Archive for June 2020
URI closes W. Alton Jones campus programs
The two main buildings that are part of the University of Rhode Island’s W. Alton Jones campus will close for good early next month. URI will shutter the Whispering Pines Conference Center and the Environmental Education Center located on the 2,300-acre campus. Camp staff had recently said that they were ready to open and understood…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today – June 11, 2020
Photo: Reflects signs of the times… an imperfect rainbow… NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL Eighteen states are seeing an increase in Covid case counts, including sharp increases in Arizona, Florida and Texas, according to Covid Exit Strategy. Hospitalizations have been rising rapidly in at least nine states since Memorial Day. The country is rapidly approaching 2 million…
Read MoreLearning about Racism
A variety of resources exist to learn more about racism, and the issues today. So many times we hear advice to listen before you speak, but we’re inclined to say, read and educate yourself before you speak, this time. No issue is more complex, where it should be simple; more divisive when it should be…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, June 11, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Humidity is on the rise in the warm sector in between fronts, southwesterly breezes drawing in warm moist air from the southwest. The cold front that will be advancing from the west will trigger a line of showers and thunderstorms that will come through during the afternoon, best guess between 5…
Read MoreTOP RECIPE with Chef Anthony Salemme: Maryland Crab Cakes
By Anthony Salemme, contributing chef Serves 6 Over 22 years of owning Downcity Food and Cocktails we must had made thousands of pounds of our second most popular dish next to Mom’s Meatloaf. These are easy and delicious. 1 pound lump crab meat 1 Tablespoon butter ½ yellow onion (diced small) 1 clove garlic (…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, June 10, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist A frontal system developing well to our west advances just enough to drive some pesky mid and high cloud cover overhead during the day. No rain expected just yet with this system, but relative humidity will be on the rise making the air feel a bit muggier than the last few…
Read MoreThe Greatest Generation’s Last Hurrah
Editor’s Note: On June 6, 2020, we celebrate the 76th anniversary of D-Day. This article, recognizing America’s Greatest Generation who valiantly fought in World War II, was initially published in the Pawtucket Times on November 15, 2014. By Herb Weiss The G.I. Generation, born between 1901 to 1924, (coined the “The Greatest Generation” by nationally acclaimed journalist Tom Brokaw),…
Read MoreTHE EMPTY STOOP – Jim Raftus
by Jim Raftus Today June 4th, 2020, as I write this, for the first time in over thirty years there was no Providence Journal delivered to my doorstep. Yesterday I cancelled my print edition and activated a digital only subscription. To describe me as a life-long newspaper junkie would be accurate. My early addictions were…
Read More3 Rules to Live by When Choosing Your Next Home
By Emilio DiSpirito www.DiSpiritoTeam.com Realtor | Team Leader of DiSpirito Team with HomeSmart Professionals Real estate is like a marriage. You better love it because if you don’t, there is hell to pay when you split. Especially too soon… Here are 3 rules you need to live by when selecting your next home. Don’t drop the…
Read MoreIf it’s Wednesday, it’s Sour Grapes!
by Tim Jones, cartoonist Tim Jones is the creator, artist and writer of the widely popular, self-syndicated comic strip, “Sour Grapes” – a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world. Sour Grapes is currently published in multiple newspapers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California…
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