Archive for December 2019
“In The Arena” Joe Paolino, Jr., Mayor Donald Grebien & Brett Johnson
“In The Arena” Joe Paolino, Jr., Mayor Donald Grebien & Brett Johnson 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… Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien and Brett Johnson,…
Read MoreA Long Way to Fall, A short story by Michael Fine
A short story, by Michael Fine © Michael Fine 2019 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. First came…
Read MoreCaution: May the Force Be With You
The biggest block buster holiday movie this year will probably be Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Thousands are expected to fill the movie theaters over the next few weeks to see what has been teased as “the last Star Wars movie”. The special effects are dramatic, outdoing most of what has been done before.…
Read MoreTop Story: EMS Crisis by Michael Morse
(This story garnered the most readers of the past week – we present it here once again as our Top Story of the Week – with this story, Michael Morse has now become a contributing writer to RINewsToday): By Michael Morse If somebody had told me before I worked in EMS that mildly ill people,…
Read MoreWeekend Weather Wrap – Sat/Sun, Dec. 14 & 15, 2019:
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Saturday, Dec. 14, 2919: A mature low pressure system rolling through with rain, heavy at times with the outside possibility of an embedded thunderstorm through the evening accompanied by blustery winds out of the south. Flood watches are in effect as we’re expecting between 1 to 3 inches of rain with…
Read MoreFocus Series: Helping Rhode Islanders – Project Undercover
Project Undercover is committed to the idea that every kid has the right to a clean, dry bottom, and the generosity of people like you helps us achieve that. They provide diapers, socks, underwear, and baby wipes to help the approximately 45,000 children throughout Rhode Island living in poverty. Diaper need, or the struggle to…
Read MoreA Lively Experiment with Jim Hummel, Dec. 13, 2019
This week’s Lively Experiment features, with Jim Hummel, Executive Director of The Hummel Report, Moderator: Panel Jim Hummel (Moderator) , Exec. Director, The Hummel Report Donna Perry, Communications Consultant Ed Achorn, Editorial Page Editor, Providence Journal Jim Vincent, President, NAACP, Providence Branch Topics Rhode Island Hospital – Lifespan reports a $35M deficit Pawtucket’s big development proposal Wexford building – still looking…
Read More#BestGiftEver
Every day, the RI Blood Center counts on the community to help provide over 200 units of life-saving blood & blood products to Rhode Islanders and their neighbors. They provide blood throughout the state and regionally for patients being treated at leading hospitals. They run six full time donation centers across Rhode Island. The need…
Read MoreGet Your Holiday(s) On! – Family Free Day at Linden Place, Bristol
Linden Place and the Bristol Art Museum come together on Saturday, December 14, 2019 from 1 pm – 4 pm for their 2nd annual Holiday Family Free Day. Featuring tours of both the mansion and museum, arts & crafts, story time, photos with Santa and a concert, this afternoon of fun is not to be…
Read MoreGriefSpeak: Dirty Laundry
By Dr. Mari Dias I often ask my clients to journal for homework. The following is 45 year- old Thomasina’s journal entry about her rape and the first and only time she told the story. Ironically, she chose to share her story with men incarcerated in a men’s maximum-security prison. She was a high school…
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