to her that she could smack it as it passed, it sure sounds like the driver didn't know the street or really care about all the little kids or families watching fireworks there. Did he get breathalyzed?
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Elizabeth she was not driving, she was walking home from a neighborhood party when this happened. Get your facts correct before you start spreading rumors. This whole thing has been blown WAY out of proportion and it's because of people like you that love to fuel the fire.
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Concerned person, the driver was on their way to a get together that I was at and had not had anything to drink. He was driving 5 miles per hour and turned on his high beams to make sure he could see, as there were a lot of people on the road walking home after watching the fireworks on the beach. Once again, as Caren said, the whole event is getting blown way out of proportion and it's because people love to gossip and start rumors. The media is mostly to blame here. Must have been a very slow news night.
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