RHODE ISLAND
Valley Breeze
By MELANIE THIBEAULT, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
SMITHFIELD – Now that they’ve been approved for a special use permit from the town’s zoning board, officials from the Legion of Christ will transition the facilities at 60 Austin Ave. from Mater Ecclesiae College to a boarding school for 6th- through 9th-grade girls called Overbrook Academy.
The school, which will be located on 44 acres in Greenville, is set to open in the fall.
The permit was approved by Zoning Board of Review members at their Feb. 25 meeting and will allow the Legion to run the boarding school in a planned development district.
Zoning board Chairman George McKinnon told The Valley Breeze & Observer that officials from the Legion of Christ did not mention making any changes to the facilities.
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