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A hearing for a former Westerly School Committee member who allegedly violated a no-contact order and resisted arrest has been postponed to Friday.

Dominic DiFazio resigned from the School Committee in May after pleading no contest to a domestic assault charge. At the time, he was ordered to have no contact with his wife, to get alcohol counseling and to participate in batterer's intervention.

DiFazio was arrested Aug. 4, for violating the no-contact order. He has been scheduled for a violation hearing, violation sentencing, as well as a progress report today in Washington County Superior Court, but the matters are now slated for Friday.

A contractor who specializes in home repair, DiFazio has a one-year suspended sentence on a bad-check charge that could be reinstated.

He also has six months' probation on a felony charge of unlawful appropriation resulting from security deposits that were not refunded after a customer waited two months for work to begin. Both require him to stay out of trouble.

-- Journal archival reports and reports from Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney

 Tags  School Committee Westerly

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