Archive for November 2019
Kanye West’s LIVE ‘Jesus is King: Sunday Service Experience’
This Sunday, Kanye West will take his newfound spirituality to the Joel Osteen televised service at Lakewood Church in Houston. He will be interviewed at the 11am service by Osteen for approximately 15 minutes and will return later that evening with his full band and choir for a free performance which all tickets were allocated…
Read MoreThe Curtain Raises on A View of Providence – 1808
By David Brussat, Architecture Here and There The Rhode Island Historical Society yesterday displayed its amazing 1809 drop curtain, owned by the society since 1833 and depicting the town as it appeared in 1808, twenty years before the Providence Arcade was built in 1828. It is thought to be the oldest curtain of its kind…
Read MoreOur Top Story of this Week: North Providence to Assume Fire Dispatch for Pawtucket
(Each week we feature the story of the week with the most readers – this week it was the “soft announcement” that North Providence will use their new Public Safety Complex to do fire dispatch for Pawtucket – and they are prepared to do so for 1-2 other cities) “Regionalization is our salvation,” said North…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, Sun, Nov. 17, 2019
By Jack Donnelly The interaction of high pressure anchored over central New England with a tightly wound coastal low pressure system rolling this way off the Hatteras shore will generate substantial northeasterly winds upwards of 30 mph through the day and rain beginning after 7pm. There will be pockets of moderate rain embedded in the…
Read More“In The Arena” with Rep. Charlene Lima & Joe Paolino, Jr., 11/17/19
Each week Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews people of interest on his program, “In The Arena”. The show airs at 7am on Sundays on ABC6. You can also watch it here, commercial free, after 8am on Sundays… This week, Paolino’s guest is Rep. Charlene Lima, D-14th District, Deputy Speaker of the House. They will discuss compassion…
Read MoreWeekend Weather Wrap: Sat/Sun, Nov. 16/17, 2019
By Jack Donnelly A decent start to the weekend with a stormy finish… Saturday 11/16/19: Lots of Sun for the day, maybe a few high thin cirrus, but no threat for precip. High pressure building in strong, so cool northerly winds will be the main story today, gusting towards 30 mph at times through the…
Read MoreA Lively Experiment with Jim Hummel, Nov. 16, 2019
This week’s Lively Experiment features, with Jim Hummel, Executive Director of The Hummel Report, Moderator: Bill Lynch, Former Chairman, R.I. Democratic Party Doreen Costa, Former State Representative Karl Wadensten, Treasurer, R.I. Commerce Corp Board Topics (please note subjects may change) Evergreen Contract Law – leaders of nearly half of the state’s communities join in a lawsuit NYC homeless shipped to R.I.…
Read MoreOcean State Job Lot & Home Depot – a match made in heaven
Hundreds of volunteers and more than 2,500 Home Depot buckets were filled with items donated by the Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation during a massive distribution event held this week in Fall River. Through its partnership with the Massachusetts Military Support Foundation, the items, which range from warm winter jackets, hats, gloves, scarfs, essential…
Read MoreAgency Focus – Help Starts with 2-1-1 at United Way
Three simple numbers, one human connection. 200,000 calls a year in Rhode Island. If you or someone you know needs help, call 2-1-1. Rhode Island’s 2-1-1 program is run by the United Way of RI. It includes The Point, which is a statewide resource network that provides information, referrals, and long-term care options to seniors, adults…
Read MoreDiscover Beautiful Rhode Island – Newport Harbor
by Jason Michalski, photographer This wonderful photo of Newport Harbor captured that sense of winter waiting to come upon us. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a…
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